Rengar vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Rengar
based on 4,254 Rengar vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rengar vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Rengar vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Rengar
Tips for Playing as Rengar against Garen
Make sure to take paths through brush when chasing opponents to take advantage of Rengar's passive.
Use Rengar's ultimate to find and assassinate high priority targets in team fights and skirmishes.
A lot of Rengar's power comes from empowered abilities he uses at the right moment - choose wisely!
Advice to Win Against Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Rengar vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Rengar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several significant Rengar against Garen matchup stats that may help us explain the differences and similarities between these two champions. Rengar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Rengar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Garen. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in deaths.
Rengar normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Garen. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Rengar and Garen
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Who is Better, Rengar or Garen?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Rengar usually fairs equally well when taking on Garen, with a 49.2% win rate. Therefore, Rengar makes an ok counter for Garen.
While Rengar does have a lower win rate compared to Garen, when they face off with one another, Rengar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Rengar into Garenas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Rengar also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Rengar vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Rengar is a somewhat poor counter for Garen. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Rengar against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Rengar in order to counter Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rengar often racks up a lot less CS relative to Garen. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Rengar versus Garen build include Axiom Arc, Hubris, and Profane Hydra. When Rengar included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs Garen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rengar had an average win rate of 49.2% when playing against Garen with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Garen as Rengar, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Rengar vs Garen counter picks, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.2% winrate overall.
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