Aphelios vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Aphelios
based on 2,933 Aphelios vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Garen
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Aphelios in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some critical Aphelios against Garen matchup stats that can help you realize the differences between this set of champions. As an example, Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Garen..
Aphelios often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. On average, he takes less damage than Garen. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Aphelios and Garen
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Garen?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Aphelios usually wins when trying to fight Garen, with a 51.9% win rate. As a result, Aphelios makes a good counter to Garen.
While Aphelios does have a higher win rate compared to Garen, when on opposite teams, Aphelios also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Aphelios into Garenas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Aphelios has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Garen matchups, Aphelios is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Aphelios is a decent counter to Garen. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Aphelios against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios to counter Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios most often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Garen. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Aphelios versus Garen build include Bloodthirster, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Aphelios bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Garen than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average win rate of 51.9% when playing against Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Garen as Aphelios, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Aphelios vs Garen matchups, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.9% winrate overall.
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