Caitlyn vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Caitlyn
based on 13,723 Caitlyn vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Caitlyn vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Caitlyn vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn against Garen
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Caitlyn in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several significant Caitlyn versus Garen matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Caitlyn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Caitlyn may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Garen..
Caitlyn normally has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Typically, she receives less damage than Garen. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Caitlyn and Garen
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Who is Better, Caitlyn or Garen?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Caitlyn usually fairs equally well when facing off against Garen, with a 50.4% win rate. Thus, Caitlyn makes an ok counter to Garen.
While Caitlyn does have a higher win rate than Garen, when on opposite teams, Caitlyn also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Caitlyn into Garen.
Moreover, Caitlyn also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Caitlyn vs Garen matchups, Caitlyn is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Caitlyn is a decent counter for Garen. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Caitlyn against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Caitlyn to counter Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Caitlyn typically accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Garen. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Caitlyn versus Garen build consist of Bloodthirster, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Caitlyn included at least these three items in her build, she did much better when facing Garen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Caitlyn had an average win rate of 50.4% when playing against Garen with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Garen as Caitlyn, Caitlyn players should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Caitlyn vs Garen counterpicks, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.4% winrate overall.
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