Galio vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Galio
based on 3,421 Galio vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Galio vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Galio vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Galio
Tips for Playing as Galio against Garen
You can release Shield of Durand even while crowd controlled.
You can use the minimap ally icons to cast Hero's Entrance.
You can use the step back from Justice Punch to dodge enemy spells.
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.
Galio vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Galio in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some valuable Galio versus Garen counter statistics that can help you realize the differences and similarities between these two champions. Galio’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Galio may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Garen. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Galio often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. On average, he receives less damage than Garen. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Galio and Garen
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Who is Better, Galio or Garen?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Galio usually wins when playing against Garen, with a 51.3% win rate. Therefore, Galio makes a good counter to Garen.
While Galio does have a higher winrate than Garen, when facing one another, Galio also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Galio into Garen.
Moreover, Galio has some amount of CC and other utility, 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 isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Galio vs Garen matchups, Galio is the better champ with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Galio is a decent counter for Garen. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Galio against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Galio in order to counter Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Galio usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Garen. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Galio versus Garen build consist of Cryptbloom, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Galio combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Garen than with most other common item sets. In fact, Galio boasted an average winrate of 51.3% when countering Garen with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Garen as Galio, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Galio vs Garen LoL games, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.3% winrate overall.
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