Garen vs Aatrox
How to Beat Aatrox as Garen
based on 6,081 Garen vs Aatrox matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Aatrox Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Aatrox Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aatrox as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Aatrox
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Advice to Win Against Aatrox
Aatrox's Infernal Chains are easier to exit when running towards the sides or at Aatrox.
Aatrox's attacks are very telegraphed, so use the time to dodge the hit zones.
Keep your distance when Aatrox uses his Ultimate to prevent him from reviving.
Garen vs Aatrox Counter Stats
How to Counter Aatrox with Garen in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several strategic Garen versus Aatrox counter statistics that can help you realize the differences between the pair. As an example, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aatrox’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Aatrox..
Garen normally has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Typically, he receives less damage than Aatrox. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Garen and Aatrox
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Who is Better, Garen or Aatrox?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Garen usually fairs equally well when facing off against Aatrox, with a 49.3% win rate. As a result, Garen makes an ok counter to Aatrox.
While Garen does have a lower win rate than Aatrox, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Garen into Aatrox.
Moreover, Garen also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aatrox. This 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 Garen vs Aatrox matchups, Aatrox 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 teamfights.
Garen is a somewhat poor counter for Aatrox. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Garen against Aatrox.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Garen in order to counter Aatrox during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Aatrox. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Garen versus Aatrox build include Trinity Force, Stridebreaker, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Garen used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Aatrox than with many other typical builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 49.3% when playing against Aatrox with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Aatrox as Garen, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Garen vs Aatrox fights, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.3% win rate overall.
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