Garen vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Garen
based on 8,159 Garen vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Akali
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 Akali
Akali's Five Point Strike is powerful when used at maximum range and energy. Engage on her when she has low energy to maximize your chance of winning trades.
Return to base if your Health is low and Akali has her ultimate available.
Akali can still be hit by area effect spells while obscured inside Twilight Shroud. Doing so will briefly reveal her position.
Garen vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Garen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some influential Garen versus Akali matchup stats that can help you figure out the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Akali’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Akali..
Garen often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he receives more damage than Akali. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Akali
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Who is Better, Garen or Akali?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Garen usually fairs equally well when taking on Akali, with a 50.3% win rate. Therefore, Garen makes an ok counter to Akali.
While Garen does have a higher winrate compared to Akali, when they face off with one another, Garen also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Garen into Akali.
Additionally, Garen also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Akali. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Garen vs Akali matchups, Garen is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Garen is a decent counter for Akali. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Garen against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to counter Akali during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Akali. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Garen versus Akali build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Hullbreaker. When Garen used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Akali than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 50.3% when playing against Akali with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Akali as Garen, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Celerity runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Garen vs Akali face-offs, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.3% winrate overall.
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