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.
Ashe has very few defensive options, and she's a good target to gank.
Be wary of moving around the map alone if Ashe has not recently cast her Enchanted Crystal Arrow.
The stats shown here clarify some significant Garen vs. Ashe matchup statistics that may help us interpret the differences between this pair of champs. Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ashe’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Ashe..
Garen often has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. On average, he takes more damage than Ashe. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Garen usually fairs equally well when playing against Ashe, with a 49.8% win rate. As a result, Garen makes an ok counter for Ashe.
While Garen does have a lower win rate than Ashe, when facing one another, Garen also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Garen into Ashe.
Furthermore, Garen has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ashe. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Garen vs Ashe matchups, Ashe is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Garen is a somewhat poor counter for Ashe. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Garen against Ashe.
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen to counter Ashe during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Ashe. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Garen versus Ashe build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Hullbreaker. When Garen used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when facing Ashe than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 49.8% when countering Ashe with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Ashe as Garen, Garen players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Celerity runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Garen vs Ashe counter picks, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.8% win rate overall.
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