Garen vs Gragas
How to Beat Gragas as Garen
based on 2,174 Garen vs Gragas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Gragas Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gragas as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Gragas
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 Gragas
Body Slam is on a very low cooldown, making it difficult to pursue Gragas. Don't overextend yourself chasing him.
Gragas can knock everybody away with his ultimate. Be careful that you don't get knocked into him or, worse, an enemy tower.
Garen vs Gragas Counter Stats
How to Counter Gragas with Garen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several vital Garen versus Gragas counter stats that can help us understand the distinctions between the two. As an example, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Gragas’s ratio of NaN, showing that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Gragas..
Garen normally has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Gragas. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Gragas
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Who is Better, Garen or Gragas?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Garen usually wins when trying to fight Gragas, with a 52.6% win rate. Thus, Garen makes a good counter for Gragas.
While Garen does have a higher winrate compared to Gragas, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Garen into Gragas.
Moreover, Garen has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gragas. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Garen vs Gragas matchups, Garen is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Garen is a good counter for Gragas. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Garen against Gragas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Garen to counter Gragas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen usually accumulates more CS as Gragas. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Garen versus Gragas build consist of Trinity Force, Sundered Sky, and Stridebreaker. When Garen combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Gragas than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 52.6% when countering Gragas with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Gragas as Garen, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Garen vs Gragas matchups, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.6% winrate overall.
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