Garen vs Kayle
How to Beat Kayle as Garen
based on 4,756 Garen vs Kayle matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Kayle Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Kayle Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayle as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Kayle
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 Kayle
Kayle starts the game as a weaker melee champion. Try to put her behind before she ascends to her ranged form.
Kayle is usually a fragile target. If you see her ultimate cast on an ally, switch to attacking her.
Divine Judgment only grants Kayle or her allies immunity to damage. Slows and stuns can still be applied, so trap them if they're being overzealous.
Garen vs Kayle Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayle with Garen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some important Garen against Kayle counter statistics that can help us grasp the distinctions between the two. Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kayle’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kayle..
Garen often has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. On average, he takes more damage than Kayle. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Kayle
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Who is Better, Garen or Kayle?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Garen usually loses when facing off against Kayle, with a 44.1% win rate. As a result, Garen makes a poor counter for Kayle.
While Garen does have a much lower winrate compared to Kayle, when they face off with one another, Garen also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Garen into Kayle.
Furthermore, Garen has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kayle. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Garen vs Kayle matchups, Kayle is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Garen is a bad counter for Kayle. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Garen against Kayle.
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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 Kayle during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Kayle. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Garen versus Kayle build consist of Phantom Dancer, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when facing Kayle than with many other typical builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 44.1% when playing against Kayle with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating Kayle as Garen, Garen players 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 sets we have analyed for Garen vs Kayle face-offs, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 44.1% winrate overall.
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