Garen vs LeBlanc
How to Beat LeBlanc as Garen
based on 1,996 Garen vs LeBlanc matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs LeBlanc Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs LeBlanc Counter Build
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Guide to Countering LeBlanc as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against LeBlanc
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 LeBlanc
LeBlanc's ultimate can create fake LeBlancs during her spellcast or, rarely, at a distant position.
The fake LeBlanc created at a distance will always run at the nearest Champion, cast a harmless spell, then immediately disappear.
Attacking LeBlanc first avoids most of her tricks, especially if she's recently used her dash, Distortion.
Stunning or silencing LeBlanc will prevent her from activating the return part of Distortion.
Garen vs LeBlanc Counter Stats
How to Counter LeBlanc with Garen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several critical Garen against LeBlanc matchup stats that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than LeBlanc’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than LeBlanc..
Garen typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he takes more damage than LeBlanc. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and LeBlanc
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Who is Better, Garen or LeBlanc?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Garen usually fairs equally well when playing against LeBlanc, with a 50.4% win rate. As a result, Garen makes an ok counter to LeBlanc.
While Garen does have a higher winrate than LeBlanc, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Garen into LeBlanc.
Additionally, Garen has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to LeBlanc. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Garen vs LeBlanc matchups, Garen is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Garen is a decent counter for LeBlanc. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Garen against LeBlanc.
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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 LeBlanc during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen most often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to LeBlanc. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Garen versus LeBlanc build include Hullbreaker, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs. LeBlanc than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 50.4% when countering LeBlanc with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating LeBlanc as Garen, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Garen vs LeBlanc clashes, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat LeBlanc as Garen are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.