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.
The stats shown here emphasize several influential Garen vs. Lillia counter statistics that may help you realize the distinctions between this pair of champions. As an example, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lillia’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Lillia..
Garen often has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Lillia. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Garen usually loses when taking on Lillia, with a 43.0% win rate. As a result, Garen makes a poor counter to Lillia.
While Garen does have a much lower winrate than Lillia, when facing one another, Garen also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Garen into Lillia.
Furthermore, Garen has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lillia. 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Garen vs Lillia matchups, Lillia 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 teamfights.
Garen is a garbage counter to Lillia. Focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Garen against Lillia.
If you would like to truly master Garen to counter Lillia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen most often accumulates much more CS relative to Lillia. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Garen versus Lillia build include Sterak's Gage, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better against Lillia than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 43.0% battling Lillia with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Lillia as Garen, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Celerity runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Garen vs Lillia fights, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 43.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Lillia as Garen are shown for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a specific division, you should use the selection menu located at the top of this page.