Garen vs Lux
How to Beat Lux as Garen
based on 14,015 Garen vs Lux matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Lux Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Lux Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lux as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Lux
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 Lux
When retreating with low health, be prepared to dodge Lux's Final Spark, a red targeting beam fires prior to the main beam, so try to move to the side if possible.
Lux has powerful zone control abilities. Try to spread out and attack from different directions so she cannot lock down a specific area.
Garen vs Lux Counter Stats
How to Counter Lux with Garen in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some vital Garen against Lux matchup statistics that may help us figure out the distinctions between the two. Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lux’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Lux..
Garen often has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Lux. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Lux
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Who is Better, Garen or Lux?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Garen usually fairs equally well when taking on Lux, with a 49.2% win rate. Therefore, Garen makes an ok counter to Lux.
While Garen does have a lower win rate compared to Lux, when they face off with one another, Garen also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Garen into Lux.
Additionally, Garen has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lux. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Garen vs Lux matchups, Lux is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Garen is a somewhat poor counter for Lux. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Garen against Lux.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Garen to counter Lux during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen typically accumulates more CS compared to Lux. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Garen versus Lux build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Force of Nature. When Garen included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Lux than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 49.2% when playing against Lux with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Lux as Garen, Garen players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Garen vs Lux counter picks, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.2% winrate overall.
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