Garen vs Malphite
How to Beat Malphite as Garen
based on 4,996 Garen vs Malphite matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Malphite Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Malphite Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malphite as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Malphite
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 Malphite
If you're a physical damage character stay behind your allies when fighting Malphite. Ground Slam can significantly reduce your damage output.
Malphite is one of a couple tanks who are capable of jungling. Watch out if he gets Smite.
Garen vs Malphite Counter Stats
How to Counter Malphite with Garen in LoL
The stats provided here show several influential Garen against Malphite matchup stats that can help you understand the differences between the pair. As an example, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Malphite’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Malphite..
Garen normally has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Malphite. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Malphite
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Who is Better, Garen or Malphite?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Garen usually fairs equally well when facing off against Malphite, with a 49.1% win rate. As a result, Garen makes an ok counter for Malphite.
While Garen does have a lower winrate compared to Malphite, when they face off with one another, Garen also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Garen into Malphite.
Additionally, Garen has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Malphite. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Garen vs Malphite matchups, Malphite is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Garen is a somewhat poor counter to Malphite. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Garen against Malphite.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Garen in order to counter Malphite during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen on average picks up a similar amount of CS as Malphite. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need 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 a lot 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 top items to focus on in your Garen versus Malphite build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Stridebreaker. When Garen included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better countering Malphite than with many other typical builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 49.1% battling Malphite with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Malphite as Garen, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Garen vs Malphite counters, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.1% win rate overall.
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