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How to Win Garen vs Mordekaiser Counter MatchupGaren is in the b tier of champions

Garen vs Mordekaiser

How to Beat Mordekaiser as Garen in LoLGaren is in the s tier of champions
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How to Beat Mordekaiser as Garen

based on 10,421 Garen vs Mordekaiser matchups
Win Rate
43.5 %
K/D/A
1.71
Pick Rate
7.7 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

At MOBA Champion, we summarize millions of recently ranked League games each week. Within our database, Garen battled Mordekaiser in 10421 matches. With so many games with Garen vs Mordekaiser gives us a lot of faith in our capacity to prepare actionable stats and a solid build to counter your opponent. This matchup is fairly uncommon. Garen encounters Mordekaiser in only 7.7% of his matches.

Garen vs Mordekaiser Matchup Summary

Unfortunately, Garen does a pathetic job of countering Mordekaiser. On average, he wins a lowly 43.5% of the time the champions face off with one another in. In Garen against Mordekaiser matches, Garen’s team is 0.1% more likely to earn first blood, indicating that he probably will be able to get first blood versus Mordekaiser.

Best Garen vs Mordekaiser Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's BladeHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Berserker's GreavesPhage

Core Garen Items

~22 Mins
Sterak's GageBlack CleaverTrinity Force

Optional Items

Maw of MalmortiusMortal ReminderKaenic RookernSpear of Shojin

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerdot summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Garen to level upe
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Second ability for Garen to level upq
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Last skill for Garen to max outw

Runes

SorceryPhase RushNimbus CloakCelerityGathering Storm
ResolveDemolishSecond Wind
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceMagic Resist
Garen's passive ability p
Garen's q ability q
Garen's w ability w
Garen's e ability e
Garen's ultimate ability r
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Q
2
E
3
W
4
E
5
E
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R
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E
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Q
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Guide to Countering Mordekaiser as Garen

Tips for Playing as Garen against Mordekaiser

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 Mordekaiser

Mordekaiser builds up a powerful damage aura when fighting champions, so keep your distance.

Realm of Death will cut you off from your teammates completely. Try to save mobility spells to escape Mordekaiser once inside

Damage he deals can be converted into a large shield, and consumed for health

Garen vs Mordekaiser Counter Stats

Garen Image
Win Rate
43.5 %
VS
Win Rate
56.5 %
Mordekaiser Image
5.6
< Kills >
7.3
5.6
< Deaths >
5.6
4
< Assists >
4.7
1.27
< Killing Sprees >
1.66
169
< Minions Killed >
162
0.11
< Dragons Killed >
0.2
0.52
< Inhibitors >
0.49
13,624
< Physical Damage >
2,979
182
< Magic Damage >
21,535
4,496
< True Damage >
635
18,302
< Damage Dealt >
25,149
31,533
< Damage Taken >
31,382
11,726
< Gold Earned >
12,125
2.48
< Towers >
2.19
0.02
< Baron Takedowns >
0.06
3,150
< Total Healing >
9,355
14,990
< Experience >
15,527
17
< Vision Score >
17
8
< Wards Placed >
8
135
< Time Dealing CC >
265

How to Counter Mordekaiser with Garen in LoL

The stats provided here clarify some important Garen versus Mordekaiser matchup stats that can help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Mordekaiser’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Mordekaiser..

Garen usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Mordekaiser. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.

Differences between Garen and Mordekaiser

Damage Types Compared

Garen
Mordekaiser
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Garen
Mordekaiser

Who is Better, Garen or Mordekaiser?

Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Garen usually loses when playing against Mordekaiser, with a 43.5% win rate. As a result, Garen makes a bad counter to Mordekaiser.

While Garen does have a much lower winrate compared to Mordekaiser, when they face off with one another, Garen also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Garen into Mordekaiser.

Additionally, Garen also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Mordekaiser. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.

While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Garen vs Mordekaiser matchups, Mordekaiser is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.

Garen is a trash counter for Mordekaiser. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Garen against Mordekaiser.

Other Champion Matchups Against Garen

Garen Loses Against

LilliaLillia43% winrateMordekaiserMordekaiser43.5% winrateKayleKayle44.1% winrateTrundleTrundle44.7% winrate

Garen Wins Against

YuumiYuumi56.1% winrateNidaleeNidalee54.9% winrateK'SanteK'Sante53.3% winrateEzrealEzreal53.2% winrate

Top Synergies by Role

BrandBrand+ 52.5% 8964 GamesNilahNilah+ 52.5% 1991 GamesKledKled+ 53.8% 262 GamesLilliaLillia+ 54.9% 7886 Games

Additional Information for Garen Players

How We Calculated Our Garen vs Mordekaiser Build and Stats

For this guide on countering Mordekaiser as Garen, we analyzed 10,421 matchups from recent LoL games. We use rigorous data cleaning and processing methods to ensure that our counter stats are of the highest quality. You can rest assured that the recommended build to counter Mordekaiser as Garen comes from real data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view the most relevant stats and items to your rank.

Other Useful Resources

Garen Build Mordekaiser Build

Further Insights to Win this Matchup

If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to counter Mordekaiser during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.

Garen usually racks up a similar amount of CS as Mordekaiser. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well 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 situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.

The top items to focus on in your Garen versus Mordekaiser build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Garen incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Mordekaiser than with most other common item sets. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 43.5% when countering Mordekaiser with this counter build.

To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Mordekaiser as Garen, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Demolish, and Second Wind runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Garen vs Mordekaiser battles, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 43.5% winrate overall.

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