Garen vs Neeko
How to Beat Neeko as Garen
based on 3,988 Garen vs Neeko matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Neeko Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Neeko Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Neeko as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Neeko
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 Neeko
Pop Blossom's warning visuals are invisible if Neeko is disguised.
Standing behind minions against Neeko is very dangerous as Tangle-Barbs become stronger.
Garen vs Neeko Counter Stats
How to Counter Neeko with Garen in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some critical Garen versus Neeko counter stats that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Neeko’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Neeko..
Garen normally has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Neeko. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Neeko
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Who is Better, Garen or Neeko?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Garen usually fairs equally well when taking on Neeko, with a 49.7% win rate. Thus, Garen makes an ok counter to Neeko.
While Garen does have a lower win rate than Neeko, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Garen into Neeko.
Additionally, Garen also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Neeko. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Garen vs Neeko matchups, Neeko is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Garen is a somewhat poor counter to Neeko. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Garen against Neeko.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Garen to counter Neeko during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen on average gets more CS as Neeko. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Garen versus Neeko build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs. Neeko than with most other common item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 49.7% battling Neeko with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Neeko as Garen, you should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Garen vs Neeko matchups, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.7% win rate overall.
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