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Garen vs Nunu & Willump

How to Beat Nunu & Willump as Garen in LoLGaren is in the b tier of champions
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How to Beat Nunu & Willump as Garen

based on 3,200 Garen vs Nunu & Willump matchups
Win Rate
52.4 %
K/D/A
1.92
Pick Rate
2.4 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

We get our counter statistics from the millions of recently ranked LoL games that we evaluate each and every week. Our guide on how to beat Nunu & Willump as Garen came out of an evaluation of 3200 ranked games where both champions clashed against each other. This matchup is somewhat rare. Garen has to counter Nunu & Willump in only 2.4% of his rounds.

Garen vs Nunu & Willump Matchup Summary

Garen has done a good job of beating Nunu & Willump. On average, he wins a terrific 52.4% of the time the champs clash against each other in. In Garen versus Nunu & Willump matches, Garen’s team is 0.1% less likely to earn first blood. This implies that he most likely won't get first blood against Nunu & Willump.

Best Garen vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's BladeHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Long SwordBerserker's Greaves

Core Garen Items

~22 Mins
Trinity ForceHullbreakerStridebreaker

Optional Items

Phantom DancerBlack CleaverTitanic HydraSterak's Gage

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerteleport summoner spell F

Skill Order

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

Runes

PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: TenacityLast Stand
ResolveConditioningOvergrowth
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceHealth Scaling
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
6
R
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E
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Guide to Countering Nunu & Willump as Garen

Tips for Playing as Garen against Nunu & Willump

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 Nunu & Willump

Interrupting the charge up on Absolute Zero will lower the amount of damage your team takes.

Using Summoner Flash is a surefire way to escape Absolute Zero.

Biggest Snowball Ever moves very fast but cannot turn as quickly, so don't try to escape it by running away in a straight line. Instead, make sudden, sharp turns.

Garen vs Nunu & Willump Counter Stats

Garen Image
Win Rate
52.4 %
VS
Win Rate
47.6 %
Nunu & Willump Image
5.9
< Kills >
5.1
5.2
< Deaths >
6.5
4.1
< Assists >
10.8
1.37
< Killing Sprees >
1.16
171
< Minions Killed >
31
0.11
< Dragons Killed >
1.53
0.58
< Inhibitors >
0.39
14,079
< Physical Damage >
1,088
197
< Magic Damage >
12,937
4,543
< True Damage >
856
18,819
< Damage Dealt >
14,883
30,836
< Damage Taken >
36,461
11,854
< Gold Earned >
10,718
2.76
< Towers >
1.26
0.03
< Baron Takedowns >
0.4
3,079
< Total Healing >
19,562
14,860
< Experience >
12,682
16
< Vision Score >
19
8
< Wards Placed >
6
138
< Time Dealing CC >
444

How to Counter Nunu & Willump with Garen in LoL

The stats shown on this page emphasize some influential Garen against Nunu & Willump counter stats that can help us understand the differences and similarities between the pair. Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nunu & Willump’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nunu & Willump..

Garen normally has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Typically, he takes less damage than Nunu & Willump. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.

Differences between Garen and Nunu & Willump

Damage Types Compared

Garen
Nunu & Willump
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Garen
Nunu & Willump

Who is Better, Garen or Nunu & Willump?

Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Garen usually wins when taking on Nunu & Willump, with a 52.4% win rate. As a result, Garen makes a good counter to Nunu & Willump.

While Garen does have a higher win rate than Nunu & Willump, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Garen into Nunu & Willump.

Furthermore, Garen has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nunu & Willump. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.

While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Garen vs Nunu & Willump matchups, Garen is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.

Garen is a good counter for Nunu & Willump. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Garen against Nunu & Willump.

Additional Information for Garen Players

How We Calculated Our Garen vs Nunu & Willump Build and Stats

For this guide on countering Nunu & Willump as Garen, we analyzed 3,200 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 Nunu & Willump 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.

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Further Insights to Win this Matchup

If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Garen to counter Nunu & Willump during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.

Garen usually gets much more CS relative to Nunu & Willump. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities 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 exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.

The most crucial items to focus on in your Garen versus Nunu & Willump build consist of Trinity Force, Hullbreaker, and Stridebreaker. When Garen bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better against Nunu & Willump than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 52.4% when countering Nunu & Willump with these items in his kit.

To have the best probability of crushing Nunu & Willump as Garen, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Garen vs Nunu & Willump clashes, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.4% winrate overall.

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