Garen vs Rammus
How to Beat Rammus as Garen
based on 2,595 Garen vs Rammus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Rammus Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Rammus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rammus as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Rammus
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 Rammus
Rammus often stacks high Armor, leaving him especially vulnerable to caster damage while not in Defensive Ball Curl.
Pay particular attention to when his Defensive Ball Curl is off. Rammus has much lower stats than a normal tank when he's out of the stance.
Garen vs Rammus Counter Stats
How to Counter Rammus with Garen in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some important Garen vs. Rammus matchup stats that may help you realize the distinctions between this pair of champs. For instance, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rammus’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Rammus..
Garen typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Rammus. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Garen and Rammus
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Who is Better, Garen or Rammus?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Garen usually loses when facing off against Rammus, with a 48.3% win rate. As a result, Garen makes a poor counter to Rammus.
While Garen does have a lower win rate than Rammus, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Garen into Rammus.
Moreover, Garen has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rammus. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Garen vs Rammus matchups, Rammus is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Garen is a somewhat poor counter for Rammus. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Garen against Rammus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Garen to counter Rammus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen typically gets much more CS as Rammus. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Garen versus Rammus build include Black Cleaver, Sundered Sky, and Stridebreaker. When Garen included at least these three items in his build, he did much better versus Rammus than with many other common item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 48.3% battling Rammus with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Rammus as Garen, Garen players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Garen vs Rammus counters, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.3% winrate overall.
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