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

Garen vs Singed

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

based on 3,174 Garen vs Singed matchups
Win Rate
46.8 %
K/D/A
2.12
Pick Rate
2.3 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

We produce our counter stats from the millions of ranked LoL matches that we analyze each week. This guide on how to beat Singed as Garen resulted from an examination of 3174 ranked matches where both champions faced one another. This particular champion matchup is somewhat rare. Garen has to counter Singed in only 2.3% of his matches.

Garen vs Singed Matchup Summary

Unfortunately, Garen does a awful job of beating Singed. Normally, he wins a lowly 46.8% of games the champs face one another in. In Garen against Singed rounds, Garen’s team is 0.0% more likely to get first blood. This indicates that he most likely will be able to get first blood versus Singed.

Best Garen vs Singed Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Long SwordHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Ruby CrystalBerserker's Greaves

Core Garen Items

~22 Mins
Sterak's GageTrinity ForceDead Man's Plate

Optional Items

Spear of ShojinPhantom DancerTitanic HydraHullbreaker

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
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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Q
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Guide to Countering Singed as Garen

Tips for Playing as Garen against Singed

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 Singed

Keep your distance to avoid being Flung back into Singed's allies.

Singed needs to run close to your team to be effective. Try to take advantage of this by using crowd control effects on him while attacking his allies.

Be careful when chasing Singed. He's very difficult to bring down, and can leave his Poison Trail to damage you in your pursuit.

Garen vs Singed Counter Stats

Garen Image
Win Rate
46.8 %
VS
Win Rate
53.2 %
Singed Image
6.6
< Kills >
4.4
4.9
< Deaths >
6.4
3.8
< Assists >
7.5
1.53
< Killing Sprees >
0.98
197
< Minions Killed >
192
0.12
< Dragons Killed >
0.09
0.64
< Inhibitors >
0.41
15,077
< Physical Damage >
866
179
< Magic Damage >
21,256
5,177
< True Damage >
518
20,434
< Damage Dealt >
22,642
33,075
< Damage Taken >
32,583
12,910
< Gold Earned >
11,797
2.88
< Towers >
1.91
0.02
< Baron Takedowns >
0.02
3,264
< Total Healing >
5,360
15,982
< Experience >
15,597
18
< Vision Score >
18
9
< Wards Placed >
9
154
< Time Dealing CC >
522

How to Counter Singed with Garen in LoL

The stat comparisons shown here underscore some strategic Garen against Singed matchup stats that may help us grasp the distinctions between the two. Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Singed’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Singed..

Garen typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Singed. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.

Differences between Garen and Singed

Damage Types Compared

Garen
Singed
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Garen
Singed

Who is Better, Garen or Singed?

Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Garen usually loses when playing against Singed, with a 46.8% win rate. As a result, Garen makes a poor counter to Singed.

While Garen does have a lower win rate than Singed, when facing one another, Garen also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Garen into Singed.

Moreover, Garen also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Singed. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.

While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Garen vs Singed matchups, Singed is the better champ with a much lower 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 bad counter to Singed. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Garen against Singed.

Additional Information for Garen Players

How We Calculated Our Garen vs Singed Build and Stats

For this guide on countering Singed as Garen, we analyzed 3,174 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 Singed 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 in order to counter Singed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.

Garen on average racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Singed. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions 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 reported here to do well.

The best items to prioritize in your Garen versus Singed build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Singed than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 46.8% when countering Singed with this counter build.

To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Singed as Garen, Garen players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Garen vs Singed battles, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.8% winrate overall.

If you would like to view Garen x Singed tips and counter builds for a a distinct player tier, feel free to select one from the selection menu above. At first, the stats and build suggestions shown are calculated using all games run with these champs.