Garen vs Talon
How to Beat Talon as Garen
based on 2,733 Garen vs Talon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Talon Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Talon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Talon as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Talon
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 Talon
Talon is heavily reliant on Shadow Assault to escape a fight. When it is down he's significantly more vulnerable.
Talon has unrivaled roaming ability. Make sure to keep track of his position or force him to stay in lane by pushing aggressively.
Talon's attacks are all physical damage. Build armor early to counter his burst damage.
Garen vs Talon Counter Stats
How to Counter Talon with Garen in LoL
The stats shown here show several important Garen versus Talon counter stats that can help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Talon’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Talon..
Garen usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he takes more damage than Talon. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Garen and Talon
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Who is Better, Garen or Talon?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Garen usually fairs equally well when facing off against Talon, with a 49.5% win rate. Thus, Garen makes an ok counter to Talon.
While Garen does have a lower winrate than Talon, when they face off with one another, Garen also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Garen into Talon.
Furthermore, Garen has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Talon. 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 one best champion in League of Legends, in Garen vs Talon matchups, Talon is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Garen is a somewhat poor counter to Talon. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Garen against Talon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Garen to counter Talon during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen most often racks up a similar amount of CS as Talon. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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 need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Garen versus Talon build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Talon than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 49.5% when playing against Talon with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Talon as Garen, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Garen vs Talon fights, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.5% win rate overall.
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