Garen vs Yasuo
How to Beat Yasuo as Garen
based on 9,936 Garen vs Yasuo matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Yasuo Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Yasuo as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Yasuo
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 Yasuo
Yasuo's shield from Resolve lasts only 2 seconds. Dealing damage to him will trigger it. Wait it out, then engage.
Steel Tempest is very narrow. Dodge laterally if possible.
Yasuo is at his weakest just after he has launched a whirlwind. Engage at that point.
When Yasuo lands two Steel Tempests in a row, his next will fire a tornado. Watch and listen for the associated sound to prepare to dodge.
Garen vs Yasuo Counter Stats
How to Counter Yasuo with Garen in LoL
The stats provided here feature some critical Garen vs. Yasuo counter statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between the two. As an example, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Yasuo’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Yasuo..
Garen normally has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Yasuo. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Yasuo
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Who is Better, Garen or Yasuo?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Garen usually loses when playing against Yasuo, with a 48.1% win rate. As a result, Garen makes a poor counter to Yasuo.
While Garen does have a lower win rate compared to Yasuo, when they face off with one another, Garen also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Garen into Yasuo.
Additionally, Garen also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yasuo. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Garen vs Yasuo matchups, Yasuo is the better champion with a lower 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 Yasuo. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Garen against Yasuo.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Garen in order to counter Yasuo during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen often gets a similar amount of CS as Yasuo. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well 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 case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Garen versus Yasuo build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Sundered Sky. When Garen bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Yasuo than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 48.1% when countering Yasuo with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing Yasuo as Garen, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Garen vs Yasuo battles, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.1% win rate overall.
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