Garen vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Garen
based on 1,495 Garen vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Zilean
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 Zilean
Zilean is fragile if a team focuses on him, but otherwise he's very difficult to kill. Commit to killing him as a team.
If you're able to match Zilean's speed, it can sometimes be beneficial to wait until his ultimate has faded before landing the killing blow.
Garen vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Garen in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some influential Garen versus Zilean matchup statistics that can help you grasp the differences between this set of champions. As an example, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zilean’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Zilean. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Garen often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Zilean. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Zilean
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Who is Better, Garen or Zilean?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Garen usually loses when playing against Zilean, with a 48.0% win rate. As a result, Garen makes a bad counter for Zilean.
While Garen does have a lower winrate compared to Zilean, when they face off with one another, Garen also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Garen into Zilean.
Furthermore, Garen also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zilean. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Zilean matchups, Zilean is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Garen is a terribly counter for Zilean. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Garen against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to counter Zilean 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 pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen typically racks up much more CS as Zilean. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Garen versus Zilean build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs Zilean than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 48.0% when playing against Zilean with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Zilean 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 runes players used for Garen vs Zilean counter picks, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.0% winrate overall.
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