Gwen vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Gwen
based on 2,734 Gwen vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gwen vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Gwen vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Gwen
Tips for Playing as Gwen against Garen
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Advice to Win Against Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Gwen vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Gwen in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several critical Gwen vs. Garen counter stats that may help us realize the distinctions between the two. As an example, Gwen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gwen may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Garen..
Gwen typically has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Garen. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gwen and Garen
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Who is Better, Gwen or Garen?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Gwen usually loses when facing off against Garen, with a 47.1% win rate. Thus, Gwen makes a poor counter to Garen.
While Gwen does have a lower win rate than Garen, when on opposite teams, Gwen also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Gwen into Garen.
Furthermore, Gwen also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gwen vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Gwen is a trash counter to Garen. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Gwen against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Gwen to counter Garen 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gwen usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Garen. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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 require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Gwen versus Garen build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Riftmaker. When Gwen incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better against Garen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gwen boasted an average winrate of 47.1% when countering Garen with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Garen as Gwen, Gwen players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Gwen vs Garen counter picks, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.1% win rate overall.
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