Kalista vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Kalista
based on 1,166 Kalista vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kalista vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Kalista vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Kalista
Tips for Playing as Kalista against Garen
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
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.
Kalista vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Kalista in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some valuable Kalista versus Garen counter statistics that may help you realize the differences between the two. For instance, Kalista’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kalista may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Garen..
Kalista usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes less damage than Garen. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kalista and Garen
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Who is Better, Kalista or Garen?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kalista usually loses when taking on Garen, with a 48.4% win rate. As a result, Kalista makes a bad counter to Garen.
While Kalista does have a lower winrate compared to Garen, when they face off with one another, Kalista also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Kalista into Garenas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kalista also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kalista vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Kalista is a somewhat poor counter for Garen. Focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Kalista against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kalista in order to counter Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kalista on average accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Garen. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Kalista versus Garen build include Wit's End, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kalista included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better versus Garen than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Kalista boasted an average win rate of 48.4% battling Garen with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Garen as Kalista, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Kalista vs Garen clashes, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.4% winrate overall.
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