Katarina vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Katarina
based on 4,712 Katarina vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Garen
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Katarina in LoL
The stats provided here show several vital Katarina against Garen counter stats that can help us realize the differences between the two. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s ratio of NaN, showing that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Garen..
Katarina normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she receives less damage than Garen. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Garen
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Who is Better, Katarina or Garen?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Katarina usually loses when playing against Garen, with a 48.7% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes a poor counter to Garen.
While Katarina does have a lower winrate compared to Garen, when on opposite teams, Katarina also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Garenas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter for Garen. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to counter Garen during both the laning 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 stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina on average gets a similar amount of CS as Garen. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Katarina versus Garen build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Katarina combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Garen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 48.7% battling Garen with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Garen as Katarina, Katarina players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Katarina vs Garen clashes, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.7% win rate overall.
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