Kayle vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Kayle
based on 4,756 Kayle vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Garen Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Garen as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Garen
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
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.
Kayle vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Kayle in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several strategic Kayle vs. Garen counter statistics that can help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Garen..
Kayle often has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. On average, she takes less damage than Garen. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kayle and Garen
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Who is Better, Kayle or Garen?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kayle usually wins when taking on Garen, with a 55.9% win rate. Thus, Kayle makes a fantastic counter for Garen.
While Kayle does have a much higher win rate than Garen, when facing one another, Kayle also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Kayle into Garenas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kayle has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. 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 a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Garen matchups, Kayle is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Kayle is a great counter for Garen. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Kayle against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kayle in order to counter Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Garen. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Kayle versus Garen build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Rylai's Crystal Scepter. When Kayle used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better versus Garen than with most other common builds. In fact, Kayle had an average win rate of 55.9% when countering Garen with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Garen as Kayle, Kayle players should take the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Kayle vs Garen counters, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 55.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Garen as Kayle are given for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.