Kog'Maw vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Kog'Maw
based on 1,086 Kog'Maw vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kog'Maw vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw against Garen
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
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.
Kog'Maw vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Kog'Maw in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several significant Kog'Maw against Garen matchup stats that may help you explain the differences between the pair. As an example, Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kog'Maw may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Garen..
Kog'Maw usually has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Garen. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kog'Maw and Garen
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Who is Better, Kog'Maw or Garen?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kog'Maw usually fairs equally well when facing off against Garen, with a 50.2% win rate. Therefore, Kog'Maw makes an ok counter to Garen.
While Kog'Maw does have a higher winrate compared to Garen, when facing one another, Kog'Maw also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Kog'Maw into Garen.
Furthermore, Kog'Maw 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 facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kog'Maw vs Garen matchups, Kog'Maw is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Kog'Maw is a decent counter to Garen. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Kog'Maw against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kog'Maw to counter Garen during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kog'Maw often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Garen. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling 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 situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Kog'Maw versus Garen build consist of Wit's End, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kog'Maw incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Garen than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Kog'Maw boasted an average win rate of 50.2% battling Garen with this counter build.
To have the best probability of beating Garen as Kog'Maw, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Kog'Maw vs Garen matchups, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.2% win rate overall.
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