Leona vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Leona
based on 5,033 Leona vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Garen
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Leona in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some critical Leona versus Garen counter statistics that may help you realize the differences between the two. Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s ratio of NaN, showing that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Garen. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Leona typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Garen. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Leona and Garen
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Who is Better, Leona or Garen?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Leona usually wins when playing against Garen, with a 53.6% win rate. As a result, Leona makes a great counter to Garen.
While Leona does have a higher win rate compared to Garen, when on opposite teams, Leona also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Leona into Garen.
Moreover, Leona has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Leona vs Garen matchups, Leona is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Leona is a great counter to Garen. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Leona against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Leona to counter Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona typically gets a lot less CS relative to Garen. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Leona versus Garen build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Leona combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Garen than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 53.6% when playing against Garen with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Garen as Leona, Leona players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Leona vs Garen face-offs, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Garen as Leona are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.