Lux vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Lux
based on 14,015 Lux vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lux vs Garen Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Garen as Lux
Tips for Playing as Lux against Garen
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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.
Lux vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Lux in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several strategic Lux vs. Garen counter stats that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Lux’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Lux may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Garen. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Lux usually has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Garen. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lux and Garen
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Who is Better, Lux or Garen?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lux usually fairs equally well when playing against Garen, with a 50.8% win rate. Therefore, Lux makes an ok counter for Garen.
While Lux does have a higher win rate than Garen, when on opposite teams, Lux also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Lux into Garen.
Furthermore, Lux also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lux vs Garen matchups, Lux is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Lux is a decent counter for Garen. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Lux against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lux to counter Garen during both the early game 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 mind the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lux most often gets less CS compared to Garen. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically 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 skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Lux versus Garen build include Cryptbloom, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Lux included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Garen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Lux had an average win rate of 50.8% when playing against Garen with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Garen as Lux, Lux players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Lux vs Garen face-offs, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.8% winrate overall.
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