Naafiri vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Naafiri
based on 1,847 Naafiri vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Naafiri vs Garen Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Garen as Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Naafiri against Garen
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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.
Naafiri vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Naafiri in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several strategic Naafiri versus Garen counter statistics that can help you understand the distinctions between the two. For instance, Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Garen..
Naafiri usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their matchup does. Commonly, they takes less damage than Garen. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Naafiri or Garen?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Naafiri usually wins when taking on Garen, with a 52.2% win rate. Thus, Naafiri makes a good counter for Garen.
While Naafiri does have a higher winrate compared to Garen, when facing one another, Naafiri also has a lower difficulty level that makes them a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Naafiri into Garen.
Moreover, Naafiri also has some 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs Garen matchups, Naafiri is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Naafiri is an above average counter to Garen. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Naafiri against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri in order to counter Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Garen. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Naafiri versus Garen build include Hubris, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Naafiri used at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better vs. Garen than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Naafiri boasted an average win rate of 52.2% battling Garen with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Garen as Naafiri, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Naafiri vs Garen counterpicks, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.2% winrate overall.
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