Nasus vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Nasus
based on 4,499 Nasus vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Garen
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
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.
Nasus vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Nasus in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some critical Nasus against Garen counter stats that can help you grasp the differences between the pair. For instance, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Garen..
Nasus typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Garen. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nasus and Garen
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Who is Better, Nasus or Garen?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nasus usually loses when facing off against Garen, with a 48.8% win rate. Therefore, Nasus makes a poor counter for Garen.
While Nasus does have a lower winrate than Garen, when they face off with one another, Nasus also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Nasus into Garen.
Furthermore, Nasus also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Nasus is a somewhat poor counter for Garen. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nasus against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nasus in order to counter Garen during both the lane 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 suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus most often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Garen. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They 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 need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Nasus versus Garen build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs. Garen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nasus had an average win rate of 48.8% battling Garen with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Garen as Nasus, Nasus players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Nasus vs Garen counters, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.8% winrate overall.
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