Shen vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Shen
based on 2,473 Shen vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shen vs Garen Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Garen as Shen
Tips for Playing as Shen against Garen
Leverage your Energy to get a long-term advantage over Mana users.
Keep an eye on allies and be ready to save them with your teleport.
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.
Shen vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Shen in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some influential Shen vs. Garen matchup statistics that may help us understand the differences and similarities between this set of champions. As an example, Shen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Garen’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Shen may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Garen. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Shen normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Garen. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Shen or Garen?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Shen usually wins when trying to fight Garen, with a 51.4% win rate. Thus, Shen makes a good counter for Garen.
While Shen does have a higher winrate than Garen, when they face off with one another, Shen also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Shen into Garen.
Additionally, Shen has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Shen vs Garen matchups, Shen is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Shen is a decent counter to Garen. Focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Shen against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Shen to counter Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shen often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Garen. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Shen versus Garen build include Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better against Garen than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Shen boasted an average winrate of 51.4% battling Garen with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Garen as Shen, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Shen vs Garen fights, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.4% winrate overall.
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