Poison Trail is very effective at farming and harassing, allowing Singed to dominate the flow of whatever lane he's in.
Flinging enemies into your tower can deal heavy amounts of damage to them.
Use Insanity Potion to trick your opponents into chasing you through your Poison Trail.
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.
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some valuable Singed against Garen counter stats that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. Singed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Singed may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Garen..
Singed usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Garen. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Singed usually wins when facing off against Garen, with a 53.2% win rate. Thus, Singed makes a great counter to Garen.
While Singed does have a higher winrate than Garen, when on opposite teams, Singed also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Singed into Garen.
Moreover, Singed also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Singed vs Garen matchups, Singed is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Singed is a great counter for Garen. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Singed against Garen.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Singed in order to counter Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Singed on average accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Garen. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, 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 have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Singed versus Garen build include Frozen Heart, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Singed combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Garen than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Singed boasted an average win rate of 53.2% when countering Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Garen as Singed, Singed players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Singed vs Garen counters, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.2% win rate overall.
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