Soraka vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Soraka
based on 3,103 Soraka vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Soraka vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Soraka vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Soraka
Tips for Playing as Soraka against Garen
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
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.
Soraka vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Soraka in LoL
The stats provided here feature some strategic Soraka versus Garen matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Soraka’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Soraka may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Garen. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Soraka usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives less damage than Garen. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Soraka and Garen
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Who is Better, Soraka or Garen?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Soraka usually wins when playing against Garen, with a 51.0% win rate. Therefore, Soraka makes a good counter to Garen.
While Soraka does have a higher win rate compared to Garen, when facing one another, Soraka also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Soraka into Garen.
Furthermore, Soraka also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Soraka vs Garen matchups, Soraka is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Soraka is a decent counter for Garen. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Soraka against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Soraka to counter Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Soraka most often gets a lot less CS as Garen. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Soraka versus Garen build include Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Dream Maker. When Soraka bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs. Garen than with most other common builds. In fact, Soraka boasted an average winrate of 51.0% battling Garen with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Garen as Soraka, Soraka players should equip the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Revitalize, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Soraka vs Garen matchups, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.0% win rate overall.
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