Delaying the activation of Undying Rage is a very effective way to make an enemy champion over-commit to trying to kill you.
If the enemy is stacking Armor, try building items like Last Whisper or Youmuu's Ghostblade.
Bloodlust is an excellent way to heal Tryndamere. Try not to let it fade off before you activate it.
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 on this page underscore several important Tryndamere against Garen matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Tryndamere’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Tryndamere may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Garen..
Tryndamere typically has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. On average, he takes more damage than Garen. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Tryndamere usually wins when trying to fight Garen, with a 53.4% win rate. As a result, Tryndamere makes a great counter for Garen.
While Tryndamere does have a higher winrate than Garen, when they face off with one another, Tryndamere also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn. You should be be fine when picking Tryndamere into Garen.
Furthermore, Tryndamere also has only a small amount 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 Tryndamere vs Garen matchups, Tryndamere is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Tryndamere is a great counter to Garen. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Tryndamere against Garen.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Tryndamere 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 mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tryndamere on average gets a similar amount of CS compared to Garen. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Tryndamere versus Garen build include Phantom Dancer, Statikk Shiv, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Tryndamere combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Garen than with most other common builds. In fact, Tryndamere had an average winrate of 53.4% battling Garen with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Garen as Tryndamere, Tryndamere players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Unflinching, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Tryndamere vs Garen counters, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.4% win rate overall.
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