Udyr vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Udyr
based on 4,107 Udyr vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Udyr vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Udyr vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Udyr
Tips for Playing as Udyr against Garen
Udyr is one of the best junglers in the game. Taking advantage of this can give your team a large XP advantage and map control.
Damage is applied to turtle shield post-mitigation. Therefore, buying defensive items can drastically increase your survivability.
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.
Udyr vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Udyr in LoL
The stats shown here feature some important Udyr vs. Garen matchup statistics that may help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Udyr’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Garen’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Udyr may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Garen..
Udyr often has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Garen. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Udyr and Garen
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Who is Better, Udyr or Garen?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Udyr usually wins when facing off against Garen, with a 52.9% win rate. As a result, Udyr makes a good counter for Garen.
While Udyr does have a higher winrate than Garen, when they face off with one another, Udyr also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to learn. You should be be fine when picking Udyr into Garenas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Udyr has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Udyr vs Garen matchups, Udyr is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Udyr is an above average counter to Garen. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Udyr against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Udyr to counter Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Udyr often accumulates less CS relative to Garen. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Udyr versus Garen build include Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Hullbreaker. When Udyr included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Garen than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Udyr boasted an average win rate of 52.9% when countering Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating Garen as Udyr, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Biscuit Delivery, and Approach Velocity runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Udyr vs Garen fights, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.9% win rate overall.
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