Varus vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Varus
based on 5,289 Varus vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Varus vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Varus vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Varus
Tips for Playing as Varus against Garen
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
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.
Varus vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Varus in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some strategic Varus vs. Garen matchup stats that can help you appreciate the differences between these two champions. As an example, Varus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Garen’s ratio of NaN, showing that Varus may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Garen..
Varus usually has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. On average, he receives less damage than Garen. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Varus and Garen
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Who is Better, Varus or Garen?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Varus usually fairs equally well when facing off against Garen, with a 49.4% win rate. Thus, Varus makes an ok counter to Garen.
While Varus does have a lower win rate than Garen, when on opposite teams, Varus also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Varus into Garen.
Furthermore, Varus has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Varus vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Varus is a somewhat poor counter to Garen. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Varus against Garen.
Other Champion Matchups Against Varus
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Varus in order to counter Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Varus typically accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Garen. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Varus versus Garen build include Muramana, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Varus combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better against Garen than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Varus had an average win rate of 49.4% battling Garen with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Garen as Varus, Varus players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Varus vs Garen face-offs, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.4% winrate overall.
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