Vex vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Vex
based on 2,575 Vex vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vex vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Vex vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Vex
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.
Vex vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Vex in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several influential Vex vs. Garen matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences and similarities between these two champs. Vex’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s ratio of NaN, showing that Vex may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Garen..
Vex often has a similar longest killing spree as their counter does. On average, they takes less damage than Garen. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vex and Garen
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Who is Better, Vex or Garen?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vex usually fairs equally well when taking on Garen, with a 50.4% win rate. As a result, Vex makes an ok counter to Garen.
While Vex does have a higher winrate compared to Garen, when on opposite teams, Vex also has a much lower learning curve that makes them a less time consuming champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Vex into Garen.
Additionally, Vex has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vex vs Garen matchups, Vex is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Vex is a decent counter for Garen. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vex against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Vex to counter Garen during both the lane 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 listen to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vex typically racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Garen. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Vex versus Garen build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Vex included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better versus Garen than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Vex had an average winrate of 50.4% when countering Garen with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Garen as Vex, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Vex vs Garen battles, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.4% win rate overall.
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