Vi vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Vi
based on 3,854 Vi vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vi vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Vi vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Vi
Tips for Playing as Vi against Garen
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
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.
Vi vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Vi in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several influential Vi against Garen counter stats that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. Vi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vi may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Garen..
Vi normally has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Garen. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vi and Garen
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Who is Better, Vi or Garen?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vi usually wins when playing against Garen, with a 53.6% win rate. As a result, Vi makes a great counter to Garen.
While Vi does have a higher win rate compared to Garen, when on opposite teams, Vi also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Vi into Garen.
Additionally, Vi also has only a small 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vi vs Garen matchups, Vi is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Vi is a great counter to Garen. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vi against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Vi in order to counter Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vi most often racks up a lot less CS relative to Garen. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Vi versus Garen build include Experimental Hexplate, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Vi included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting Garen than with most other typical builds. In fact, Vi boasted an average winrate of 53.6% battling Garen with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Garen as Vi, you should use the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Vi vs Garen clashes, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.6% winrate overall.
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