Viktor vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Viktor
based on 1,841 Viktor vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Viktor vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Viktor vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Viktor
Tips for Playing as Viktor against Garen
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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.
Viktor vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Viktor in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several valuable Viktor against Garen counter stats that can help you figure out the differences between this set of champions. As an example, Viktor’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Viktor may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Garen..
Viktor usually has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Typically, he receives less damage than Garen. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Viktor and Garen
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Who is Better, Viktor or Garen?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Viktor usually fairs equally well when facing off against Garen, with a 50.7% win rate. Thus, Viktor makes an ok counter for Garen.
While Viktor does have a higher winrate compared to Garen, when on opposite teams, Viktor also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Viktor into Garenas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Viktor 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 one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Viktor vs Garen matchups, Viktor is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Viktor is a decent counter to Garen. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Viktor against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Viktor 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 listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Viktor usually accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Garen. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Viktor versus Garen build consist of Lich Bane, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Garen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Viktor had an average winrate of 50.7% when countering Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Garen as Viktor, Viktor players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Viktor vs Garen clashes, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.7% win rate overall.
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