Warwick vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Warwick
based on 6,402 Warwick vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Warwick vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Warwick vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Warwick
Tips for Playing as Warwick against Garen
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
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.
Warwick vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Warwick in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several influential Warwick against Garen counter stats that may help us distinguish the differences between this set of champions. Warwick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s ratio of NaN, showing that Warwick may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Garen..
Warwick often has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Garen. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Warwick and Garen
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Who is Better, Warwick or Garen?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Warwick usually fairs equally well when playing against Garen, with a 50.3% win rate. As a result, Warwick makes an ok counter to Garen.
While Warwick does have a higher win rate compared to Garen, when facing one another, Warwick also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Warwick into Garen.
Furthermore, Warwick also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Warwick vs Garen matchups, Warwick is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Warwick is a decent counter to Garen. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Warwick against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Warwick to counter Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Warwick typically accumulates a lot less CS compared to Garen. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Warwick versus Garen build include Trinity Force, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Warwick bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Garen than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Warwick had an average winrate of 50.3% when playing against Garen with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Garen as Warwick, Warwick players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Warwick vs Garen counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.3% winrate overall.
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