Xerath vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Xerath
based on 5,292 Xerath vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xerath vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Xerath vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Xerath
Tips for Playing as Xerath against Garen
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
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.
Xerath vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Xerath in LoL
The stats provided here feature some important Xerath versus Garen matchup stats that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. Xerath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Garen’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Xerath may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Garen. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Xerath normally has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Garen. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Xerath and Garen
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Who is Better, Xerath or Garen?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Xerath usually wins when taking on Garen, with a 51.0% win rate. Thus, Xerath makes a good counter for Garen.
While Xerath does have a higher winrate compared to Garen, when they face off with one another, Xerath also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Xerath 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, Xerath has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Xerath vs Garen matchups, Xerath is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Xerath is a decent counter for Garen. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Xerath against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Xerath to counter Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xerath on average gets less CS compared to Garen. Champs who typically don't take 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 skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Xerath versus Garen build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff, and Shadowflame. When Xerath incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting Garen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Xerath boasted an average win rate of 51.0% when countering Garen with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Garen as Xerath, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Xerath vs Garen LoL games, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.0% win rate overall.
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