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.
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several significant Yuumi vs. Garen matchup stats that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Yuumi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Garen’s ratio of NaN, showing that Yuumi may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Garen. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Yuumi typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she takes less damage than Garen. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Yuumi usually loses when playing against Garen, with a 43.9% win rate. Therefore, Yuumi makes a poor counter to Garen.
While Yuumi does have a much lower win rate than Garen, when they face off with one another, Yuumi also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging champion to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Yuumi into Garen.
Moreover, Yuumi has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Yuumi vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Yuumi is a trash counter for Garen. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Yuumi against Garen.
If you would like to truly master Yuumi to counter Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yuumi usually gets a lot less CS compared to Garen. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Yuumi versus Garen build include Dream Maker, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Yuumi used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when facing Garen than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Yuumi boasted an average win rate of 43.9% when playing against Garen with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Garen as Yuumi, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Yuumi vs Garen LoL games, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 43.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Garen as Yuumi are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.