Zed vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Zed
based on 4,681 Zed vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Garen
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Zed in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some strategic Zed against Garen matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the two. Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Garen..
Zed normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he receives less damage than Garen. This often 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 Zed and Garen
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Who is Better, Zed or Garen?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zed usually fairs equally well when taking on Garen, with a 49.1% win rate. Therefore, Zed makes an ok counter to Garen.
While Zed does have a lower win rate than Garen, when on opposite teams, Zed also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Zed into Garenas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zed has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This 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 Zed vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Zed is a somewhat poor counter to Garen. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Zed against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zed in order to counter Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Garen. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Zed versus Garen build consist of Axiom Arc, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Garen than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 49.1% when playing against Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Garen as Zed, Zed players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Zed vs Garen counterpicks, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.1% win rate overall.
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