Aatrox vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Aatrox
based on 6,081 Aatrox vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aatrox vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Aatrox vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Aatrox
Tips for Playing as Aatrox against Garen
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
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.
Aatrox vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Aatrox in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some important Aatrox versus Garen counter statistics that can help us figure out the differences between the pair. As an example, Aatrox’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Aatrox may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Garen..
Aatrox usually has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Garen. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Aatrox and Garen
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Who is Better, Aatrox or Garen?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Aatrox usually fairs equally well when taking on Garen, with a 50.7% win rate. As a result, Aatrox makes an ok counter for Garen.
While Aatrox does have a higher winrate than Garen, when facing one another, Aatrox also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Aatrox into Garen.
Additionally, Aatrox has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Aatrox vs Garen matchups, Aatrox is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Aatrox is a decent counter to Garen. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Aatrox against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Aatrox to counter Garen during both the lane 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 suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aatrox most often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Garen. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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 several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Aatrox versus Garen build consist of Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Death's Dance. When Aatrox bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when facing Garen than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Aatrox boasted an average win rate of 50.7% when countering Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Garen as Aatrox, Aatrox players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Revitalize, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Aatrox vs Garen counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.7% winrate overall.
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