Corki vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Corki
based on 1,325 Corki vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Corki vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Corki vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Corki
Tips for Playing as Corki against Garen
Valkyrie can be used defensively as well, so try using it for a quick escape.
Phosphorus Bomb can be used to reveal enemy units that might be hiding in a nearby patch of brush.
Corki can continue to attack while using Gatling Gun. Maximizing Gatling Gun is key to mastering Corki.
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.
Corki vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Corki in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some influential Corki versus Garen counter stats that may help us interpret the differences between the two. Corki’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Corki may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Garen..
Corki often has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than Garen. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Corki and Garen
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Who is Better, Corki or Garen?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Corki usually loses when trying to fight Garen, with a 48.7% win rate. Therefore, Corki makes a bad counter to Garen.
While Corki does have a lower winrate compared to Garen, when facing one another, Corki also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Corki into Garen.
Furthermore, Corki also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Corki vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Corki is a somewhat poor counter for Garen. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Corki against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Corki in order to counter Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Corki on average picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Garen. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need 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, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Corki versus Garen build consist of Malignance, Spear of Shojin, and Eclipse. When Corki incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Garen than with most other common item sets. In fact, Corki boasted an average winrate of 48.7% battling Garen with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Garen as Corki, Corki players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Corki vs Garen counter picks, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.7% winrate overall.
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