Ekko vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Ekko
based on 6,180 Ekko vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ekko vs Garen Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Garen as Ekko
Tips for Playing as Ekko against Garen
Chronobreak is a potent escape tool, but it can also be quite powerful when used offensively. Don't underestimate its damage potential.
If you can proc Z-Drive Resonance on an enemy champion, it's worth taking risks to do so. The bonus Move Speed makes it easy to escape.
Phase Dive's dash is a great tool for setting up Ekko's other abilities. Use it to get double hits with Timewinder or get into position to detonate Parallel Convergence.
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.
Ekko vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Ekko in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some critical Ekko vs. Garen matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Ekko’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Garen’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ekko may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Garen..
Ekko usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Garen. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ekko and Garen
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Who is Better, Ekko or Garen?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ekko usually wins when trying to fight Garen, with a 52.6% win rate. Thus, Ekko makes a good counter for Garen.
While Ekko does have a higher win rate than Garen, when on opposite teams, Ekko also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Ekko into Garenas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Ekko has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ekko vs Garen matchups, Ekko is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Ekko is an above average counter to Garen. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Ekko against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Ekko 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ekko often racks up less CS relative to Garen. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Ekko versus Garen build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Ekko combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better against Garen than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Ekko boasted an average winrate of 52.6% when playing against Garen with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Garen as Ekko, you should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Future's Market runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Ekko vs Garen counters, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.6% winrate overall.
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