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How to Win Fiddlesticks vs Garen Counter MatchupFiddlesticks is in the a tier of champions

Fiddlesticks vs Garen

How to Beat Garen as Fiddlesticks in LoLFiddlesticks is in the b tier of champions
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How to Beat Garen as Fiddlesticks

based on 2,228 Fiddlesticks vs Garen matchups
Win Rate
47.4 %
K/D/A
2.27
Pick Rate
3.5 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

We at MOBA Champion evaluate millions of ranked League of Legends games each and every week. In our data, Fiddlesticks engaged Garen in 2228 matches. Including so many games with Fiddlesticks vs Garen gives us confidence in our capability to produce useful statistics and a recommended build to obliterate your opposition. This champion pairing is relatively rare. Fiddlesticks has to counter Garen in only 3.5% of his matches.

Fiddlesticks vs Garen Matchup Summary

Unfortunately, Fiddlesticks has done a dismal job of countering Garen. On average, he wins a lowly 47.4% of the time the champions clash against each other in. In Fiddlesticks against Garen games, Fiddlesticks’s team is 0.0% more expected to earn first blood. This implies that he most likely will get first blood versus Garen.

Best Fiddlesticks vs Garen Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Gustwalker HatchlingHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Amplifying TomeSorcerer's Shoes

Core Fiddlesticks Items

~22 Mins
Hextech RocketbeltZhonya's HourglassShadowflame

Optional Items

Rabadon's DeathcapVoid StaffMalignanceLiandry's Torment

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonersmite summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Fiddlesticks to level upw
>
Second ability for Fiddlesticks to level upq
>
Last skill for Fiddlesticks to max oute

Runes

InspirationFirst StrikeTriple TonicFuture's MarketCosmic Insight
DominationCheap ShotUltimate Hunter
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceHealth Scaling
Fiddlesticks's passive ability p
Fiddlesticks's q ability q
Fiddlesticks's w ability w
Fiddlesticks's e ability e
Fiddlesticks's ultimate ability r
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Guide to Countering Garen as Fiddlesticks

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.

Fiddlesticks vs Garen Counter Stats

Fiddlesticks Image
Win Rate
47.4 %
VS
Win Rate
52.6 %
Garen Image
5.3
< Kills >
6.2
6.2
< Deaths >
5
8.8
< Assists >
4.1
1.22
< Killing Sprees >
1.42
39
< Minions Killed >
181
1.22
< Dragons Killed >
0.12
0.34
< Inhibitors >
0.64
324
< Physical Damage >
14,476
17,047
< Magic Damage >
228
1,204
< True Damage >
4,729
18,576
< Damage Dealt >
19,433
33,194
< Damage Taken >
32,360
11,189
< Gold Earned >
12,416
1.09
< Towers >
2.86
0.27
< Baron Takedowns >
0.03
17,149
< Total Healing >
3,409
13,000
< Experience >
15,639
45
< Vision Score >
18
3
< Wards Placed >
8
754
< Time Dealing CC >
146

How to Counter Garen with Fiddlesticks in LoL

The stats provided here clarify several critical Fiddlesticks against Garen matchup statistics that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between these two champions. For instance, Fiddlesticks’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s ratio of NaN, showing that Fiddlesticks may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Garen. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.

Fiddlesticks often has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Garen. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.

Differences between Fiddlesticks and Garen

Damage Types Compared

Fiddlesticks
Garen
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Fiddlesticks
Garen

Who is Better, Fiddlesticks or Garen?

Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Fiddlesticks usually loses when playing against Garen, with a 47.4% win rate. As a result, Fiddlesticks makes a bad counter to Garen.

While Fiddlesticks does have a lower winrate than Garen, when on opposite teams, Fiddlesticks also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Fiddlesticks into Garenas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.

Moreover, Fiddlesticks also has a good 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 ton of burst damage.

While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Fiddlesticks vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.

Fiddlesticks is a bad counter for Garen. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Fiddlesticks against Garen.

Additional Information for Fiddlesticks Players

How We Calculated Our Fiddlesticks vs Garen Build and Stats

For this guide on countering Garen as Fiddlesticks, we analyzed 2,228 matchups from recent LoL games. We use rigorous data cleaning and processing methods to ensure that our counter stats are of the highest quality. You can rest assured that the recommended build to counter Garen as Fiddlesticks comes from real data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view the most relevant stats and items to your rank.

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Further Insights to Win this Matchup

If you would like to truly master Fiddlesticks to counter Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.

Fiddlesticks typically accumulates a lot less CS as Garen. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.

The ideal items to use in your Fiddlesticks versus Garen build consist of Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Fiddlesticks incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Garen than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Fiddlesticks had an average winrate of 47.4% when countering Garen with this build.

To have the greatest likelihood of beating Garen as Fiddlesticks, you should use the First Strike, Triple Tonic, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Fiddlesticks vs Garen LoL games, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.4% win rate overall.

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