Garen vs Ahri
How to Beat Ahri as Garen
based on 3,961 Garen vs Ahri matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Ahri Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Ahri Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ahri as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Ahri
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Advice to Win Against Ahri
Stay behind minions to make Charm difficult to land, this will reduce Ahri's damage potential significantly.
Ahri's survivability is dramatically reduced when her Ultimate, Spirit Rush, is down.
Garen vs Ahri Counter Stats
How to Counter Ahri with Garen in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some important Garen vs. Ahri counter statistics that can help you figure out the differences between this pair of champs. For instance, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ahri’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Ahri..
Garen normally has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Ahri. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Garen and Ahri
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Who is Better, Garen or Ahri?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Garen usually wins when playing against Ahri, with a 51.0% win rate. Therefore, Garen makes a good counter to Ahri.
While Garen does have a higher winrate compared to Ahri, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Garen into Ahri.
Moreover, Garen has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ahri. 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 overall in League of Legends, in Garen vs Ahri matchups, Garen is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Garen is a decent counter for Ahri. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Garen against Ahri.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Garen in order to counter Ahri 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 tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen usually picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Ahri. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Garen versus Ahri build consist of Hullbreaker, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs Ahri than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 51.0% when playing against Ahri with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Ahri as Garen, Garen players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Garen vs Ahri face-offs, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.0% win rate overall.
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