Garen vs Akshan
How to Beat Akshan as Garen
based on 2,455 Garen vs Akshan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Akshan Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Akshan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akshan as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Akshan
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.
Garen vs Akshan Counter Stats
How to Counter Akshan with Garen in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some valuable Garen vs. Akshan matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the differences between the pair. For instance, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Akshan’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Akshan..
Garen normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Akshan. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Garen and Akshan
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Who is Better, Garen or Akshan?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Garen usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Akshan, with a 49.7% win rate. Therefore, Garen makes an ok counter for Akshan.
While Garen does have a lower winrate than Akshan, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Garen into Akshan.
Furthermore, Garen also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Akshan. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Garen vs Akshan matchups, Akshan is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Garen is a somewhat poor counter to Akshan. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Garen against Akshan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Garen to counter Akshan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen most often picks up a similar amount of CS as Akshan. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Garen versus Akshan build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Akshan than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 49.7% battling Akshan with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Akshan as Garen, you should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Garen vs Akshan battles, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.7% winrate overall.
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