Garen vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Garen
based on 2,121 Garen vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Alistar
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 Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Garen vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Garen in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some strategic Garen versus Alistar counter stats that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Alistar’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Alistar. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Garen often has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Alistar. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Alistar
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Who is Better, Garen or Alistar?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Garen usually fairs equally well when facing off against Alistar, with a 49.2% win rate. As a result, Garen makes an ok counter for Alistar.
While Garen does have a lower win rate compared to Alistar, when they face off with one another, Garen also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Garen into Alistar.
Furthermore, Garen has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Alistar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Garen vs Alistar matchups, Alistar is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Garen is a somewhat poor counter to Alistar. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Garen against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Garen in order to counter Alistar during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen most often racks up much more CS as Alistar. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't require 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 large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Garen versus Alistar build include Trinity Force, Sundered Sky, and Stridebreaker. When Garen combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Alistar than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 49.2% battling Alistar with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating Alistar as Garen, Garen players should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Garen vs Alistar LoL games, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.2% winrate overall.
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