Garen vs Draven
How to Beat Draven as Garen
based on 4,013 Garen vs Draven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Draven Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Draven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Draven as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Draven
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 Draven
Disrupt Draven with the goal of making him drop his axes. If you do, his power drops dramatically.
Launch skillshots toward the landing position of Draven's Spinning Axes.
Garen vs Draven Counter Stats
How to Counter Draven with Garen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several valuable Garen versus Draven counter statistics that can help us appreciate the differences between the two. For instance, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Draven’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Draven..
Garen often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Draven. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Garen and Draven
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Who is Better, Garen or Draven?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Garen usually fairs equally well when facing off against Draven, with a 49.3% win rate. Thus, Garen makes an ok counter for Draven.
While Garen does have a lower win rate compared to Draven, when they face off with one another, Garen also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Garen into Draven.
Furthermore, Garen has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Draven. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Garen vs Draven matchups, Draven is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Garen is a somewhat poor counter to Draven. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Garen against Draven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Garen to counter Draven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen on average gets a similar amount of CS compared to Draven. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Garen versus Draven build include Dead Man's Plate, Force of Nature, and Stridebreaker. When Garen incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Draven than with many other common item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 49.3% when playing against Draven with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Draven as Garen, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Garen vs Draven counter picks, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Draven as Garen are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.