Garen vs Ekko
How to Beat Ekko as Garen
based on 6,180 Garen vs Ekko matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Ekko Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Ekko Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ekko as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Ekko
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 Ekko
The second hit of Timewinder does more damage than the first; try to avoid it.
Ekko is significantly weaker when his ultimate is down. Watch for the trail he leaves behind to determine if Chronobreak is available.
Ekko's stun zone takes 3 seconds to arm. Watch for the image he creates on cast and try to guess where the zone was placed.
Garen vs Ekko Counter Stats
How to Counter Ekko with Garen in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some important Garen vs. Ekko matchup statistics that can help us understand the distinctions between these two champs. Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ekko’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Ekko..
Garen often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Ekko. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Garen and Ekko
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Who is Better, Garen or Ekko?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Garen usually loses when playing against Ekko, with a 47.4% win rate. As a result, Garen makes a poor counter for Ekko.
While Garen does have a lower win rate than Ekko, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Garen into Ekko.
Furthermore, Garen has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ekko. This 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Garen vs Ekko matchups, Ekko is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Garen is a trash counter to Ekko. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Garen against Ekko.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Garen in order to counter Ekko during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen often gets more CS as Ekko. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Garen versus Ekko build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Garen combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better against Ekko than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 47.4% battling Ekko with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Ekko as Garen, you should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Garen vs Ekko clashes, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.4% winrate overall.
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