Garen vs Fiddlesticks
How to Beat Fiddlesticks as Garen
based on 2,228 Garen vs Fiddlesticks matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Fiddlesticks Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Fiddlesticks Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Fiddlesticks as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Fiddlesticks
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 Fiddlesticks Counter Stats
How to Counter Fiddlesticks with Garen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several important Garen against Fiddlesticks counter stats that may help us distinguish the differences between the pair. As an example, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Fiddlesticks’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Fiddlesticks..
Garen normally has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Fiddlesticks. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Fiddlesticks
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Who is Better, Garen or Fiddlesticks?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Garen usually wins when taking on Fiddlesticks, with a 52.6% win rate. As a result, Garen makes a good counter for Fiddlesticks.
While Garen does have a higher winrate compared to Fiddlesticks, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Garen into Fiddlesticks.
Moreover, Garen also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Fiddlesticks. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Garen vs Fiddlesticks matchups, Garen is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Garen is a good counter for Fiddlesticks. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Garen against Fiddlesticks.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Garen to counter Fiddlesticks during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen typically picks up much more CS compared to Fiddlesticks. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Garen versus Fiddlesticks build include Trinity Force, Sundered Sky, and Stridebreaker. When Garen included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Fiddlesticks than with most other common item sets. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 52.6% when countering Fiddlesticks with this counter build.
To have the best probability of beating Fiddlesticks as Garen, Garen players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Garen vs Fiddlesticks counters, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.6% winrate overall.
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