Garen vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Garen
based on 2,733 Garen vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Illaoi
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 Illaoi
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Garen vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Garen in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some significant Garen vs. Illaoi counter statistics that can help us figure out the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Illaoi’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Illaoi..
Garen often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Illaoi. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Garen or Illaoi?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Garen usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Illaoi, with a 50.3% win rate. Therefore, Garen makes an ok counter to Illaoi.
While Garen does have a higher win rate compared to Illaoi, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Garen into Illaoi.
Moreover, Garen also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Illaoi. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Garen vs Illaoi matchups, Garen 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 decent counter for Illaoi. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Garen against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Garen to counter Illaoi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen on average racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Illaoi. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Garen versus Illaoi build include Hullbreaker, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better countering Illaoi than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 50.3% when countering Illaoi with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Illaoi 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. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Garen vs Illaoi counters, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.3% win rate overall.
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