Garen vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Garen
based on 1,166 Garen vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Garen vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Garen in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some significant Garen versus Kalista counter statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kalista..
Garen normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he receives more damage than Kalista. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Garen and Kalista
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Who is Better, Garen or Kalista?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Garen usually wins when taking on Kalista, with a 51.6% win rate. Therefore, Garen makes a good counter to Kalista.
While Garen does have a higher win rate than Kalista, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Garen into Kalista.
Additionally, Garen also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Garen vs Kalista matchups, Garen is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Garen is a decent counter to Kalista. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Garen against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to counter Kalista 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 mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Kalista. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Garen versus Kalista build include Trinity Force, Sundered Sky, and Stridebreaker. When Garen bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Kalista than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 51.6% when playing against Kalista with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Kalista as Garen, Garen players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Garen vs Kalista clashes, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.6% winrate overall.
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