Garen vs Kassadin
How to Beat Kassadin as Garen
based on 1,673 Garen vs Kassadin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Kassadin Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kassadin as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Kassadin
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 Kassadin
It takes 6 spell casts for Kassadin's slow, Force Pulse, to become castable. If he levels up that ability, judiciously use your own skills while laning against him.
Kassadin deals mostly magic damage. If he's doing well consider buying magic resist items like Mercury's Treads and Banshee's Veil.
Each time Kassadin consecutively uses Riftwalk, he pays more and more mana. Keep this in mind as you chase him.
Garen vs Kassadin Counter Stats
How to Counter Kassadin with Garen in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some critical Garen versus Kassadin matchup statistics that may help us explain the distinctions between the pair. Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kassadin’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kassadin..
Garen often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Kassadin. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Kassadin
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Who is Better, Garen or Kassadin?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Garen usually loses when taking on Kassadin, with a 47.8% win rate. Therefore, Garen makes a bad counter to Kassadin.
While Garen does have a lower win rate compared to Kassadin, when facing one another, Garen also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Garen into Kassadin.
Additionally, Garen also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kassadin. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Garen vs Kassadin matchups, Kassadin is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Garen is a terribly counter for Kassadin. You will do well by focussing your tactics 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 Kassadin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen to counter Kassadin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen on average racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Kassadin. Champs who typically don't take much CS often 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 skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Garen versus Kassadin build include Black Cleaver, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better countering Kassadin than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 47.8% when playing against Kassadin with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Kassadin as Garen, you 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 Kassadin matchups, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.8% win rate overall.
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