Garen vs K'Sante
How to Beat K'Sante as Garen
based on 2,049 Garen vs K'Sante matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs K'Sante Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Countering K'Sante as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against K'Sante
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 K'Sante
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Garen vs K'Sante Counter Stats
How to Counter K'Sante with Garen in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several vital Garen versus K'Sante counter statistics that can help you interpret the distinctions between the two. For instance, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than K'Sante’s ratio of NaN, showing that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than K'Sante..
Garen often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to K'Sante. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Garen and K'Sante
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Who is Better, Garen or K'Sante?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Garen usually wins when playing against K'Sante, with a 53.3% win rate. Thus, Garen makes a great counter to K'Sante.
While Garen does have a higher winrate compared to K'Sante, when facing one another, Garen also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging character to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Garen into K'Sante.
Moreover, Garen also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to K'Sante. This often 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 overall in League of Legends, in Garen vs K'Sante matchups, Garen is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Garen is a great counter for K'Sante. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Garen against K'Sante.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to counter K'Sante during both the laning 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 suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to K'Sante. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Garen versus K'Sante build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better against K'Sante than with most other typical builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 53.3% when playing against K'Sante with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against K'Sante as Garen, Garen players should take 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 used for Garen vs K'Sante counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.3% win rate overall.
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