Garen vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Garen
based on 5,033 Garen vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Leona
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 Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Garen vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Garen in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several important Garen versus Leona counter stats that can help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Leona. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Garen often has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Leona. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Leona
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Who is Better, Garen or Leona?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Garen usually loses when facing off against Leona, with a 46.4% win rate. Therefore, Garen makes a poor counter to Leona.
While Garen does have a lower winrate compared to Leona, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Garen into Leona.
Furthermore, Garen has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This 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 Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Garen is a garbage counter for Leona. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Garen against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Garen to counter Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen on average accumulates much more CS as Leona. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Garen versus Leona build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Garen incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Leona than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 46.4% battling Leona with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Leona as Garen, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Garen vs Leona clashes, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.4% winrate overall.
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