Garen vs Lulu
How to Beat Lulu as Garen
based on 1,869 Garen vs Lulu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Lulu Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Lulu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lulu as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Lulu
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 Lulu
Lulu excels when opponents heavily commit. Don't give her this chance! Use heavy harass tactics instead to force Lulu and her partner out of lane.
The shots from Lulu's faerie can be intercepted - hide behind your minions to avoid the additional Faerie attacks.
Garen vs Lulu Counter Stats
How to Counter Lulu with Garen in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some valuable Garen vs. Lulu counter stats that can help us explain the distinctions between this pair of champions. Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lulu’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Lulu. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Garen often has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Lulu. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Garen and Lulu
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Who is Better, Garen or Lulu?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Garen usually fairs equally well when taking on Lulu, with a 49.9% win rate. Therefore, Garen makes an ok counter for Lulu.
While Garen does have a lower win rate than Lulu, when facing one another, Garen also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Garen into Lulu.
Moreover, Garen has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lulu. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Garen vs Lulu matchups, Lulu is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Garen is a somewhat poor counter to Lulu. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Garen against Lulu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Garen to counter Lulu during both the early game 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 mind the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen most often racks up much more CS compared to Lulu. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Garen versus Lulu build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when facing Lulu than with many other common item sets. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 49.9% battling Lulu with this counter build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Lulu as Garen, you 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 used for Garen vs Lulu face-offs, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.9% win rate overall.
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