Garen vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Garen
based on 4,550 Garen vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Malzahar
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 Malzahar
Malzahar is especially dangerous when he has built up his Void Swarm.
When Malzahar hits a spell on enemies affected by Malefic Visions, the Visions are refreshed.
Avoid minion waves that have been affected by Malefic Visions. You never know when they may die and pass the Visions onto you.
Garen vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Garen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some influential Garen against Malzahar counter stats that can help you figure out the differences between the pair. For instance, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Malzahar’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Malzahar..
Garen usually has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Malzahar. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Garen and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Garen or Malzahar?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Garen usually loses when facing off against Malzahar, with a 48.0% win rate. Therefore, Garen makes a bad counter for Malzahar.
While Garen does have a lower win rate than Malzahar, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Garen into Malzahar.
Additionally, Garen has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Malzahar. This often 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 overall in League of Legends, in Garen vs Malzahar matchups, Malzahar is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Garen is a trash counter to Malzahar. Focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Garen against Malzahar.
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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 Malzahar during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen most often gets a similar amount of CS as Malzahar. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions 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 reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Garen versus Malzahar build consist of Sterak's Gage, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Malzahar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 48.0% when countering Malzahar with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Malzahar as Garen, Garen players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Garen vs Malzahar counter picks, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.0% winrate overall.
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