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How to Win Garen vs Miss Fortune Counter MatchupGaren is in the b tier of champions

Garen vs Miss Fortune

How to Beat Miss Fortune as Garen in LoLGaren is in the a tier of champions
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How to Beat Miss Fortune as Garen

based on 18,746 Garen vs Miss Fortune matchups
Win Rate
45.4 %
K/D/A
1.9
Pick Rate
13.8 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

At MOBA Champion, we analyze millions of recently ranked League matches each and every week. In our database, Garen fought Miss Fortune in 18746 matches. With so many games with Garen vs Miss Fortune provides us a lot of confidence in our capability to produce useful statistics and a recommended build to counter your rival. This champ matchup is fairly common. Garen fights Miss Fortune in 13.8% of his games.

Garen vs Miss Fortune Matchup Summary

Unfortunately, Garen has done a terrible job of countering Miss Fortune. Typically, he wins a lowly 45.4% of games the champions fight each other in. In Garen versus Miss Fortune rounds, Garen’s team is 0.1% less expected to earn first blood. This indicates that he most likely won't get first blood versus Miss Fortune.

Best Garen vs Miss Fortune Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's ShieldDoran's Blade

Early Items

~5 Mins
Berserker's GreavesPhage

Core Garen Items

~22 Mins
Sterak's GageTrinity ForceSundered Sky

Optional Items

Infinity EdgeStormrazorYoumuu's GhostbladePhantom Dancer

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerhaste summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Garen to level upe
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Second ability for Garen to level upq
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Last skill for Garen to max outw

Runes

PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: TenacityLast Stand
ResolveSecond WindOvergrowth
Adaptive ForceMove SpeedHealth Scaling
Garen's passive ability p
Garen's q ability q
Garen's w ability w
Garen's e ability e
Garen's ultimate ability r
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Q
2
E
3
W
4
E
5
E
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R
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Guide to Countering Miss Fortune as Garen

Tips for Playing as Garen against Miss Fortune

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 Miss Fortune

Miss Fortune's speed boost is removed if she is damaged by an enemy.

Miss Fortune is easy to kill if you can reach her; target her first in team fights.

Garen vs Miss Fortune Counter Stats

Garen Image
Win Rate
45.4 %
VS
Win Rate
54.6 %
Miss Fortune Image
6.1
< Kills >
8.2
5.2
< Deaths >
5.9
3.8
< Assists >
6.8
1.39
< Killing Sprees >
1.88
177
< Minions Killed >
172
0.11
< Dragons Killed >
0.18
0.57
< Inhibitors >
0.56
14,246
< Physical Damage >
20,630
220
< Magic Damage >
1,217
4,729
< True Damage >
972
19,195
< Damage Dealt >
22,819
31,963
< Damage Taken >
19,642
12,159
< Gold Earned >
12,866
2.68
< Towers >
2.49
0.03
< Baron Takedowns >
0.05
3,241
< Total Healing >
4,522
15,338
< Experience >
12,974
17
< Vision Score >
20
8
< Wards Placed >
10
143
< Time Dealing CC >
155

How to Counter Miss Fortune with Garen in LoL

The stats shown here underscore some valuable Garen vs. Miss Fortune matchup stats that can help us figure out the distinctions between these two champs. Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Miss Fortune’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Miss Fortune..

Garen typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Miss Fortune. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.

Differences between Garen and Miss Fortune

Damage Types Compared

Garen
Miss Fortune
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Garen
Miss Fortune

Who is Better, Garen or Miss Fortune?

Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Garen usually loses when playing against Miss Fortune, with a 45.4% win rate. As a result, Garen makes a bad counter for Miss Fortune.

While Garen does have a much lower winrate compared to Miss Fortune, when they face off with one another, Garen also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Garen into Miss Fortune.

Moreover, Garen has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Miss Fortune. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.

While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Garen vs Miss Fortune matchups, Miss Fortune is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.

Garen is a trash counter for Miss Fortune. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Garen against Miss Fortune.

Additional Information for Garen Players

How We Calculated Our Garen vs Miss Fortune Build and Stats

For this guide on countering Miss Fortune as Garen, we analyzed 18,746 matchups from recent LoL games. We use rigorous data cleaning and processing methods to ensure that our counter stats are of the highest quality. You can rest assured that the recommended build to counter Miss Fortune as Garen comes from real data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view the most relevant stats and items to your rank.

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Further Insights to Win this Matchup

To truly master Garen in order to counter Miss Fortune during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.

Garen often racks up a similar amount of CS as Miss Fortune. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.

The ideal items to prioritize in your Garen versus Miss Fortune build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Garen included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better against Miss Fortune than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 45.4% when playing against Miss Fortune with these items in his kit.

To have the highest likelihood of crushing Miss Fortune as Garen, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Garen vs Miss Fortune battles, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.4% winrate overall.

If you want to get Garen vs Miss Fortune tips and counter stats for a a specific division, please select one from the selection menu above. At first, the stats and strategies displayed are computed using all matches with data with these champs.