Garen vs Wukong
How to Beat Wukong as Garen
based on 1,508 Garen vs Wukong matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Wukong Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Wukong Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Wukong as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Wukong
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 Wukong
Wukong becomes tougher to kill when surrounded by his enemies. Try to isolate him to gain an advantage.
Wukong will often use Decoy after Nimbus Strike. Try delaying your abilities by a short amount of time to ensure that you're hitting the real Wukong.
Garen vs Wukong Counter Stats
How to Counter Wukong with Garen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some critical Garen versus Wukong matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences between these two champions. For instance, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Wukong’s ratio of NaN, showing that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Wukong..
Garen usually has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Wukong. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Garen and Wukong
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Who is Better, Garen or Wukong?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Garen usually fairs equally well when facing off against Wukong, with a 50.3% win rate. Therefore, Garen makes an ok counter for Wukong.
While Garen does have a higher winrate than Wukong, when facing one another, Garen also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Garen into Wukong.
Moreover, Garen also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Wukong. 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 one best champion in League of Legends, in Garen vs Wukong matchups, Garen is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Garen is a decent counter to Wukong. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Garen against Wukong.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Garen to counter Wukong during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen typically accumulates more CS compared to Wukong. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Garen versus Wukong build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Garen included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Wukong than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 50.3% when playing against Wukong with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating Wukong as Garen, Garen players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Garen vs Wukong counters, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.3% winrate overall.
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