Garen vs Nami
How to Beat Nami as Garen
based on 3,578 Garen vs Nami matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Nami Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nami as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Nami
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 Nami
Aqua Prison is a very powerful ability with a long cooldown, take advantage of the situation if Nami misses this ability.
Tidal Wave has a very long range but travels slowly, be aware of when it is coming your way as you can move out of its path.
Try to avoid fighting an opponent affected by Tidecaller's Blessing, it lasts a short duration so waiting it out can help you greatly.
Garen vs Nami Counter Stats
How to Counter Nami with Garen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several critical Garen vs. Nami counter stats that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nami’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nami. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Garen often has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Nami. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Nami
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Who is Better, Garen or Nami?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Garen usually fairs equally well when taking on Nami, with a 49.6% win rate. As a result, Garen makes an ok counter to Nami.
While Garen does have a lower winrate than Nami, when facing one another, Garen also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Garen into Nami.
Moreover, Garen has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nami. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Garen vs Nami matchups, Nami is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Garen is a somewhat poor counter to Nami. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Garen against Nami.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Garen in order to counter Nami during both the laning 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 mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen usually picks up much more CS as Nami. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Garen versus Nami build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better countering Nami than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 49.6% when playing against Nami with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Nami as Garen, Garen players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Garen vs Nami fights, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.6% winrate overall.
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