Garen vs Nilah
How to Beat Nilah as Garen
based on 2,091 Garen vs Nilah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Nilah Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Nilah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nilah as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Nilah
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.
Garen vs Nilah Counter Stats
How to Counter Nilah with Garen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several important Garen against Nilah matchup stats that can help us figure out the differences between the pair. As an example, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nilah’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Nilah..
Garen typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Nilah. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Garen and Nilah
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Who is Better, Garen or Nilah?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Garen usually loses when taking on Nilah, with a 47.9% win rate. As a result, Garen makes a bad counter for Nilah.
While Garen does have a lower winrate than Nilah, when they face off with one another, Garen also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Garen into Nilah.
Furthermore, Garen also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nilah. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Garen vs Nilah matchups, Nilah is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Garen is a bad counter to Nilah. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Garen against Nilah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Garen to counter Nilah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Nilah. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Garen versus Nilah build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Garen used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Nilah than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 47.9% when countering Nilah with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Nilah as Garen, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Garen vs Nilah fights, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.9% winrate overall.
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