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

Garen vs Qiyana

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

based on 1,632 Garen vs Qiyana matchups
Win Rate
52.4 %
K/D/A
2
Pick Rate
1.2 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

We get our matchup statistics from the millions of ranked League of Legends games that we evaluate each week. Our guide on how to beat Qiyana as Garen resulted from an evaluation of 1632 ranked matches where both champs battled each other. This champion pairing is fairly rare. Garen encounters Qiyana in only 1.2% of his rounds.

Garen vs Qiyana Matchup Summary

Garen does a good job of beating Qiyana. Normally, he wins a whopping 52.4% of games the champs face off with one another in. In Garen against Qiyana rounds, Garen’s team is 0.0% more expected to gain first blood. This indicates that he most likely will be able to get first blood against Qiyana.

Best Garen vs Qiyana Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's ShieldHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Long SwordBerserker's Greaves

Core Garen Items

~22 Mins
Trinity ForceDead Man's PlateStridebreaker

Optional Items

Phantom DancerSterak's GageHullbreakerBlack Cleaver

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerteleport summoner spell F

Skill Order

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

Runes

PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: TenacityLast Stand
ResolveConditioningOvergrowth
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceHealth 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
1
Q
2
E
3
W
4
E
5
E
6
R
7
E
8
Q
9
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10
Q
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R
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Q
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Q
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W
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W
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R

Guide to Countering Qiyana as Garen

Tips for Playing as Garen against Qiyana

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 Qiyana Counter Stats

Garen Image
Win Rate
52.4 %
VS
Win Rate
47.6 %
Qiyana Image
6
< Kills >
7.8
4.9
< Deaths >
6.6
3.8
< Assists >
5.7
1.38
< Killing Sprees >
1.77
178
< Minions Killed >
146
0.1
< Dragons Killed >
0.21
0.62
< Inhibitors >
0.37
14,090
< Physical Damage >
19,156
216
< Magic Damage >
1,784
4,649
< True Damage >
922
18,956
< Damage Dealt >
21,862
31,041
< Damage Taken >
23,841
12,122
< Gold Earned >
11,971
2.87
< Towers >
1.5
0.03
< Baron Takedowns >
0.05
3,116
< Total Healing >
3,485
15,207
< Experience >
13,904
17
< Vision Score >
18
8
< Wards Placed >
7
138
< Time Dealing CC >
102

How to Counter Qiyana with Garen in LoL

The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several influential Garen vs. Qiyana counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences between the pair. As an example, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Qiyana’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Qiyana..

Garen typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Qiyana. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.

Differences between Garen and Qiyana

Damage Types Compared

Garen
Qiyana
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Garen
Qiyana

Who is Better, Garen or Qiyana?

Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Garen usually wins when trying to fight Qiyana, with a 52.4% win rate. As a result, Garen makes a good counter to Qiyana.

While Garen does have a higher winrate compared to Qiyana, when they face off with one another, Garen also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champion to learn. You should be be fine when picking Garen into Qiyana.

Furthermore, Garen has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Qiyana. 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Garen vs Qiyana matchups, Garen is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.

Garen is an above average counter to Qiyana. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Garen against Qiyana.

Other Champion Matchups Against Garen

Garen Loses Against

LilliaLillia43% winrateMordekaiserMordekaiser43.5% winrateKayleKayle44.1% winrateTrundleTrundle44.7% winrate

Garen Wins Against

YuumiYuumi56.1% winrateNidaleeNidalee54.9% winrateK'SanteK'Sante53.3% winrateEzrealEzreal53.2% winrate

Top Synergies by Role

BrandBrand+ 52.5% 8964 GamesNilahNilah+ 52.5% 1991 GamesKledKled+ 53.8% 262 GamesLilliaLillia+ 54.9% 7886 Games

Additional Information for Garen Players

How We Calculated Our Garen vs Qiyana Build and Stats

For this guide on countering Qiyana as Garen, we analyzed 1,632 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 Qiyana 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.

Other Useful Resources

Garen Build Qiyana Build

Further Insights to Win this Matchup

If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Garen to counter Qiyana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.

Garen most often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Qiyana. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.

The most important items to focus on in your Garen versus Qiyana build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Qiyana than with many other common builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 52.4% when playing against Qiyana with this counter build.

To have the best chance of beating Qiyana as Garen, Garen players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Garen vs Qiyana clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.4% winrate overall.

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