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

Garen vs Rakan

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

based on 3,772 Garen vs Rakan matchups
Win Rate
45.5 %
K/D/A
1.96
Pick Rate
2.8 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

We generate our counter statistics from the millions of ranked League matches that we get from Riot Games each week. This guide on how to beat Rakan as Garen came out of an analysis of 3772 ranked games where both champs faced each other. This particular counter matchup is fairly rare. Garen has to counter Rakan in only 2.8% of his games.

Garen vs Rakan Matchup Summary

Unfortunately, Garen does a terrible job of countering Rakan. Typically, he wins a lowly 45.5% of matches the champs face off with each other in. In Garen against Rakan games, Garen’s team is 0.0% more expected to obtain first blood. This indicates that he most likely will be able to get first blood versus Rakan.

Best Garen vs Rakan Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's BladeHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Ruby CrystalDagger

Core Garen Items

~22 Mins
Sterak's GageTrinity ForceStridebreaker

Optional Items

Spear of ShojinKaenic RookernJak'Sho, The ProteanPhantom Dancer

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerdot 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

SorceryPhase RushNimbus CloakCelerityGathering Storm
ResolveDemolishSecond Wind
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
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Q
2
E
3
W
4
E
5
E
6
R
7
E
8
Q
9
E
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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 Rakan as Garen

Tips for Playing as Garen against Rakan

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 Rakan

Champions with crowd control that can be applied quickly excel against Rakan.

Catching Rakan with no allies around severely inhibits his mobility. Try to find him alone.

Rakan's movement abilities forecast their destination. Try to use this to your advantage.

Garen vs Rakan Counter Stats

Garen Image
Win Rate
45.5 %
VS
Win Rate
54.5 %
Rakan Image
5.7
< Kills >
1.6
5
< Deaths >
5
4.1
< Assists >
14.4
1.3
< Killing Sprees >
0.25
177
< Minions Killed >
32
0.1
< Dragons Killed >
0.05
0.58
< Inhibitors >
0.53
13,806
< Physical Damage >
1,274
220
< Magic Damage >
4,997
4,501
< True Damage >
751
18,528
< Damage Dealt >
7,022
30,677
< Damage Taken >
19,452
11,943
< Gold Earned >
8,296
2.74
< Towers >
1.9
0.02
< Baron Takedowns >
0.01
3,067
< Total Healing >
5,897
14,893
< Experience >
10,475
17
< Vision Score >
63
8
< Wards Placed >
30
142
< Time Dealing CC >
183

How to Counter Rakan with Garen in LoL

The stats provided here underscore several valuable Garen versus Rakan matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences between the two. Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Rakan. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.

Garen typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Rakan. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.

Differences between Garen and Rakan

Damage Types Compared

Garen
Rakan
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Garen
Rakan

Who is Better, Garen or Rakan?

Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Garen usually loses when playing against Rakan, with a 45.5% win rate. As a result, Garen makes a bad counter for Rakan.

While Garen does have a much lower win rate compared to Rakan, when facing one another, Garen also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Garen into Rakan.

Additionally, Garen has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.

While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Garen vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.

Garen is a terribly counter to Rakan. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Garen against Rakan.

Additional Information for Garen Players

How We Calculated Our Garen vs Rakan Build and Stats

For this guide on countering Rakan as Garen, we analyzed 3,772 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 Rakan 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 learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to counter Rakan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.

Garen most often picks up much more CS compared to Rakan. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.

The ideal items to prioritize in your Garen versus Rakan build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Garen used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs. Rakan than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 45.5% when countering Rakan with this build.

To have the greatest chance of crushing Rakan as Garen, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Demolish, and Second Wind runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Garen vs Rakan fights, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.5% win rate overall.

By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Rakan as Garen are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.