Garen vs Sivir
How to Beat Sivir as Garen
based on 1,889 Garen vs Sivir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Sivir Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Sivir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sivir as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Sivir
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 Sivir
When laning against Sivir, it is possible to throw off the timing of her Spell Shield by faking an advance, then backing off.
Sivir is a powerful pushing champion, so leaving her unattended in a lane for too long will often result in your turrets being destroyed.
Boomerang Blade costs a lot of mana to cast, so dodging it sets Sivir back. If it hits you on the way out, avoid its path on the way back.
Garen vs Sivir Counter Stats
How to Counter Sivir with Garen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some influential Garen against Sivir matchup statistics that may help us figure out the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sivir’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Sivir..
Garen usually has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Sivir. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Sivir
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Who is Better, Garen or Sivir?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Garen usually wins when facing off against Sivir, with a 51.4% win rate. Thus, Garen makes a good counter for Sivir.
While Garen does have a higher winrate compared to Sivir, when they face off with one another, Garen also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Garen into Sivir.
Furthermore, Garen also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sivir. 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 Sivir matchups, Garen is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Garen is a decent counter to Sivir. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Garen against Sivir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to counter Sivir 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 tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Sivir. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Garen versus Sivir build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Sivir than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 51.4% when countering Sivir with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating Sivir as Garen, Garen players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Garen vs Sivir counterpicks, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.4% winrate overall.
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