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

Garen vs Taliyah

How to Beat Taliyah as Garen in LoLGaren is in the s tier of champions
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How to Beat Taliyah as Garen

based on 1,327 Garen vs Taliyah matchups
Win Rate
51.2 %
K/D/A
2
Pick Rate
1 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

At MOBA Champion, we analyze millions of recently ranked League of Legends rounds each week. Within our database, Garen faced off against Taliyah 1327 times. With so many matchups for Garen vs Taliyah gives us confidence in our capacity to produce informative data and a solid build to destroy Taliyah. This pairing is somewhat rare. Garen has to counter Taliyah in only 1.0% of his matches.

Garen vs Taliyah Matchup Summary

Garen does a decent job of countering Taliyah. Normally, he wins a acceptable 51.2% of matches the champs face each other in. In Garen versus Taliyah rounds, Garen’s team is 0.0% more likely to earn first blood, indicating that he probably will be able to get first blood versus Taliyah.

Best Garen vs Taliyah Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's ShieldHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Long SwordBerserker's Greaves

Core Garen Items

~22 Mins
Sterak's GageTrinity ForceStridebreaker

Optional Items

Black CleaverDead Man's PlateForce of NatureHullbreaker

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerdot summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Garen to level upe
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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
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E
2
Q
3
W
4
E
5
E
6
R
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Guide to Countering Taliyah as Garen

Tips for Playing as Garen against Taliyah

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 Taliyah

When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.

Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!

Garen vs Taliyah Counter Stats

Garen Image
Win Rate
51.2 %
VS
Win Rate
48.8 %
Taliyah Image
6
< Kills >
5.8
4.9
< Deaths >
6.2
3.8
< Assists >
8.2
1.38
< Killing Sprees >
1.3
183
< Minions Killed >
126
0.12
< Dragons Killed >
0.54
0.62
< Inhibitors >
0.43
13,656
< Physical Damage >
771
222
< Magic Damage >
20,544
4,600
< True Damage >
1,144
18,478
< Damage Dealt >
22,460
31,778
< Damage Taken >
21,089
12,213
< Gold Earned >
12,007
2.83
< Towers >
1.68
0.02
< Baron Takedowns >
0.14
3,144
< Total Healing >
4,355
15,473
< Experience >
14,234
18
< Vision Score >
22
8
< Wards Placed >
9
139
< Time Dealing CC >
555

How to Counter Taliyah with Garen in LoL

The stats provided here emphasize some vital Garen against Taliyah counter statistics that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the two. Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Taliyah’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Taliyah..

Garen usually has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Taliyah. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.

Differences between Garen and Taliyah

Damage Types Compared

Garen
Taliyah
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Garen
Taliyah

Who is Better, Garen or Taliyah?

Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Garen usually wins when taking on Taliyah, with a 51.2% win rate. Therefore, Garen makes a good counter to Taliyah.

While Garen does have a higher win rate compared to Taliyah, when they face off with one another, Garen also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Garen into Taliyah.

Furthermore, Garen has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taliyah. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.

While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Garen vs Taliyah matchups, Garen is the better champ with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.

Garen is a decent counter to Taliyah. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Garen against Taliyah.

Additional Information for Garen Players

How We Calculated Our Garen vs Taliyah Build and Stats

For this guide on countering Taliyah as Garen, we analyzed 1,327 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 Taliyah 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 Taliyah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.

Garen often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Taliyah. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.

The best items to use in your Garen versus Taliyah build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Garen combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when facing Taliyah than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 51.2% when countering Taliyah with these items in his kit.

To have the greatest probability of defeating Taliyah as Garen, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Garen vs Taliyah counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.2% winrate overall.

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