Garen vs Thresh
How to Beat Thresh as Garen
based on 5,005 Garen vs Thresh matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Thresh Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Thresh as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Thresh
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 Thresh
Intentionally breaking a wall of The Box can allow a vulnerable ally to escape unscathed.
Thresh's Death Sentence has a long cast time. Watch for the cast to begin to take evasive actions.
Thresh relies on collecting souls for a portion of his defense and damage. Try punishing him when he moves to collect them.
Garen vs Thresh Counter Stats
How to Counter Thresh with Garen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some valuable Garen against Thresh counter stats that may help you grasp the distinctions between these two champs. For instance, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Thresh’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Thresh. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Garen normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Thresh. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Thresh
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Who is Better, Garen or Thresh?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Garen usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Thresh, with a 49.4% win rate. Thus, Garen makes an ok counter to Thresh.
While Garen does have a lower winrate than Thresh, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Garen into Thresh.
Moreover, Garen also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Thresh. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Garen vs Thresh matchups, Thresh is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Garen is a somewhat poor counter to Thresh. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Garen against Thresh.
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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 Thresh during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen most often gets much more CS relative to Thresh. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Garen versus Thresh build consist of Hullbreaker, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Thresh than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 49.4% battling Thresh with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Thresh as Garen, Garen players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Celerity runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Garen vs Thresh counterpicks, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Thresh as Garen are given for every ranked division. To scope the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.