Garen vs Varus
How to Beat Varus as Garen
based on 5,289 Garen vs Varus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Varus Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Varus as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Varus
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 Varus
When he gets a kill or assist, Varus temporarily gains Attack Speed and is much more dangerous.
You'll get bound in place if a tendril from Varus' ultimate, Chain of Corruption, reaches you. You can cause the tendril to die however by running far enough away from it.
If you are affected by Blight, Varus' abilities will deal extra damage to you.
Garen vs Varus Counter Stats
How to Counter Varus with Garen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some strategic Garen versus Varus counter stats that may help us figure out the differences between the two. Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Varus’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Varus..
Garen usually has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Varus. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Varus
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Who is Better, Garen or Varus?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Garen usually fairs equally well when facing off against Varus, with a 50.6% win rate. Thus, Garen makes an ok counter to Varus.
While Garen does have a higher winrate compared to Varus, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Garen into Varus.
Furthermore, Garen has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Varus. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Garen vs Varus matchups, Garen is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Garen is a decent counter for Varus. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Garen against Varus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen to counter Varus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Varus. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Garen versus Varus build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Stridebreaker. When Garen included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better versus Varus than with most other common builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 50.6% battling Varus with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Varus as Garen, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Garen vs Varus counters, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.6% win rate overall.
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