Garen vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Garen
based on 2,723 Garen vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Vel'Koz
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 Vel'Koz
Vel'Koz has fairly low mobility and is vulnerable to ganks.
Vel'Koz is very dangerous if left alone in a fight. Try to focus him down early.
Life Form Disintegration Ray can be interrupted by stuns, silences and knockups.
Garen vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Garen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several valuable Garen versus Vel'Koz counter statistics that can help us grasp the distinctions between the two. Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Vel'Koz..
Garen typically has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Vel'Koz. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Garen and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Garen or Vel'Koz?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Garen usually loses when playing against Vel'Koz, with a 46.8% win rate. Thus, Garen makes a bad counter to Vel'Koz.
While Garen does have a lower win rate compared to Vel'Koz, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Garen into Vel'Koz.
Additionally, Garen also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Garen vs Vel'Koz matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Garen is a trash counter for Vel'Koz. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Garen against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen to counter Vel'Koz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen on average picks up more CS relative to Vel'Koz. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions 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 values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Garen versus Vel'Koz build consist of Phantom Dancer, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better countering Vel'Koz than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 46.8% when playing against Vel'Koz with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Vel'Koz 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 sets players picked for Garen vs Vel'Koz counters, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.8% win rate overall.
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