Garen vs Vex
How to Beat Vex as Garen
based on 2,575 Garen vs Vex matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Vex Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Vex as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Vex
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.
Garen vs Vex Counter Stats
How to Counter Vex with Garen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several critical Garen against Vex counter stats that may help you realize the differences between the two. For instance, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vex’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Vex..
Garen usually has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Vex. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Garen or Vex?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Garen usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Vex, with a 49.6% win rate. Therefore, Garen makes an ok counter to Vex.
While Garen does have a lower win rate than Vex, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Garen into Vex.
Additionally, Garen has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vex. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Garen vs Vex matchups, Vex is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Garen is a somewhat poor counter to Vex. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Garen against Vex.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to counter Vex during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen usually picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Vex. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Garen versus Vex build consist of Trinity Force, Sundered Sky, and Stridebreaker. When Garen included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Vex than with most other common builds. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 49.6% battling Vex with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Vex as Garen, Garen players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Garen vs Vex counter picks, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.6% win rate overall.
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