Garen vs Vi
How to Beat Vi as Garen
based on 3,854 Garen vs Vi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Vi Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Vi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vi as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Vi
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 Vi
Vi cannot be stopped while using her ult. Remember to save your displacement effects until after she's done charging.
A fully charged Vault breaker deals double damage. If you see Vi start to charge you should back off or try to dodge it.
Vi will shred your Armor and gain Attack Speed if she manages to hit you three times in a row. Try not to engage in extended brawls with her.
Garen vs Vi Counter Stats
How to Counter Vi with Garen in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some vital Garen vs. Vi counter statistics that can help us appreciate the distinctions between this pair of champions. For instance, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Vi’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Vi..
Garen typically has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Vi. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Garen and Vi
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Who is Better, Garen or Vi?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Garen usually loses when taking on Vi, with a 46.4% win rate. Thus, Garen makes a poor counter to Vi.
While Garen does have a lower winrate compared to Vi, when facing one another, Garen also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Garen into Vi.
Moreover, Garen also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vi. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Garen vs Vi matchups, Vi is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Garen is a garbage counter to Vi. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Garen against Vi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Garen to counter Vi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen usually racks up much more CS compared to Vi. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Garen versus Vi build include Phantom Dancer, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Vi than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 46.4% battling Vi with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Vi as Garen, Garen players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Garen vs Vi face-offs, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.4% win rate overall.
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