Garen vs Viktor
How to Beat Viktor as Garen
based on 1,841 Garen vs Viktor matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Viktor Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Viktor Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Viktor as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Viktor
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 Viktor
Be careful about how close you let Viktor get to you. Viktor's control of the battlefield increases with his proximity to his opponent.
Be aware of how many augments Viktor has upgraded by looking at the color of the light on his staff (purple, yellow, blue, red).
Garen vs Viktor Counter Stats
How to Counter Viktor with Garen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several valuable Garen vs. Viktor counter statistics that can help us explain the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Viktor’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Viktor..
Garen typically has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Typically, he takes more damage than Viktor. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Viktor
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Who is Better, Garen or Viktor?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Garen usually fairs equally well when facing off against Viktor, with a 49.3% win rate. Thus, Garen makes an ok counter to Viktor.
While Garen does have a lower win rate compared to Viktor, when facing one another, Garen also has a much 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 Viktor.
Additionally, Garen has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Viktor. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Viktor matchups, Viktor is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Garen is a somewhat poor counter to Viktor. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Garen against Viktor.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Garen to counter Viktor during both the lane 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 listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen typically accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Viktor. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions 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, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Garen versus Viktor build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs. Viktor than with many other common builds. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 49.3% when playing against Viktor with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Viktor as Garen, Garen players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Garen vs Viktor clashes, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.3% winrate overall.
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