Garen vs Xerath
How to Beat Xerath as Garen
based on 5,292 Garen vs Xerath matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Xerath Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xerath as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Xerath
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 Xerath
Xerath's range can be intimidating, but most champions who close distance with him can trade favorably.
Banshee's Veil will make it much harder for Xerath to land Shocking Orb on you.
Xerath takes a long time to engage Rite of the Arcane. Watch for his spellcast animation and start dodging.
Garen vs Xerath Counter Stats
How to Counter Xerath with Garen in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some significant Garen against Xerath counter statistics that may help us explain the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xerath’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Xerath..
Garen usually has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Xerath. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Xerath
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Who is Better, Garen or Xerath?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Garen usually fairs equally well when playing against Xerath, with a 49.0% win rate. Thus, Garen makes an ok counter for Xerath.
While Garen does have a lower winrate than Xerath, when facing one another, Garen also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Garen into Xerath.
Additionally, Garen also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xerath. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Garen vs Xerath matchups, Xerath is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Garen is a somewhat poor counter to Xerath. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Garen against Xerath.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen to counter Xerath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen typically picks up more CS relative to Xerath. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have 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 large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Garen versus Xerath build include Dead Man's Plate, Sundered Sky, and Stridebreaker. When Garen included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Xerath than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 49.0% when countering Xerath with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Xerath as Garen, you should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Garen vs Xerath battles, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Xerath as Garen are given for every ranked division. To scope the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.