Garen vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Garen
based on 4,048 Garen vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Xin Zhao
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 Xin Zhao
Xin Zhao relies heavily on his Three Talon Strikes for damage and cooldown resets, so preventing him from finishing his combo will have a dramatic effect.
Xin Zhao is a powerful initiator with both his charge and ultimate dealing damage to all units around him. Try having your team stay spread out until he's used his ultimate.
Garen vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Garen in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some important Garen versus Xin Zhao counter stats that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Xin Zhao..
Garen often has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Xin Zhao. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Garen or Xin Zhao?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Garen usually loses when taking on Xin Zhao, with a 47.4% win rate. As a result, Garen makes a bad counter for Xin Zhao.
While Garen does have a lower win rate than Xin Zhao, when they face off with one another, Garen also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Garen into Xin Zhao.
Furthermore, Garen has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Garen vs Xin Zhao matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Garen is a garbage counter for Xin Zhao. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Garen against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Garen to counter Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen most often picks up much more CS relative to Xin Zhao. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Garen versus Xin Zhao build consist of Phantom Dancer, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Xin Zhao than with many other common builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 47.4% when playing against Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Xin Zhao as Garen, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Garen vs Xin Zhao counters, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.4% win rate overall.
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