Hecarim vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Hecarim
based on 3,227 Hecarim vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Hecarim vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Hecarim vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Hecarim against Garen
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
Advice to Win Against Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Hecarim vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Hecarim in LoL
The stats provided here feature several vital Hecarim against Garen counter stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Hecarim’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Hecarim may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Garen. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Hecarim usually has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Garen. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Hecarim and Garen
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Who is Better, Hecarim or Garen?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Hecarim usually wins when playing against Garen, with a 51.0% win rate. Thus, Hecarim makes a good counter for Garen.
While Hecarim does have a higher win rate than Garen, when on opposite teams, Hecarim also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Hecarim into Garen.
Additionally, Hecarim also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Hecarim vs Garen matchups, Hecarim is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Hecarim is a decent counter for Garen. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Hecarim against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Hecarim in order to counter Garen during both the lane 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 will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hecarim often racks up a lot less CS compared to Garen. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Hecarim versus Garen build include Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Hecarim included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs Garen than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Hecarim had an average win rate of 51.0% when countering Garen with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Garen as Hecarim, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Hecarim vs Garen counter picks, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.0% win rate overall.
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