Heimerdinger vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Heimerdinger
based on 2,165 Heimerdinger vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Heimerdinger vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger against Garen
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Heimerdinger in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several critical Heimerdinger against Garen matchup stats that can help you grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Heimerdinger may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Garen..
Heimerdinger usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives less damage than Garen. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Heimerdinger and Garen
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Who is Better, Heimerdinger or Garen?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Heimerdinger usually fairs equally well when taking on Garen, with a 50.8% win rate. Thus, Heimerdinger makes an ok counter for Garen.
While Heimerdinger does have a higher win rate compared to Garen, when on opposite teams, Heimerdinger also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Heimerdinger into Garenas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Heimerdinger also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Heimerdinger vs Garen matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Heimerdinger is a decent counter to Garen. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Heimerdinger against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Heimerdinger in order to counter Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Heimerdinger often gets a similar amount of CS as Garen. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Heimerdinger versus Garen build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Luden's Companion. When Heimerdinger bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better versus Garen than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average winrate of 50.8% when countering Garen with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Garen as Heimerdinger, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Heimerdinger vs Garen matchups, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.8% winrate overall.
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