Hwei vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Hwei
based on 6,199 Hwei vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Hwei vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Hwei vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Hwei
Tips for Playing as Hwei against Garen
Calm down, breathe, and focus.
Each stroke requires precision and intention.
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.
Hwei vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Hwei in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some critical Hwei versus Garen counter stats that can help us explain the differences between this set of champions. For instance, Hwei’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Hwei may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Garen. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Hwei typically has a similar longest killing spree as their enemy does. Commonly, they takes less damage than Garen. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Hwei and Garen
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Who is Better, Hwei or Garen?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Hwei usually loses when playing against Garen, with a 47.5% win rate. Therefore, Hwei makes a poor counter for Garen.
While Hwei does have a lower winrate than Garen, when they face off with one another, Hwei also has a much greater learning curve that makes them a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Hwei into Garenas their relative depth means you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Hwei also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Hwei vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Hwei is a bad counter to Garen. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Hwei against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Hwei in order to counter Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hwei typically gets a similar amount of CS as Garen. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Hwei versus Garen build include Seraph's Embrace, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Hwei used at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better against Garen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Hwei boasted an average winrate of 47.5% battling Garen with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Garen as Hwei, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Gathering Storm, and Manaflow Band runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Hwei vs Garen counterpicks, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.5% win rate overall.
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