Irelia vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Irelia
based on 3,325 Irelia vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Garen
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Irelia in LoL
The stats provided here show several strategic Irelia versus Garen counter stats that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Garen..
Irelia often has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Garen. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Irelia and Garen
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Who is Better, Irelia or Garen?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Irelia usually fairs equally well when taking on Garen, with a 49.7% win rate. As a result, Irelia makes an ok counter to Garen.
While Irelia does have a lower win rate than Garen, when facing one another, Irelia also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Irelia into Garen.
Furthermore, Irelia has some amount of utility and CC, 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 isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Irelia is a somewhat poor counter to Garen. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Irelia against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Irelia to counter Garen during both the lane 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 mind the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Garen. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Irelia versus Garen build include Sterak's Gage, Blade of The Ruined King, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Garen than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Irelia boasted an average winrate of 49.7% when countering Garen with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Garen as Irelia, you should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Irelia vs Garen fights, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.7% win rate overall.
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