Kai'Sa vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Kai'Sa
based on 5,605 Kai'Sa vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Garen
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stats shown here feature several significant Kai'Sa vs. Garen matchup stats that can help you appreciate the differences between the two. Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Garen..
Kai'Sa usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Garen. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Garen
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Garen?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually fairs equally well when playing against Garen, with a 49.4% win rate. As a result, Kai'Sa makes an ok counter to Garen.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower win rate compared to Garen, when they face off with one another, Kai'Sa also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Kai'Sa into Garen.
Additionally, Kai'Sa has almost no 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Kai'Sa is a somewhat poor counter for Garen. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kai'Sa against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Garen. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Kai'Sa versus Garen build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when facing Garen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average win rate of 49.4% when countering Garen with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Garen as Kai'Sa, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Kai'Sa vs Garen matchups, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.4% win rate overall.
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