Kassadin vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Kassadin
based on 1,673 Kassadin vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kassadin vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Kassadin vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Kassadin against Garen
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Kassadin in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some vital Kassadin against Garen counter stats that can help you realize the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Kassadin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Garen’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kassadin may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Garen..
Kassadin usually has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Garen. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kassadin and Garen
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Who is Better, Kassadin or Garen?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kassadin usually wins when trying to fight Garen, with a 52.2% win rate. As a result, Kassadin makes a good counter for Garen.
While Kassadin does have a higher win rate compared to Garen, when they face off with one another, Kassadin also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Kassadin into Garenas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kassadin has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kassadin vs Garen matchups, Kassadin is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Kassadin is a good counter to Garen. Focus your strategy on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Kassadin against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kassadin to counter Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kassadin usually racks up a similar amount of CS as Garen. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Kassadin versus Garen build include Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Stormsurge. When Kassadin combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Garen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Kassadin boasted an average win rate of 52.2% when playing against Garen with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Garen as Kassadin, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Kassadin vs Garen LoL games, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.2% winrate overall.
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