Kayn vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Kayn
based on 6,345 Kayn vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayn vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Kayn vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Kayn
Tips for Playing as Kayn against Garen
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
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.
Kayn vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Kayn in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some influential Kayn against Garen matchup stats that may help you understand the distinctions between the two. For instance, Kayn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kayn may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Garen..
Kayn usually has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. On average, he takes more damage than Garen. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kayn and Garen
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Who is Better, Kayn or Garen?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kayn usually fairs equally well when taking on Garen, with a 49.1% win rate. Therefore, Kayn makes an ok counter for Garen.
While Kayn does have a lower winrate compared to Garen, when on opposite teams, Kayn also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kayn into Garenas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Kayn has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Kayn vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Kayn is a somewhat poor counter to Garen. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kayn against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kayn 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 listen to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayn most often gets a lot less CS as Garen. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Kayn versus Garen build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Profane Hydra. When Kayn incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Garen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Kayn had an average win rate of 49.1% when playing against Garen with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Garen as Kayn, Kayn players should use the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Kayn vs Garen LoL games, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.1% win rate overall.
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