Kha'Zix vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Kha'Zix
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Kha'Zix vs Garen Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Garen as Kha'Zix
Tips for Playing as Kha'Zix against Garen
Enemies are considered isolated if they have no allies within a short distance. The damage of Taste Their Fear is massively increased against these targets.
Unseen Threat activates when Kha'Zix cannot be seen by the enemy team. Reactivate by using brush or Void Assault. Don't forget to apply Unseen Threat by autoattacking enemy champions.
Kha'Zix has a great deal of freedom to choose where and when to fight. Pick your battles carefully to succeed.
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.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
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.
Kha'Zix vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Kha'Zix in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some valuable Kha'Zix vs. Garen counter statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Kha'Zix’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kha'Zix may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Garen..
Kha'Zix normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Garen. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kha'Zix and Garen
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Who is Better, Kha'Zix or Garen?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kha'Zix usually loses when facing off against Garen, with a 46.7% win rate. Thus, Kha'Zix makes a poor counter for Garen.
While Kha'Zix does have a lower winrate compared to Garen, when on opposite teams, Kha'Zix also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Kha'Zix into Garen.
Furthermore, Kha'Zix 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 fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kha'Zix vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Kha'Zix is a garbage counter for Garen. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kha'Zix against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kha'Zix in order to counter Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kha'Zix most often racks up a lot less CS relative to Garen. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Kha'Zix versus Garen build consist of Duskblade of Draktharr, The Collector, and Prowler's Claw. When Kha'Zix used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Garen than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Kha'Zix boasted an average win rate of 46.7% when countering Garen with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Garen as Kha'Zix, Kha'Zix players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Kha'Zix vs Garen clashes, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.7% win rate overall.
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