Kindred vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Kindred
based on 2,706 Kindred vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kindred vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Kindred vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Kindred
Tips for Playing as Kindred against Garen
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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.
Kindred vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Kindred in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several important Kindred against Garen matchup stats that can help you understand the distinctions between the pair. Kindred’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kindred may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Garen..
Kindred normally has a similar longest kill spree as their enemy does. On average, they receives a similar amount of damage to Garen. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kindred and Garen
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Who is Better, Kindred or Garen?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kindred usually fairs equally well when playing against Garen, with a 49.6% win rate. Thus, Kindred makes an ok counter for Garen.
While Kindred does have a lower winrate compared to Garen, when they face off with one another, Kindred also has a lower learning curve that makes them a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kindred into Garen.
Moreover, Kindred has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kindred vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Kindred is a somewhat poor counter for Garen. Focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Kindred against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kindred to counter Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kindred on average picks up a lot less CS compared to Garen. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions 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, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Kindred versus Garen build include Trinity Force, Wit's End, and Kraken Slayer. When Kindred combined at least these three items in their build, they did a lot better versus Garen than with most other typical builds. In fact, Kindred boasted an average win rate of 49.6% battling Garen with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Garen as Kindred, you should equip the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Kindred vs Garen counterpicks, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Garen as Kindred are given for all skill levels combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.