K'Sante vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as K'Sante
based on 2,049 K'Sante vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Garen
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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.
K'Sante vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with K'Sante in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some valuable K'Sante versus Garen matchup stats that can help you realize the differences between these two champions. As an example, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Garen..
K'Sante often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than their matchup does. On average, they receives a similar amount of damage to Garen. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between K'Sante and Garen
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Garen?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when playing against Garen, with a 46.7% win rate. As a result, K'Sante makes a poor counter for Garen.
While K'Sante does have a lower win rate compared to Garen, when facing one another, K'Sante also has a much greater learning curve that makes them a more challenging character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking K'Sante into Garenas their relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, K'Sante also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
K'Sante is a bad counter for Garen. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as K'Sante against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master K'Sante 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 mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante most often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Garen. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your K'Sante versus Garen build consist of Unending Despair, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed significantly better vs. Garen than with most other common counter builds. In fact, K'Sante boasted an average win rate of 46.7% battling Garen with these items in their kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Garen as K'Sante, K'Sante players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for K'Sante vs Garen clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.7% win rate overall.
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