Lee Sin vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Lee Sin
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Lee Sin vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Lee Sin vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin against Garen
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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.
Lee Sin vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Lee Sin in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some vital Lee Sin vs. Garen matchup statistics that may help you explain the differences between the two. As an example, Lee Sin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Lee Sin may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Garen..
Lee Sin usually has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. On average, he takes more damage than Garen. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lee Sin and Garen
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Who is Better, Lee Sin or Garen?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Lee Sin usually loses when playing against Garen, with a 47.6% win rate. As a result, Lee Sin makes a poor counter to Garen.
While Lee Sin does have a lower win rate than Garen, when they face off with one another, Lee Sin also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Lee Sin into Garen.
Furthermore, Lee Sin has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lee Sin vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Lee Sin is a garbage counter for Garen. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Lee Sin against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Lee Sin 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 pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lee Sin often gets a lot less CS compared to Garen. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They 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 have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Lee Sin versus Garen build include Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Lee Sin bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Garen than with most other typical builds. In fact, Lee Sin boasted an average winrate of 47.6% when playing against Garen with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Garen as Lee Sin, Lee Sin players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Lee Sin vs Garen battles, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.6% win rate overall.
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