Lissandra vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Lissandra
based on 1,577 Lissandra vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lissandra vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Lissandra vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Lissandra
Tips for Playing as Lissandra against Garen
Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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.
Lissandra vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Lissandra in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some valuable Lissandra vs. Garen counter statistics that may help you realize the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. For instance, Lissandra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Garen’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Lissandra may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Garen. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Lissandra typically has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Garen. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lissandra and Garen
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Who is Better, Lissandra or Garen?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lissandra usually loses when facing off against Garen, with a 48.9% win rate. As a result, Lissandra makes a poor counter for Garen.
While Lissandra does have a lower win rate than Garen, when facing one another, Lissandra also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Lissandra into Garen.
Furthermore, Lissandra has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Lissandra vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Lissandra is a somewhat poor counter to Garen. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Lissandra against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Lissandra in order to counter Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lissandra often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Garen. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Lissandra versus Garen build consist of Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Lissandra incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better countering Garen than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Lissandra had an average win rate of 48.9% battling Garen with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Garen as Lissandra, you should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Lissandra vs Garen battles, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.9% win rate overall.
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