Malphite vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Malphite
based on 4,996 Malphite vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malphite vs Garen Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Garen as Malphite
Tips for Playing as Malphite against Garen
Despite his abilities scaling on Armor, some games require Malphite to get Magic Resist. When those games occur, try getting Aegis of the Legion, Mercury's Treads, and Guardian Angel.
Armor naturally reduces the rate that attacks go through Granite Shield, so Brutal Strikes will strengthen the shield against physical damage.
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.
Malphite vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Malphite in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several strategic Malphite vs. Garen matchup statistics that can help us figure out the distinctions between the pair. Malphite’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Malphite may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Garen. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Malphite normally has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. On average, he takes less damage than Garen. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Malphite or Garen?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Malphite usually fairs equally well when facing off against Garen, with a 50.9% win rate. As a result, Malphite makes an ok counter for Garen.
While Malphite does have a higher winrate compared to Garen, when facing one another, Malphite also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Malphite into Garen.
Furthermore, Malphite also has a great 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Malphite vs Garen matchups, Malphite is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Malphite is a decent counter for Garen. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Malphite against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Malphite in order to counter Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malphite often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Garen. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Malphite versus Garen build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Malphite bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better versus Garen than with most other common builds. In fact, Malphite had an average win rate of 50.9% battling Garen with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Garen as Malphite, Malphite players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Malphite vs Garen LoL games, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.9% winrate overall.
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