Neeko vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Neeko
based on 3,988 Neeko vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Neeko vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Neeko vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Neeko
Tips for Playing as Neeko against Garen
You can set her passive to use hotkeys in the options menu. The default is Shift+F1~F5
Try to use Inherent Glamour sparingly, ineffective uses will put enemies on the alert.
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.
Neeko vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Neeko in LoL
The stats shown here feature several significant Neeko against Garen counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences between the pair. As an example, Neeko’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Neeko may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Garen. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Neeko often has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Typically, she receives less damage than Garen. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Neeko and Garen
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Who is Better, Neeko or Garen?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Neeko usually fairs equally well when playing against Garen, with a 50.3% win rate. Therefore, Neeko makes an ok counter for Garen.
While Neeko does have a higher win rate compared to Garen, when on opposite teams, Neeko also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Neeko into Garen.
Furthermore, Neeko has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Neeko vs Garen matchups, Neeko is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Neeko is a decent counter for Garen. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Neeko against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Neeko to counter Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Neeko often picks up less CS relative to Garen. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Neeko versus Garen build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Neeko incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting Garen than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Neeko had an average win rate of 50.3% when countering Garen with this counter build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Garen as Neeko, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Neeko vs Garen matchups, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.3% win rate overall.
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