Nunu & Willump vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Nunu & Willump
based on 3,200 Nunu & Willump vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Garen
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
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.
Nunu & Willump vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some critical Nunu & Willump versus Garen matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences between the pair. Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Garen. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Nunu & Willump usually has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. On average, he takes more damage than Garen. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Garen?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when taking on Garen, with a 47.6% win rate. Thus, Nunu & Willump makes a bad counter for Garen.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower winrate than Garen, when they face off with one another, Nunu & Willump also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Nunu & Willump into Garen.
Moreover, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Nunu & Willump is a terribly counter to Garen. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nunu & Willump against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump in order 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump usually accumulates a lot less CS as Garen. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Nunu & Willump versus Garen build include Frozen Heart, Liandry's Torment, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nunu & Willump combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs Garen than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average win rate of 47.6% when countering Garen with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Garen as Nunu & Willump, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Nunu & Willump vs Garen counter picks, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.6% win rate overall.
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