Orianna vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Orianna
based on 1,776 Orianna vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Orianna vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Orianna vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Orianna
Tips for Playing as Orianna against Garen
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
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.
Orianna vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Orianna in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some significant Orianna vs. Garen counter stats that may help you interpret the distinctions between the two. As an example, Orianna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Garen’s ratio of NaN, showing that Orianna may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Garen. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Orianna usually has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. On average, she takes less damage than Garen. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Orianna and Garen
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Who is Better, Orianna or Garen?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Orianna usually loses when facing off against Garen, with a 48.8% win rate. As a result, Orianna makes a poor counter for Garen.
While Orianna does have a lower winrate compared to Garen, when they face off with one another, Orianna also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Orianna into Garenas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Orianna has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Orianna 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.
Orianna is a somewhat poor counter for Garen. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Orianna against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Orianna in order to counter Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Orianna typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Garen. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well 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 case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Orianna versus Garen build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better versus Garen than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Orianna boasted an average winrate of 48.8% battling Garen with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Garen as Orianna, Orianna players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Orianna vs Garen fights, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.8% win rate overall.
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