Poppy vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Poppy
based on 2,052 Poppy vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Poppy vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Poppy vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Poppy
Tips for Playing as Poppy against Garen
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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.
Poppy vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Poppy in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some critical Poppy vs. Garen counter stats that can help you understand the differences between these two champs. For instance, Poppy’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Poppy may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Garen. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Poppy typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Garen. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Poppy and Garen
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Who is Better, Poppy or Garen?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Poppy usually loses when trying to fight Garen, with a 48.8% win rate. Thus, Poppy makes a poor counter for Garen.
While Poppy does have a lower win rate than Garen, when facing one another, Poppy also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Poppy into Garen.
Moreover, Poppy has a great 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Poppy 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Poppy is a somewhat poor counter for Garen. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Poppy against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Poppy 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Poppy often accumulates less CS as Garen. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Poppy versus Garen build include Unending Despair, Kaenic Rookern, and Sunfire Aegis. When Poppy incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Garen than with most other typical builds. In fact, Poppy boasted an average winrate of 48.8% when countering Garen with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Garen as Poppy, you should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Poppy vs Garen counterpicks, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.8% winrate overall.
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