Rek'Sai vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Rek'Sai
based on 635 Rek'Sai vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rek'Sai vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Rek'Sai vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Rek'Sai against Garen
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
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.
Rek'Sai vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Rek'Sai in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several important Rek'Sai vs. Garen matchup statistics that may help us grasp the differences between the pair. As an example, Rek'Sai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Garen’s ratio of NaN, showing that Rek'Sai may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Garen..
Rek'Sai often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Garen. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Rek'Sai and Garen
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Who is Better, Rek'Sai or Garen?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Rek'Sai usually loses when trying to fight Garen, with a 48.0% win rate. Thus, Rek'Sai makes a bad counter to Garen.
While Rek'Sai does have a lower winrate than Garen, when they face off with one another, Rek'Sai also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Rek'Sai into Garen.
Additionally, Rek'Sai also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Rek'Sai 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 team members during late stage team fights.
Rek'Sai is a trash counter to Garen. Focus your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Rek'Sai against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Rek'Sai to counter Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rek'Sai on average picks up a lot less CS compared to Garen. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly 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 case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Rek'Sai versus Garen build consist of Black Cleaver, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Titanic Hydra. When Rek'Sai combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better countering Garen than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Rek'Sai had an average winrate of 48.0% when countering Garen with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating Garen as Rek'Sai, Rek'Sai players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Rek'Sai vs Garen LoL games, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.0% winrate overall.
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