Thresh vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Thresh
based on 5,005 Thresh vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Garen
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Thresh in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some important Thresh vs. Garen counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Garen. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Thresh usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Garen. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Thresh or Garen?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Thresh usually fairs equally well when facing off against Garen, with a 50.6% win rate. Thus, Thresh makes an ok counter to Garen.
While Thresh does have a higher winrate compared to Garen, when on opposite teams, Thresh also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Thresh into Garenas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Thresh also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Garen matchups, Thresh is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Thresh is a decent counter for Garen. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Thresh against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Thresh in order to counter Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh usually accumulates a lot less CS compared to Garen. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Thresh versus Garen build consist of Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Garen than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 50.6% battling Garen with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Garen as Thresh, Thresh players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Thresh vs Garen fights, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.6% win rate overall.
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