Tristana vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Tristana
based on 4,794 Tristana vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tristana vs Garen Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Garen as Tristana
Tips for Playing as Tristana against Garen
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Tristana in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several important Tristana versus Garen counter statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Garen..
Tristana usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Garen. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Tristana or Garen?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Tristana usually fairs equally well when taking on Garen, with a 49.8% win rate. Therefore, Tristana makes an ok counter for Garen.
While Tristana does have a lower winrate than Garen, when on opposite teams, Tristana also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Tristana into Garen.
Furthermore, Tristana also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Tristana is a somewhat poor counter to Garen. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Tristana against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Tristana in order 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana on average racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Garen. Champions who typically don't earn 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 well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The best items to have in your Tristana versus Garen build include Phantom Dancer, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Tristana included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when facing Garen than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Tristana boasted an average win rate of 49.8% when playing against Garen with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Garen as Tristana, you should use the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Tristana vs Garen matchups, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.8% winrate overall.
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