Vel'Koz vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Vel'Koz
based on 2,723 Vel'Koz vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Garen
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
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.
Vel'Koz vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several vital Vel'Koz vs. Garen matchup statistics that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Garen. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Vel'Koz often has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Garen. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Garen
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Garen?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vel'Koz usually wins when taking on Garen, with a 53.2% win rate. Thus, Vel'Koz makes a great counter for Garen.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher winrate than Garen, when facing one another, Vel'Koz also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Vel'Koz into Garenas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Vel'Koz has some amount of CC and other utility, 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 one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Garen matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Vel'Koz is a great counter to Garen. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vel'Koz against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Vel'Koz to counter Garen during both the lane 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 suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz on average racks up less CS as Garen. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Vel'Koz versus Garen build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Vel'Koz used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Garen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average winrate of 53.2% battling Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating Garen as Vel'Koz, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Vel'Koz vs Garen LoL games, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.2% winrate overall.
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