Vladimir vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Vladimir
based on 3,482 Vladimir vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vladimir vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Vladimir vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Vladimir
Tips for Playing as Vladimir against Garen
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
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.
Vladimir vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Vladimir in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several important Vladimir vs. Garen matchup stats that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. Vladimir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vladimir may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Garen..
Vladimir usually has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Garen. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vladimir and Garen
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Who is Better, Vladimir or Garen?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vladimir usually wins when taking on Garen, with a 51.9% win rate. As a result, Vladimir makes a good counter for Garen.
While Vladimir does have a higher winrate than Garen, when facing one another, Vladimir also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Vladimir into Garenas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Vladimir has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vladimir vs Garen matchups, Vladimir is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Vladimir is a decent counter to Garen. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Vladimir against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vladimir to counter Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vladimir often picks up a similar amount of CS as Garen. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Vladimir versus Garen build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Cosmic Drive, and Riftmaker. When Vladimir incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better versus Garen than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Vladimir had an average win rate of 51.9% battling Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating Garen as Vladimir, Vladimir players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Vladimir vs Garen fights, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.9% win rate overall.
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