Volibear vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Volibear
based on 3,016 Volibear vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Volibear vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Volibear vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Volibear
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.
Volibear vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Volibear in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some significant Volibear versus Garen counter stats that can help you figure out the distinctions between the two. As an example, Volibear’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Volibear may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Garen..
Volibear usually has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Garen. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Volibear and Garen
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Who is Better, Volibear or Garen?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Volibear usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Garen, with a 49.6% win rate. Thus, Volibear makes an ok counter to Garen.
While Volibear does have a lower win rate compared to Garen, when on opposite teams, Volibear also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Volibear into Garen.
Furthermore, Volibear has some amount of utility and CC, 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 one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Volibear vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Volibear is a somewhat poor counter to Garen. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Volibear against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Volibear in order to counter Garen during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Volibear often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Garen. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Volibear versus Garen build consist of Nashor's Tooth, Hullbreaker, and Riftmaker. When Volibear incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Garen than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Volibear had an average winrate of 49.6% battling Garen with this counter build.
To have the best probability of crushing Garen as Volibear, Volibear players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Volibear vs Garen fights, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.6% winrate overall.
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