Xayah vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Xayah
based on 2,032 Xayah vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xayah vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Xayah vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Xayah
Tips for Playing as Xayah against Garen
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
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.
Xayah vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Xayah in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some vital Xayah against Garen counter stats that may help you explain the differences between the pair. Xayah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Xayah may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Garen..
Xayah normally has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. On average, she receives less damage than Garen. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Xayah and Garen
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Who is Better, Xayah or Garen?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Xayah usually fairs equally well when taking on Garen, with a 49.6% win rate. Thus, Xayah makes an ok counter to Garen.
While Xayah does have a lower win rate compared to Garen, when they face off with one another, Xayah also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Xayah into Garen.
Moreover, Xayah has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This 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 in League of Legends, in Xayah vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Xayah is a somewhat poor counter to Garen. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Xayah against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xayah 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xayah on average accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Garen. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Xayah versus Garen build include Phantom Dancer, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better against Garen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Xayah had an average win rate of 49.6% battling Garen with this counter build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Garen as Xayah, Xayah players should use the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Xayah vs Garen counters, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.6% win rate overall.
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