Yasuo vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Yasuo
based on 9,936 Yasuo vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yasuo vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Yasuo vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Yasuo
Tips for Playing as Yasuo against Garen
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
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.
Yasuo vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Yasuo in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some critical Yasuo against Garen matchup statistics that can help you figure out the distinctions between the two. Yasuo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Yasuo may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Garen..
Yasuo typically has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. On average, he receives less damage than Garen. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Yasuo and Garen
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Who is Better, Yasuo or Garen?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Yasuo usually wins when taking on Garen, with a 51.9% win rate. Thus, Yasuo makes a good counter for Garen.
While Yasuo does have a higher winrate than Garen, when they face off with one another, Yasuo also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Yasuo into Garenas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Yasuo also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Yasuo vs Garen matchups, Yasuo is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Yasuo is a decent counter for Garen. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Yasuo against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Yasuo in order to counter Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yasuo typically racks up a similar amount of CS as Garen. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, 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, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Yasuo versus Garen build consist of Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Yasuo incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better against Garen than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Yasuo had an average winrate of 51.9% when countering Garen with this build.
To have the best chance of beating Garen as Yasuo, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Unflinching, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Yasuo vs Garen fights, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.9% win rate overall.
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