Ziggs vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Ziggs
based on 2,033 Ziggs vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ziggs vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Ziggs vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Ziggs against Garen
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
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.
Ziggs vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Ziggs in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some significant Ziggs against Garen counter stats that may help you realize the distinctions between the pair. Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Garen..
Ziggs typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Garen. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ziggs and Garen
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Who is Better, Ziggs or Garen?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ziggs usually loses when facing off against Garen, with a 47.2% win rate. Therefore, Ziggs makes a poor counter for Garen.
While Ziggs does have a lower win rate than Garen, when on opposite teams, Ziggs also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Ziggs into Garen.
Additionally, Ziggs has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Ziggs vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Ziggs is a garbage counter to Garen. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ziggs against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Ziggs in order to counter Garen during both the early game 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 suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs typically accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Garen. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Ziggs versus Garen build include Seraph's Embrace, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Garen than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Ziggs boasted an average win rate of 47.2% when playing against Garen with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Garen as Ziggs, Ziggs players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Ziggs vs Garen matchups, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.2% win rate overall.
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