Zilean vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Zilean
based on 1,495 Zilean vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zilean vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Zilean vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Zilean
Tips for Playing as Zilean against Garen
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby 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.
Zilean vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Zilean in LoL
The stats provided here feature some strategic Zilean vs. Garen counter statistics that may help us appreciate the differences between this set of champs. Zilean’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Zilean may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Garen. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Zilean usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Garen. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zilean and Garen
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Who is Better, Zilean or Garen?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zilean usually wins when facing off against Garen, with a 52.0% win rate. As a result, Zilean makes a good counter for Garen.
While Zilean does have a higher winrate than Garen, when facing one another, Zilean also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zilean into Garen.
Moreover, Zilean has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zilean vs Garen matchups, Zilean is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Zilean is a decent counter to Garen. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zilean against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Zilean to counter Garen during both the early game 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 mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zilean most often racks up a lot less CS relative to Garen. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Zilean versus Garen build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Morellonomicon, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Garen than with most other common builds. In fact, Zilean had an average winrate of 52.0% when countering Garen with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Garen as Zilean, Zilean players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Zilean vs Garen battles, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.0% winrate overall.
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