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Garen vs Shen

In the top lane on patch 26.21, Garen is among Shen's worst matchups in LazyElo players' lobbies: at least 8 games in the matchup, a win rate below 50% after it is pulled toward 50%.

Patch 26.21Top718 lane games

Shen wins 44.1% of its 143 top games on patch 26.21 (tier C), and Garen is one of the opponents it does worst against: this is a counter by the site's rule. Garen itself wins 55.7% of 575 games there (tier S+). The games are those of LazyElo players and the players they met, at their own elo, not Emerald and above.

The per-champion pages: Garen counters and Shen counters.

Garen top games
575
Shen top games
143
Min. games per matchup
8
Patch
26.21

Garen vs Shen at a glance

Each champion's own line per lane, and which side the matchup falls on there by the site's counter rule.

Topmeasured

Garen vs Shen in the top lane
ChampionTierWin rateGamesPick rateIn this matchup
GarenS+55.7%5755.2%Beats Shen: Shen has it among its worst matchups
ShenC44.1%1431.3%Loses to Garen: among its worst matchups here

Tiers and win rates are each champion's own top numbers on patch 26.21, from the Top Lane tier list. “Loses to” means at least 8 games in the matchup and a win rate below 50% after it is pulled toward 50%.

Support

Garen vs Shen as a support
ChampionTierWin rateGamesPick rateIn this matchup
GarenToo few games in this lane for a line of its own.
ShenC45.5%880.8%No counter relation with 8 games

Tiers and win rates are each champion's own support numbers on patch 26.21, from the Support tier list. “Loses to” means at least 8 games in the matchup and a win rate below 50% after it is pulled toward 50%.

How Garen plays this matchup

Riot lists Garen as fighter and tank, on no resource, and rates it 7 for attack, 7 for defense, 1 for magic and 5 for difficulty on its own ten-point scale (Data Dragon). Those ratings describe the kit, not the matchup; what the games say is below.

In the top lane on patch 26.21, Garen is tier S+ with a 55.7% win rate over 575 games (5.2% of top picks). Against Shen it does better than that: Shen has Garen among the opponents it loses to most, with at least 8 games in the matchup. The lane is on Garen's side on average; your own record in it decides whether it is on yours.

Garen's other worst top matchups on this patch: Garen vs Yone, Garen vs Tryndamere, Garen vs Yorick. Whether a matchup is a counter follows from six things, range and sustain first: what decides a counter.

How Shen plays this matchup

Riot lists Shen as tank, on energy, and rates it 3 for attack, 9 for defense, 3 for magic and 4 for difficulty on its own ten-point scale (Data Dragon). Those ratings describe the kit, not the matchup; what the games say is below.

In the top lane on patch 26.21, Shen is tier C with a 44.1% win rate over 143 games (1.3% of top picks). Against Garen it does worse than that: Garen is one of the opponents it loses to most, with at least 8 games in the matchup and a win rate below 50% after it is pulled toward 50%. Playing Shen here means playing for the lane you get: give up the early trades its kit does not win, keep the CS and wait for your item spike or your jungler.

Shen's other worst top matchups on this patch: Shen vs Yone. Whether a matchup is a counter follows from six things, range and sustain first: what decides a counter.

What each side builds

The lane builds of both champions in the top lane: the finished items and rune pages seen most often over all their opponents, not against each other alone. The shared games hold no build per matchup.

Garen

Most built items

Games · Win rate

The finished items Garen ends top games with most often.

  • Stridebreaker93.0%56.9%
  • Berserker's Greaves65.2%54.4%
  • Phantom Dancer58.2%56.2%
  • Mortal Reminder38.5%58.9%
  • Dead Man's Plate32.2%61.2%
  • Youmuu's Ghostblade18.3%63.5%

Runes

Games · Win rate

The keystone with its secondary tree, most played first.

  • Conqueror + Sorcery43.5%53.9%
  • Stormraider's Surge + Resolve30.2%57.6%
  • Conqueror + Resolve24.0%54.0%

Builds rest on 569 Garen games in this lane on patch 26.21 whose items were shared; every item and rune page above was in at least 10 of them. Games: the share of those games with it. This is Garen's top build over every opponent, not a build for this matchup.

Shen

Most built items

Games · Win rate

The finished items Shen ends top games with most often.

  • Titanic Hydra71.9%47.0%
  • Plated Steelcaps62.6%44.8%
  • Thornmail38.8%51.9%
  • Dusk and Dawn37.4%48.1%
  • Mercury's Treads28.8%42.5%
  • Heartsteel23.7%45.5%

Runes

Games · Win rate

The keystone with its secondary tree, most played first.

  • Grasp of the Undying + Inspiration55.0%50.0%
  • Grasp of the Undying + Domination31.7%47.4%

Builds rest on 139 Shen games in this lane on patch 26.21 whose items were shared; every item and rune page above was in at least 10 of them. Games: the share of those games with it. This is Shen's top build over every opponent, not a build for this matchup.

Other matchups

Each champion's other measured pairs on this patch, the ones it loses first.

Garen's other matchups

Garen counters, every lane.

Shen's other matchups

Shen counters, every lane.

Your record in Garen vs Shen

  • Your plan, asked first

    Once LazyElo can tell that Garen or Shen is your lane opponent, a card in champ select asks for your plan against them, and only then shows the notes you wrote earlier.

  • Your record in it

    Games, wins and losses, when you last played the matchup and your average KDA in it, plus your CS and gold difference at 10 minutes from the games with a timeline.

  • How others did

    How other players in your stored games did in the same matchup, with the number of games.

Matchups is part of Plus; the free plan shows the best 3 picks from your pool. The feature: your own notes for this matchup.

Questions and answers

Does Garen counter Shen?

Yes, in the top lane on patch 26.21: Shen is among the opponents it loses to most, with at least 8 games in the matchup and a win rate below 50% after it is pulled toward 50%, in the games of LazyElo players at their own elo. Up to three such opponents are listed per champion and lane; Garen is one of Shen's.

Does Shen counter Garen?

Not in our data on patch 26.21: Garen does not have Shen among its worst three matchups in any lane with at least 8 games. That can mean the matchup is close, or that it has too few games here yet; the page says which numbers it rests on.

How many games are behind Garen vs Shen?

5,484 ranked games on patch 26.21 in total; in the top lane Garen has 575 of them and Shen 143. A matchup is only called a counter from 8 games between the two, and the data keeps the lists, not the count per pair.

Where is the win rate of Garen vs Shen?

Not on this page, on purpose. The shared data behind the site holds each champion's own tier, win rate and games per lane and the list of opponents it does worst against, not the win rate of every pair. Showing a number the data does not hold would be a guess, so the page shows which side the matchup falls on and both champions' own lane numbers instead.

Play Garen vs Shen with a plan you wrote yourself

In champ select LazyElo weighs this matchup against your own record on each champion in your pool and says why it suggests a pick. Once it knows your lane opponent it asks for your plan, then shows your notes and your record. You still pick and lock yourself.

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