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Garen vs Kassadin

Garen
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Kassadin
Analyze a draft with Garen
Heavy AP damageHigh burstDive threatSplit push

Build vs Kassadin

Build adapted to this matchup

Recommended items for Garen: Stridebreaker, Phantom Dancer, Mortal Reminder, Berserker's Greaves, Youmuu's Ghostblade, Force of Nature, Dead Man's Plate, Infinity Edge.

Starting items

Doran's Shield
Health Potion

Core build

Stridebreaker
1
Phantom Dancer
2
Mortal Reminder
3

Standard

Berserker's Greaves
4AS
Youmuu's Ghostblade
5

Summoner spells

FlashDot92%
FlashTeleport6%

Anti CC

Mercury's Treads
4vs CC

Other options

Youmuu's Ghostblade
Force of Nature
Dead Man's Plate
Infinity Edge
Randuin's Omen
Lord Dominik's Regards
Sterak's Gage
72.7% WR11 games
PrecisionPrecision
ConquerorConqueror
TriumphTriumph
Legend: HasteLegend: Haste
Last StandLast Stand
SorcerySorcery
Axiom ArcanistAxiom Arcanist
CelerityCelerity
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceHealth Scaling

Power Spikes

Strength by game phase

Kassadin's abilities

Passive, spells and ultimate

Void Stone (P)

Kassadin takes reduced magic damage and ignores unit collision.

Cooldowns

Cooldowns by spell rank

LevelQWER
39s7s21s–
68s7s21s5s
97s7s21s5s
117s7s21s3.5s
167s7s19s2s
187s7s17s2s

Playing as Garen

Tips to maximize your impact

  1. Silence, spin, back off

    Trade with Decisive Strike (Q), then Judgment (E), and back off: the Decisive Strike silence stops your opponent from answering with spells.

  2. Stay closest to your opponent

    During Judgment (E), stay closer to your opponent than to their minions: the nearest enemy takes extra damage.

  3. Back off to regenerate

    After a trade, back off until Perseverance (passive) kicks in: without recent damage taken, you regenerate part of your health every second.

  4. Courage just before impact

    Activate Courage (W) just before the bulk of the damage: you first gain a shield and tenacity, then a longer damage reduction.

  5. Save your R to finish

    Save Demacian Justice (R) to finish: its true damage grows with the target's missing health.

Playing against Kassadin

How to counter and exploit weaknesses

  1. Trade before he hits 6

    Take as many trades as you can before he hits level 6: without Riftwalk (R), he has no way to move quickly, to engage or to escape.

  2. Lean on physical damage

    If you deal physical damage, lean on it in trades: Void Stone (passive) and Null Sphere (Q) only reduce magic damage.

  3. Drag it out when he chains R

    When he recasts Riftwalk (R) back to back, back off and drag the teamfight out: each quick recast doubles its mana cost, and once he's out of mana he can't blink anymore.

  4. End the game early

    Look to end the game early: at max rank, Riftwalk (R) only has a 2-second cooldown, and he blinks almost nonstop.

Other Garen matchups

Patch 16.21.1