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Thank you for your feedback, but it seems you haven't tried the build out Lorentz, not with the proper runes, you actually deal a lot of damage late game, and maxing E makes your mid game start falling, with balanced lvling of Q and E you can get decent damage all over the game, i had a lot of success running this build, and it worked especially well with Darius,Lee Sin or Maokai in my jungle, i will add this on the guide later, tanky junglers with sort of cc works really well with this guy, i ask you, if you don't have AD per lvl runes, instead Arpen ones, try to change Last whisper for an Infinity edge, the results will be pretty much the same, and you will still feel a good damage output through all the stages of game, just try it :)
Yes, you it actually works. As he said, garen doesn't have much CC therefore exhaust would help. One thing though, atma's impaler would be a great addition to tank garen
Now, I wouldn't at all say boots of swiftness are the worst, but there are certainly better choices, considering all the substitutes for there are. Nice build, but there are a few adjustments.
Now, Garen isn't the best option for a tank simply because he as no CC, and if you build him as a tank he needs his ult to deal any damage. Judgement should be an ability that people fear, which for the most of solo tops, it's a hassle. An off-tank Garen would work, simply because you have more damage, and you'll give them a reason to focus you.
Tank garen actually works btw
Can you stay out of my games please?
If you think someone with no peel, very very limited CC and no engage at all can tank, you're just an idiot, garen has absolutely no tank qualities and two physical scaling damage abilities with extremely good ratios.
Ehm... no.
lets start with the obvious, swiftness cost 650 gold to upgrade from boots 1, ninja tabi cost 500 and give 10% damage reduction, take the armour out of their recipe and thats 200 gold for 1 tier of movement speed and 10% physical reduction.
You spend 650 gold for two tiers of movement speed instead of that? and on a champion who is naturally very fast? sorry you're wrong.
Next is tank garen.
Now garen has pretty ok base, but its base physical so it scales badly against armour since armour always goes up per level and its generally cheap.
So buying damage is imperetive to keep yourself relevant, you also have only one utility spell, a short silence and a tonne of natural resistance.
I'd say one or two defensive items is pretty much a given, but to be mostly defensive, that's an open invitation to be a useless sack of meat come late game.
oh and garen is a tanky DPS, not a tank or an offtank, he has no hard CC, no peel and no defense to offense scaling, he's a damage dealer primarily.
oh and why max Q over E, E does way more damage and Q is mostly for the silence.