Again. I will explain my point in this guide. The reason why Garen has gold runes, item and masteries is that:

1. At solo top. Yeah Garen dominates most of the time, but champion like him can also be dominated by other champions. They have their strengths and weaknesses. So you should pay attention to that. Philosopher's Stone Philosopher's Stone can help bost Garen's passive to sustain his lane and get an advantage of 1 gold per second if combined with runes and masteries.

2. Is Philosopher's Stone Philosopher's Stone inefficient and wasted if Garen bought this? Obviously not. Why? because at the very start, of the game and when the Gold started to tick, it already helped Garen in earning his money. So is it wasted? Mana Regen is wasted yeah and I won't argue about that but Health regen and 5Gp10 is not wasted on him plus. you bought it Philosopher's Stone with the help from passively earning money from the start.

3. I made this guide for those people who are having a hard time farming because either they are outmatched and is being harassed by that champion or you're laning against 2 champs because sometimes you'll encounter teams who doesn't have a dedicated jungler.

4. For those who want to use Garen to support your ADR at bottom lane, this guide is also very viable. You don't need to last hit minions and just let your ADR farm them.

5. Yeah, RUNES Garen is strong early game, so the difference between + 8 AD to that of +15 AD is big, but not that big. + 8 AD is manageable.

6. MASTERIES can add a big difference. Either you gave 21 on offense or defense yeah. It is really helpful. But what if the above situations (1&2) are met? This build comes in. Increasing the money you can gain per sec + can be an advantage against your enemy till late game. You won't get under farmed like what happened with TSM Dyrus's Darius when doing solo top against IG's Jayce. Dyrus is one of the best players and we can't deny that but look what happened? In addition to that, I also placed points on masteries which are useful and helpful early game like armor pen, damage/level, CDR, defense +5, health per level, veteran scar and so on..

7. Sometimes, I also am an unorthodox player. So you will see me creating some guides like this which is very far from what you or others get used to. And it is my own IDEA and if you don't want to use this, you can use other Garen guides. I'm not forcing you to use this but I'm telling to try this out.

8. It is tanky while having a high damage output.

Actually, the original ELO was based on CHESS which is meant and only meant for 1 vs 1 which was created by Arpad Elo to distinguish skills in CHESS.

So it doesn't mean that if my ELO is around 1400, that I'm not suitable in writing a guide. And I also am working which is my priority that's why my ELO aren't updating like before as necessary. So like what I've told you get a life lol. And btw, I'm not the one who said you're not able o write down a guide. I believe it is -NA- Veng Lmfao who said that which I just agreed on. lol. And as you may have notice, I also am an unorthodox guide maker so if none of you didn't notice that, it means you're not using your ****py minds. lol

The same I did with my Kat build, just update it for myself, that's why there is no text and keep it published for it people have guidance on the masteries and items, but apparently people only care if there is a big bs story about how to lane, how to counter people and if there are images and nice colourly texts. And yes I'm level 29 now, does it matter? You're 1400 ELO which does not make you suitable on writing a guide either.

It's alright. I just made this for my friends to view and see this. Nothing in particular. Wait.. What the?? Is this true? you're level 28? Seriously? lol..

Masteries, runes and items just look ****. Gold runes? Phil stone on Garen, what? I won't even take a look at the rest of your guide since there are no words to talk this right. -1

Nah. I don't need it. Let his team's pure tank have it. lol

No warmrog Armor on garen is like no blodthirster on adc

Beats me.. Well, why don't you try to find out. Maybe trace it.. lol

Hmmm I wonder where all the new accs with 0 posts came from...
and to me I tried it... I had to sell those items or I would've lost.
I like using my natural way of Garen a lot better than getting GP10s.

i like this build, good for harassing opponents. full package that is. tons of damage hp armor and mr

The masteries don't work and asking friends to like your build is basically cheating.