You should try and get yourself Smite + Teleport on Garen. You can start with Ruby Crystal + 5 Health Potions after you have done a jungle camp and the exp advantage helps you to snowball the lane. Also, Stalker's Blade - Cinderhulk deals way more damage than Sunfire Aegis and also increases your overall tankyness even more thanks to the 25% HP, especially with the upcoming Black Cleaver changes. Due to the Phage passive implemented into the new black cleaver even while you spin and the speed boost Stalker's Blade grants you, the mobility issues mentioned earlier are fixed.

Whoever top laner which doesn't use Teleport is just **** currently.

Another thing is, Black Cleaver will give 20% CDR, combine that by replacing Guardian Angel with Spirit Visage (which is the best MR-item for Garen anyway due to his high regeneration) and your Sorcery mastery you will have 35% CDR, means you can switch out your CDR glyphs for magic resist to be even more superior in the laning phase against all those pesky mages top. Of course, you can also optimize your runes depending on the lane enemy with ranked where you use flat runes for the type of damage you face and scaling runes for the type of damage you do not face.

Finally, AD > Armorpen in runes, AD helps you snowball early and at that point you need to snowball. Lategame, you will not deal that much damage anyway, you rather shredd and peel for your carry and take every damage of the enemy carries.

ty man :) and nice guide for garen btw :))

For every point of armor penetration you have, you ignore that much of there armor when dealing AD damage.

hey i want to ask something how armor penetration works?

Summary

Garen is meant to be tanky, and even though you think you need more than 1 offensive item, you already have good damage built in and an ult that can take down 1000+ HP late game. He may fall of late game a bit, and that's why you should go tanky, because your carries should be fed; they'll need another tank to soak in the enemies' attacks

Just a typo found in summary, rep +1 good guide

Watch out for going past Cooldown Reduction limit. Maybe if you're in draft you can change it to make it more viable or show alternatives to prevent wasted Cooldown Reduction.
I can see how it is maybe indirectly said when you say it in runes section with Greater Glyph of Magic Resist, so i suggest emphasizing on this in the runes section and in the recommended rune's note section, and this way nobody will doubt you with your Almighty Demacian Justice!

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Sunfire Aegis is a great item, and it works well with Garen but let us look at some factors why it isn't a core;

• He gets easily kited, so generally Randuin's Omen can be taken over it. This guy took both though.
• Sunfire Aegis is usually taken for its split pushing power, but Garen's Judgment is strong enough by itself.
• The other reason, is because it would include extra AoE magic damage to your kit, examples are:
  1. Renekton's Dominus.
  2. Nasus' Fury of the Sands.
  3. Dr. Mundo's Heart Zapper.
  4. Shyvana's Burnout.
  5. Amumu's Despair.
  Notice how all the skills above deal magical damage, unlike Judgment.

• Sunfire Aegis's early game damage got nerfed now as well.

Hope that explained enough.

Idk i feel like sunfire should be core....right?

[icon=judgment size=40] --->

[[Greater Seal of Armor]] ---> Greater Seal of Armor

^ take my rep. Also, perseverance is pretty OP on garen, you should take it!