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Runes:
Precision
Resolve
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+65 Base Health
Spells:
1
2
Higher Utility
Flash
Teleport
Items
Ability Order
Perseverance (PASSIVE)
Garen Passive Ability
Champion Build Guide
Why Play Garen?
In the current meta, it is a running joke that top lane does not impact the game very much. Oftentimes that can be true, unless your top laner is snowballing and taking over the game, many top laners do not bring a lot to teamfights. Many top laners spend much of the mid game split pushing, which don't get me wrong is a viable strategy, but that hinders your ability to impact team fights.
Garen on the other hand will bring an immense amount of utility to team fights. Consider several areas that he excels in.
If you are looking for a Jungle version of this guide, I just released it here at the link below!
Garen Jungle Guide
Silencing Key Targets
Garen is one of the few champions that have a silence built into their kit. Decisive Strike in addition to massive damage and a burst of speed, applies a 1.5 second silence to the enemy. In the current meta of assassin comps, where champions like Talon and Zed rule the mid lane, one and a half seconds of silence can spell their deaths. It isn't only good against Assassins though, as many Mages will be useless if silenced and can resort to slow and weak auto attacks, allowing your team to quickly kill them.
Beginner Friendly Design
Garen is unable to miss a skill shot. Many champions have to aim their abilities and hope the enemy moves in a predictable manner, but not Garen, he simply clicks on an enemy and attacks. All of his abilities are unable to be dodged if Garen can get in range. If you start your Demacian Justice ability animation and the enemy flashes away, it will follow them and if they are low enough, kill them.
Explosive Single Target Damage
With the removal of the Villian Passive his Demacian Justice now ALWAYS does true damage, meaning that it is not mitigated by armor or magic resist items. If a more squishy target is around 1/3rd HP, in general Garen can run up and use his Q and R abilities to kill them.
Sustain
New players often over-trade in lane and overstay, making them vulnerable to ganks from the enemy jungler or getting easily killed by the enemy. Garen's passive Perseverance helps to make you not as easy of a target due to your incredible health regeneration, and it could also make it easy for you to turn the tables on them after waiting 30 or 40 seconds for some health regen. If the enemy over stays, you will quickly have the health advantage.
Too Much Fun
See video below for some intense Garen Jungle Gameplay from the day of the patch release!
Content Structure
1. Runes The Might of Demacia |
2. Pros and Cons Champion strengths & weaknesses |
3. Gameplay Gameplay and Tips and Tricks |
Runes
But in most situations Conqueror will be your go to Keystone for Garen when you want to play aggressively. |
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Pros and Cons
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+ Safe first pick + Fits well into many comps + Built in sustain + Can safely split push + Can often 1v1 anyone if piloted correctly + Naturally gets stronger (scales) as the game goes on Garen is such a great beginner champ due to his straightforwardness. This is not to say he isn't impactful though. Who can deny that a champ who can run through an enemy team and kill their ADC in 2 shots isn't impactful? He can cancel his auto attack animation with his Q, allowing him to farm effectively and secure cannon minions, and without Mana, that is one less resource to manage in a game. |
- Can be counterpicked (looking at you Vayne) - High skill players can take advantage of Garen - Weak Gap Closer - No crowd control aside from silence - Easily kited Unfortunately, Garen naturally loses a lot of matchups and much patience is required to play him in those bad matchups. Work on good CS (minion kills) and build to properly counter the enemy team, and late game you will shine! Dealing with ranged champions such as Vayne and Teemo can be difficult, but if you can get a lead, they are quite squishy champions and can be swiftly dealt with by a gank from your jungler. |
Gameplay
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Summary
Thank you for taking the time to read my guide, I am just beginning my journey of guide writing! All of the guides have been for League of Legends. I enjoy articulating what I have learned through mistakes and experiments and research. I hope that even Garen veterans can appreciate this guide and hopefully there were little gems of information that everyone came away with from it. Garen hasn't changed much over the last year but changes are coming and I will update the guide when that hapens! Please check out the notes for the item builds and runes as there is more information tucked away in there. I hope that if there are corrections that I need to make, that people kindly let me know in the comments, and I would be happy to make adjustments!!
Over time I hope to add more to the guide to keep it relevant. Eventually I would like to add more matchup specific information, as well as a full breakdown of different runes. I know I change my secondary runes often based on matchup!
Also, I am not the most artistic person in the world, so if there is anything I can change with the formatting of the guide, please let me know! I would love to make adjustments to make the guide easier to ready. And lemme beat you trolls to the punch, "It would make it easier to read if you just deleted the guide, har har, Kappa", well too bad for you, I don't care about deleting it, just care about improving it!
Please consider stopping by my YouTube channel, more guides will be added on there over time, and you might learn something new!
So once again, thank you so much, if you gleaned anything from the guide, please like the guide and if you have any questions or feedback, feel free to drop a comment!
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