hello! these notes are a way for me to write down my knowledge from Garen. I published them incase anyone wanted to look at them, but do note that I have no clue what the **** i'm doing and am still platinum, so don't take anything i say without a grain of salt.

Typically you're conceding early because Garen's early game is awful. Once you hit 6 + get berserker's greaves you start coming online. Level 11 is a huge spike becauseyour ult does much more damage based on how many points you have in it. Level 16 is cool but also doesn't matter much because you're typically overkilling people late game.

Play Garen like a mid game carry. This champion @ 1-4 items with farm is almost impossible to stop in the sidelanes simply because he either has more items than you (his waveclear/jg camp clear is really good) or because he chunks you with a really uninteractive phase rush combo without counterplay. Late game this stops working because he starts to get outscaled.

Take yellow/blue trinket and try to sidelane (blue when vs champions you cannot facecheck eg. Camille, otherwise yellow). Try to dive your enemy laner, get tower damage by ignoring their harass or using your prio to flank an objective teamfight. You want to use your quick rotations, super fast waveclear and infinite sidelane sustain to dominate everyone you meet.

Rank 1: 120 + 20% Max HP
Rank 2: 230.769 + 23% Max HP
Rank 3: 333.333 repeating + 25.9% Max HP

A problem that I see often is that Garen Players tend to play very stock standard, almost like they're in LCS. They'll push waves, take camps, and show up at teamfights. I think this is because Garen is viewed as a learning champion/honest champion, so people don't try and go for plays/picks with him. What I started to realize is that in the mid game, making plays eg: taking sweeper and sitting in a buff bush/shadowing a teammate is really powerful and is underestimated, espcially on a champion with as much burst as Garen.

Ghost is better with high damage builds

Ignite is better with tank builds

This is because these summoners help you round out your builds.

It's important to note though that it's ok to do both for example when I'm playing vs Fiora I'll go full unga bunga crit ignite