Introduction x Who are you? x Why Garen? x How to play Garen x Items

I'm itawarrior, known as ilcalmissimo on EUW. I'm a gold 3 scrub (S10) who REALLY enjoys playing garen. I have 110k+ mastery on garen and he's helped me climb through the ladder. In this guide I'll teach you how to play garen in Season 11!

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In all seriousness though, Garen's a simple, relaxing and still quite powerful champion to play especially in normals and lower ranks. Because he is simple you can focus on improving your macros such as roaming, wave management and situational buying.

Alright, alright! You really want to learn how to play Garen uh? Let's get right into it!

Garen's kit is simple:

(Q) Decisive Strike gives you a slight movement speed boost and empowers you next attack: it will deal more damage and silence the target for a short duration. Leveling up your Q increases the damage of the attack and the movement speed duration.

(W) Courage has two components: a passive armor/mr increase that becomes stronger the more minions you kill and an active ability that gives you damage reduction for a couple of seconds and a shield + tenacity for less than a second.

(E) Judgment is garen's signature move: he lifts his sword and start spinning dealing damage to all enemies around him. After 6 hits of this ability the enemy's armor will be reduced.

(R) Demacian Justice is a point-and-click execute that deals true damage to your opponent. The damage is increased by the enemy's missing health.


Your trades and all ins are basically the same: when close to your opponent close the distance with Decisive Strike, silence them and use Judgment to start dealing damage to your opponent while remaining close to him. When the target is at ~18% / ~22% / ~25% OF THEIR MAX HP (Depending on your R level) use Demacian Justice to finish them off.