Hi I think the higher you go the more you will see this happen as more players become better at the champions that are good against Garen and know how to play against it more effectively. However, it is really good to hear that you are performing in every game! I hope the guide helped you out and best of luck in your games!

Hi! So in most of my games I never go navori just because while the combat stats are nice, it's a lot more consistent to be building items that offer more durability for less dmg such as Black Cleaver and Sterak's Gage like you mentioned in your comment. The damage% ratio to gold spent doesn't drop by any significant margin and it offers more forgiveness overall whether you want to engage/split/1v1 etc. If you want to build navori still I'd say just commit and go full crit to make total utilization of Navori's additional damage per crit chance and have fun with it! For the most part building navori as a standalone in a traditional bruiser build even with 1-2 crit items in the mix isn't as gold efficient and hard to justify as going other offensive options just because of how Navori works with the crit substat, sorry for the long response but I hope this helps!

Hi! It's because the combat stats you get from mortal reminder are more effective than the armor and hp you get from thornmail. Thornmail relistically is only good against full ad situations and you can never use it's grevious wound to the full potential since Garen doesn't have any cc. Mortal teminder you can make use of all it's stats no matter the circumstances and you can proc the max grevious wounds value. You may think it's better to survive longer as Garen, but Garen's current iteration is honestly closer to a fighter rather than a tank. You won't have to worry about being tankier if you just kill them all!

Hello! Phase rush is actually my current most played rune as well and I think overall its a lot more consistent than conqueror at the moment because of the champions that are meta. However, I would like to give credit where credit is due. The original innovator behind the Phase Rush build is actually the current number 1 Garen NA I am Sunlight! Everyone else took after his playstyle after he popularized it by hitting challenger.

Sorry I will work on it when I find time, I do apologize for the lack of match up notes

I will definitely add it to the match up section once I find the time to do so! In general you want to look for short trades where you make him use his E, which is the invulnerable to a single direction ability, and then look for a all in while its on cooldown. Hope this helps!

Hi! So in general I rush zerkers, Stridebreaker/Hullbreaker (vs AP top laners), Mortal reminder/ Deadmans/ or Stride if I rushed Hull, into whatever situational items that I believe are good to build for the game! Remember that the guide is meant to help you itemize not necessarily be a absolute "you must build these every game" thing!

Hey! So my stance on Triforce still remains the same, its a great item if you have a lead and you want to push that lead through splitpushing as well as providing you with more DPS vs most champions. However in general Stridebreaker will always be more consistent just because it brings more utility as an item while giving you more movement speed on average as compared to triforce, and there are some match ups where stridebreaker is just a better item than triforce (ie, a lot of ranged match ups, Jax, Tryn to name a few). Hope this helps!

hey thanks! I appreciate your feedback, and I'll try to implement your advice.