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Spells:

Ignite

Flash

Ability Order

Garen Passive Ability

Introduction

This is an optimized build, not a full guide, to Garen. Please note that stats summary is very inaccurate. You should get:

HP - 4343 !
HP/5 - 64.3
Demage - 260
Arp - 40.94 (+10%)
MS - 439 !
CDR - 39.9 !!!

Pros / Cons

+ Maximized utility and mobility for this champion
+ Strong survivability and sustainability in vs1/vs2 fights
+ Insanely strong support from LVL13, due to very high speed
+ No weak stage of the game

- If denied early farm, can have hard time untill getting few essential items
- Vunerable to heavy CC setups
- You get focused instantly in team fights

Skill Sequence

DS as first skill enables you to poke and stay ahead in lane and break slows.
Max out judgement first, then DS, so when you finish your ghostblade you can have 94% uptime on it due to capped CDR... imba.

Masteries

I go in for swiftness rather than initiator, because it helps you as a defensive tool aswell, saving your *** many times during the game and health bonuses from the defensive tree are really insignificant, so it's not worth it to sacrfice additional points, which you can use for good masteries like +Arp or +AD/lvl.

Runes

Arp is always good, nothing to explain here.
0.5% Max HP seals give the most HP possible with frozen mallet and warmongs.
CDR glyphs get you just below the CDR cap (39,9) so you can get the most out of your cool downs, which are the only thing that limits Garen.
MS quints because you can always use more MS.

Summoner Spells

Ignite and flash, both with masteries. You can swap ignite for exhaust if you're having troubles before getting the frozen mullet, and flash for ghost if you're not intending to get the mullet at all, but i don't recommend it.

Items

Boots, Ghostblade, Mallet and Warmongs you should always get. Then you have choice of either going for more demage:

Phantom blade + IE
(if you face relly HEAVY armored team, you can exchange one of those for last whisper)

or, you can go the defensive way:

Force of nature + GA.

Either one is fine.

Summary

I hesitated with posting this, but i guess sooner or later people are gonna find out and Garen is going to be nerfed back, so have fun while you can ;)