[TRIFORCE GAREN] A Guide on how I reached Master with Garen
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Recommended Items
Runes: Mid/Top vs. Ranged Scaling
+8 Ability Haste
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+10% Tenacity/Slow Resist
Spells:
Flash
Ignite
Items
Threats & Synergies
Darius
One of the Best if not THE BEST Counter for Garen. Careful for his Lv 1 Brush cheese if you walk to lane! Rather go around it past the Krugs. Get Lv 2 before him try to get an early Lead against him before he's Lv 3. Don't trade too much and don't let him get 5 stacks of his Passive. Even with a lead RESPECT his All-in potential if you are in the middle of the lane or further and has ghost he wants to All-in everytime and you are gonna die everytime. So if you are ending up pushing to hard rather lose some CS (Minions) and let him Push him into your Tower. Get Tabi's early. I rly kid you not, you and your team have it much easier killing a 0 3 Darius than a 3 0 One! if you are very behind or have only 1 kill go for Black Cleaver Rush so your team can later burst him down easier.
Yuumi
BEST. SUPPORT. YOU CAN HAVE ON YOUR TEAM WITH GAREN!
Yuumi
BEST. SUPPORT. YOU CAN HAVE ON YOUR TEAM WITH GAREN!
Champion Build Guide
my name is Kartago I am 23, I am from North Germany and playing on the EUW Servers. I started playing League at the end of Season 1 and started playing ranked in S3. I hit Master in Season (S9) and I wanna give some help how to climb with Garen and how to adapt in certain Match-ups.
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I like to start playing and maining Garen in Season 8 where I also hit Diamond 1 with Old Garen. I played Champs like Gangplank and Galio that were much more Complex but Garen was always a Champion I liked, so I thought to myself:
"Why not maining this Guy who just Jumps at people from above, Spins like a Beyblade on them, screams DEMACIA! and strikes foes down with a big *** lighting sword from the sky!"
Furthermore I gonna talk about Top and Mid lane in general, why I chose them and how to play it with some Match-ups rough explained such as against Ranged and Melee's. This Guide isn't nearly finished as I want to have it! So for example if I see comments, where many of you want a specific Match-up explained or some Match-ups more in depth explained for example, I will respond to you! Also keep in mind this Guide IS NOT FINISHED YET, I will keep updating it and edit some Chapters like Gameplay and explain more like Runes, Laning, Matchups and how to build against specific Champs.
Here are my League accounts if you want to Study my builds/runes etc.
https://euw.op.gg/multi/query=s%C3%A1hnuz%C3%A1l%2Ckart%C3%A1go%2Cceoofcull
Only thing left I want to say is that you can also catch me on my Stream https://www.twitch.tv/lol_kartago , where I do mostly commentary with facecam and I surely gonna answer your questions about our Demacian Boi. Other then that, thank you very much for Reading this guide and leave a like and a comment if it helped you!
EDIT: I quit Season 11 because I havent gotten any enjoyment out of the game cuz of multiple reasons, so no League content for now but always appreciate a fellow chatter in my stream! :]
Have a nice day and good luck on the Field of Justice!
atm I feel like Garen is rly situational Top Lane and loses most
match-ups due getting outscaled, so I'm playing mostly Garen mid atm.
Idk what this season brings for me but I try to climb with positivity and give
all I`ve got!!! (maybe check me out on https://www.twitch.tv/lol_kartago)
First off all I don't want you to master Garen first, much more I want you to understand the Game. The Advantage, we Garen Players or Mains have is in fact that we don't have to fancy Combos and all that to Trade, to get a Kill, to engage and so on. We can pretty much relay on our easy combos and focus more on the Map control, on the Roam to help other Lanes and on the Objective-Control.
You never go wrong with Garen Top Lane, it's his Lane where he was born in and always fits. He also has more Matchups that he can do some work and give the Team a good Frontline.
- What Summoner spells do I use?
Always go
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-How do I lane?
Against Melees and Ranged, you pretty much wanna always get Lv 2 before them and get an early Lead over your Opponent. Keep in mind if they have a enemy
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Always look at your Map and track the enemy Jungler down. As a Top laner you are much more vulnerable as in Mid lane. So if you don't see the enemy Jungler step back and lose some CS and just let the enemy Minions push back into you. It's always more worth losing CS than dying only for overextending. If you're Jungler is in your near you can play a bit more aggressive and ask him to Counter gank. To the specific Match-ups scroll down to get some more Information
Against Ranged Top laners you trying just to give them no Kills at all. As long your team is winning there's no need for a miscalculated All-in that ending killing you. So rather try to push the Lane and go for roams! Predator helps you alot wit that.
-What Runes can I take?
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I described them on the Top a bit more in the Notes. But Basically Fighter = Conqueror you want Win early against Champs that gets scary late Game such as
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-What do I go in the 2nd Keystone Key?
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I'm not 100% sure what to go against every specific Champ or Match-ups, because you look more on your Team and the enemy team, rather ONLY your Lane Opponent.
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When do I take Resolve now? Against Melee's with Early short Trades and Poke like
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And when
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Sorcery was used to be the scaling rune for Garen which is sadly now completely gone in Season 10, same with Full Cooldown Garen (sad noises was actually most fun build for me). So now Sorcery is only used for early cheese for movement speed so only take now
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-What do I build? What to get on first Recall and When icon=Stridebreaker size=25 or
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Get for early Recall
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[PATCH 11.2 UPDATE]
So when
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Because of that devastating
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Second Item is ALWAYS
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-When do I Split and when do I group as
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Basically if your team is winning: Group with your team, peel or protect the one who's carrying. Get some items (if you are behind to make it easier for them get rid of threats) For Example
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Splitting is the Opposite: You are super strong but your team is super behind. Now you have to hope that they will communicate with you and not straight up ignoring or flaming you. If though, mute the player(s)! Tell them to play safe, get farm, distract the team and let you do the Job of pressure the Game. Keep also in Mind of the enemy movement. You can maybe 1v2 but you can't 1v3 or 1v4 so always put a ward somewhere where they may come from. Leave when you see more enemies moving towards you! Switch Lanes when you took down Inhibitors or you have to be near Objectives like Dragon or Baron. This is one the hardest Ways to win cuz you really relay on the patients of your team and of the enemy team making mistakes such as bad Objective calls and engages on your team. [Update]
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And if You and your Team is equally ahead you can do a mix of splitting and helping your team by roaming from behind when they about fight a Team fight! Just keep communicating with your Team what you up to and what they up to, to keep Synergy on your Team.
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- What Summoners do I use?
Always take
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-What do I do in the first 10 Minutes?
After the first wave around 3 Minutes Ward at the Area next to The Raptors to have vision on the enemy Jungler. You need because my Strategy is to perma push your Laner in and either helping your Jungler if he's invading or to have even CS with your Laner. Mages like
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-When should I roam Top/Bot or help my Jungler out?
First you have to push your Lane in or having your minions at least in the middle of your Lane. You gotta adapt how your Opponent plays: If he plays Aggressive: Dodge his Abilities or wait for him to use them, then push in. Look at your Health Bar, don't go for a Clear if you are bellow 50% HP! If he plays defensive, get Cull to get an even bigger Advantage in terms of Farming CS. Best back to Base is with 600g to get
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Second for Roaming Bot or Top you need at least your Ultimate
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So the best Scenario for you would be if you pushed your Laner in. If you getting Pushed in and your Jungler wants to invade or needs help, communicate with him that you cant help and ping him away!
-When do I go
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Same like Top lane if you wanna try to win your lane on your Own go
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-What to buy on 1st/2nd
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300g if you started with
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300g if you started with 1x
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with 600g (sell 1 or more
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with 900g (sell 1 or more
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with 1300g (sell 1 or more
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with 2000g (sell 1 or more
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What do I build?
-You can find the Full Builds if you scroll up, with notes in each Build. But in short: ALWAYS get
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Your Playstyle and Mission is something else. You building to One-shot either a squishy target like an ADC or Mid laner for example, who is the threat in your Game and get enough tankiness to get out and let your Team deal with the rest. Thats why
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After
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As your second item you can always go for
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-When do I go Crit and what do I get?
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Always go Crit as your 3rd item if you up against a lot of Champs that build armor so after
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- When do I build Lethality?
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I only go lethality if either snowball and get as 3rd item either
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-When do I go Attack Speed Mid lane?
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I only go
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