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Choose Champion Build:
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Standard
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Full Damage (Bush) Garen
Recommended Items
Runes:
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+5 Armor
+15-90 HP (lvls 1-18)
Spells:
Flash
Teleport
Items
Ability Order Standard Ability Levelling
Perseverance (PASSIVE)
Garen Passive Ability
Champion Build Guide
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Pros
Great sustainStrong early game damage
Tankiness
Dueling
No mechanics
Cons
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No outplay potential
Predictable
Perseverance
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Decisive Strike
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Courage
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Judgment
Garen's E is his main damage and waveclear tool. When trading, try to let it only hit the enemy champion because it does 33% increased damage. It also reducing the armour of enemy champions who have been hit by four spins. E
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Demolish
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Bone Plating
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Triumph
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Coup de Grace
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For Flex take Armour or Magic Resist depending on the lane opponent.
For Defensive pick up Health however, if the enemy laner is a poke champion or one with a strong all in (Pantheon, Teemo) take Armour or Magic Resist respectively.
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Mercury's Treads
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Dead Man's Plate
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Spirit's Visage Spirit's Visage lets Garen's P
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I choose Phase Rush
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When hiding in a bush, open up with your Q
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Stormrazor
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Picking up an early Hexdrinker
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Darius
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Go Phase Rush and build Bami's Cinder. This allows your Q
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Gnar
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This is an extremely hard matchup. Depending on how he plays, either go Ninja Tabi's Ninja Tabis if he is autoattacking a lot or Mercury's Trreads
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Pantheon
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Start Cloth Armor
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Teemo
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This isn't actually that hard of a matchup. Play defensive until you get 1200g for a Spectre's Cowl
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If you want more matchups comment in the discussion and if I get enough requests for a particular champion I will add it.
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