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Garen Build Guides, Runes and Items
Garen The Might of Demacia
Find the best Garen build guides for League of Legends S14 Patch 14.11. The MOBAFire community works hard to keep their LoL builds and guides updated, and will help you craft the best Garen build for the S14 meta. Learn more about Garen's abilities, skins, or even ask your own questions to the community!
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Garen for new comers
Garen bot lane
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Best Garen Build
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TOP Garen
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A little help for the fresh Summoners
Tank Garen Update Tomorrow
Garen top god follow all my instruction is good
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Garen Top
Demacibra The Tank Guide To Garen.
way of the garen done right
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Garen King Of Solo Top
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Full Health Regen Garen
the true garen of demancia
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Tanky Garen Jungle
Tanky Garen Jungle
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GAREN TOP
Garen I don't say
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Garen the Health Regen Monster
[5.16] My Heart and Sword Always For Demacia
Garen ARAM TANK - FOCUS: SILENCE AND FINISH
Garen Build & Runes
If you're looking for the best rune build for Garen we've got you covered. Below you can find the best items and runes to build for Garen, as determined by calculations of thousands of Plat+ League of Legends games. If you are already familiar with how to play Garen this is a great resource to quickly get a good rune selection for Patch 14.11. However, if you are a new Garen player we highly recommend reading through some of the guides above to learn why this build is strong on Garen!
* Each section of the build is rated independently of the others
Garen's Runes
51%
Win Rate 49% Pickrate
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- 2
- 3
Second Best
51%
Win Rate 24% Pickrate
Third Best
50%
Win Rate 22% Pickrate
Garen's Summoner Spells
51%
Win Rate 77% Pickrate
- 1
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- 3
Garen's Starters
50%
Win Rate 80% Pickrate
- 1
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- 3
Garen's Core Items
57%
Win Rate 10% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Boots
Garen's Luxury Items
Garen's Ability Order
51%
Win Rate 44% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Perseverance (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
51%
Win Rate 21% Pickrate
Perseverance (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Third Best
48%
Win Rate 4% Pickrate
Perseverance (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
* Each section of the build is rated independently of the others
Garen's Runes
52%
Win Rate 43% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Second Best
52%
Win Rate 26% Pickrate
Third Best
54%
Win Rate 24% Pickrate
Garen's Summoner Spells
54%
Win Rate 72% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Garen's Starters
52%
Win Rate 82% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Garen's Core Items
66%
Win Rate 10% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Boots
Garen's Luxury Items
Garen's Ability Order
55%
Win Rate 38% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Perseverance (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
50%
Win Rate 16% Pickrate
Perseverance (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Third Best
51%
Win Rate 5% Pickrate
Perseverance (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Garen Counters
Learn Garen's counters and discover matchups where they have an advantage! When you're starting a game of League of Legends you should always keep in mind if you'll be at an advantage or disadvantage against your opponent, so you can know whether to bully them or play safe. You can find detailed breakdowns of each matchup on CounterStats, and you can also check out some Garen guides to see how to build and play against other champions you may find yourself up against!
This counter data is for Garen TOP in Plat+ games. The percent shown is the enemy champion's counter rating against Garen. Counter rating is our own statistic that factors in counter kills, overall kills, early lead ratio, comeback ratio, and win percent to give the whole picture of that champion's effectiveness as a counter pick.
Best Against Garen
Worst Against Garen
Garen Skins
Find Garen's skins and when they were last on sale. Never miss a sale for your favorite skin by using our Wish List feature! You can also find all Garen skins and chromas on Garen's skins page.
Our Wish List feature will send you notifications when your skins are on sale!Garen's Abilities
His next attack silences for 1.5 seconds and does 30 / 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 (+0.5 per attack damage) physical damage.
Active: Garen steels his courage for 4 seconds, reducing incoming damage by 30%. He also gains 65 / 85 / 105 / 125 / 145 (+18% per bonus health) shield and 60% tenacity for 0.75 seconds.
Champions hit by 6 strikes lose 25% armor for 6 seconds.
Questions About Garen
Latest Questions
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Best Champion for 1350 IP?
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Why do people build Warmog's Armor on Garen?
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How viable is jungle Garen now that the 5.16 changes are out?
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How can we Buff Garens W?
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Garen and Divine
Hello Mobafire forum! Just a question, does garen's [[judgment]] work with the active crit of [[sword of the divine]]?
VERY basic question about runes from a noobie
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Starting 9 pots + Red Elixir viable on Garen?
So recently, I have been seeing a lot of Riven players (as well as a few Tryndameres and a Lee Sin) who start out with 9 health pots and a red elixir. That start seems to work fairly well for them so I started wondering what other champions would...
