Garen picked in LPL
...And does nothing. Even the casters were clowning on the Garen pick, calling him "Mundo without a slow" and "bad Renekton."
Poor Garen. Even Urgot and Poppy are more competitively viable than him.
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...And does nothing. Even the casters were clowning on the Garen pick, calling him "Mundo without a slow" and "bad Renekton."
Poor Garen. Even Urgot and Poppy are more competitively viable than him.
Its a shame Really. Even if he gets tanky he is unable to provide decent cc Like Sion or Quick damage while being tanky. Hes just irrelevant. His ult should be a AOE skill shot for bundle targets for the long ass cooldown it is on. Right now his ult feels like an Inferior Darius ult, when they removed Garens DFG his ult turned to crap (joke). For some reason all these tanks have these HP ratio/etc boost to damage or shields for being tanky but yet he doesn't. He jumps in fight gets focused (for some dumb ass reason), Leaves the fight, Passive heal his health then comes back in to deal damage somehow because he has damage(which he doesn't).
Thats because scrub Garens actually think building full tank on him is a good idea.
lmao
Can I haz the link plz? :p
Oh no... the champion that takes litterally 0 skill isnt good.
his own fault, he built him like a moron.
garen is nothing but damage and tankyness. if you dont build damage on him, whats left is nothing but tankyness. which is basically nothing at all. go back and watch the replay. he got the drop on koggles a bunch of time. if at leats 1 of his items would have been a big damage item he would have been fine.
an i.e. would have absolutely wrecked the kog maw. you get a crit on your q, and ignite + ult does the rest. you probably dont even need the spin.
here is my preferred build.
(or 
and rarely 
if the enemy team only has slows)
this is core. no questions asked. he synergizes with everything the item has to offer. including the fact that his spin ticks 2 times per second and applys stacks accordingly.
again. his kit synergizes with everything this item has to offer. including the active. q, spin. ghostblade active into q + spin. garens kit is limited. so if you dont have enough utility BUILD SOME
synergizes with his passive, grants cdr, synergizes with his w passive. what more do you want? dont fall for 
. your passive regenerates a ton anyways. and you want resistances in combination with health. his courage passive makes these items cost effective.
sticking power is the name of the game. you want that active to chase people down and keep them in spin range. dont fall for 
. its shit. and i mean that. stacking 5 sunfires was an old troll build, when the passive still stacked, that turned into a meme. that doesnt mean the item is actually good on him in season 5. again. you dont have much in your kit, so you want to build into utility. and even though its a bit steeper, randuins has so much more to offer than sunfire.
garens kit scales with critical strike chance. his q and his spin can crit. this is a natural choice. rush it when you snowball hard. or switch it for 
against ap heavy teams (its actually just a good item for him in general). or for a 
against armor heavy teams.
other possible choices include
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against ad heavy teams or melee carries in your lane. you rush this item, and you win lane against any auto attack reliant champion. thats it. really. this one item will literally win you lane against 
or other ad, auto attack reliant champions. -
is a very viable choice, in case your team is suffering from heavy aoe magic damage. -
instead of against very squishy teams. the burst from the shiv proc on your q can deal quite some damage. -
against cc heavy teams instead of or . i find myself rarely ever buying this due to its costs. but its a valid choice. -
in place of for those 4/5 ad enemy teams in combination with and . really, its for those 1 out of a 100 games, where the enemy team purely consists of ad champs, or 4 ad and 1 tank support.
i hope that helped. now go forth, and spin to win.