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Garen and champions alike...

GOL Undecayed·4/6/2016, 2:04:59 PM·3 votes·497 views

I'm fed up with this guy honestly and similar champions that don't seem to fall off no matter what you do these mainly revolve around the tanky champions. I destroyed a Garen in lane to the point where he was 0 10 at one point in the game, not to mention that this guy wasn't even good at the game, he built tanky and fulfilled that aspect fine, however when I get turret dived and one shot by an 0 and 10 Garen is where I lose my shit, this guy has true damage built into his kit with his auto attacks againts the "villain" along with an execute, THAT also does true damage a silence and despite his lack of mobility he always seems to get away on the lowest amount of health, provided he doesn't one shot you first after building and I quote "full tank". This guy is a broken and honestly It's near impossible to shut him down if he isn't absolutely brain-dead and took {{summoner:2}} & summoner 13 for summoners.

The tank meta is annoying to say the least mainly due to the fact that they build so defensively absorbing huge amounts of damage and dealing tons, by the way if you haven't noticed this shouldn't be the case. If you build tank or your character i.e. Garen is a tank, dealing tons of damage shouldn't be your strong point but rather providing utility and defence for teamfights. Which also brings me onto his passive which is literally a item 3083. Either this thing needs to be nerfed heavily or removed because not only is it tremendously beneficial for Garen players but it literally turns them into walking one-shotting health pots and it is honestly ridiculous. I hope something gets done with this guy asap because I and I'm sure a lot of players are fed up with Garen's crap.

By the way they won the game after getting carried by this awful invincible Garen to which he said "Ez" to which I couldn't even argue due to the fact that picking Garen sets you up for an Ez game 99.9% of the time because he's an easy character to dominate with. #NerfGaren #Pray4Me

2 Comments

Hethalean4/6/2016, 2:14:51 PM4 votes

Garen is a juggernaut which is different than a tank. Tanks have CC. Garen does not have any hard CC. A juggernaut (Garen/Mordekaiser/Darius/Skarner) is supposed to be tanky and deal tons of damage if they get into the thick of the fight.

He's meant to do tons of damage if he gets up close. His weakness is that he has no real way to reliably get up close. You just have to play around his strengths (up close damage and facing his villain) and abuse his weaknesses (being kited). In general, he does not do as much damage against non-villain targets as he did before his rework. Just like it's recommended not to 1v1 a fed Riven or commit heavily to early trades vs a Riven (she usually wins those). Don't chase Singed, and don't let Nasus farm Q all game.

Hope this helps.

ComeOnAndSlamJam4/6/2016, 2:33:20 PM1 votes

Garen can't 1 shot anyone, especially building full tank.

He might be able to kill a squishy villain with one spell rotation, but that required getting a melee character with no real mobility on top of his target.