Garen only has a 48% win rate in Master+; do you know why?

Erijian·8/26/2015, 2:44:48 AM·5 votes·1,137 views

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Because they actually know how to kite, peel, and CC important targets.

Garen will never be viable in the big leagues BECAUSE of how weak he is to any form of hard-CC, while also being outclassed by other top laners such as Irelia in the jobs they are meant to do. Garen will be continually nerfed due to the complaints of people who don't know how to play against him; permanently keeping him from ever having a chance of success in the big leagues since his weaknesses will become more and more apparent, and easy to exploit in an attempt to cater to the lower-ranked players. Gj, G&B.

EDIT: His winrates for today:

Bronze-55% Silver-57% Gold-56% Plat-54% Diamond-52% Master-31%

12 Comments

LoLKiru8/26/2015, 2:49:33 AM7 votes

OP.GG lists his winrate (over the last 7 days that is) as 53.92 in masters.

Also worth noting, regardless Masters is often VERY unreliable in terms of winrates given that, theres an absurdly low number of games (I mean hell, Pantheon has a 100% winrate because theres only 5 games with him).

ITT: Implying diamond players don't know how to do all of those things as well (at least, I'd hope they do since its only 2 steps below pro-level)

Durzaka8/26/2015, 3:03:30 AM2 votes

Champion.gg lists him at 55% win rate in plat+.

So yeah.

IAMS4T4N8/26/2015, 2:51:10 AM1 votes

thats gr8 and how many people are in master

Gusicles8/26/2015, 2:58:06 AM1 votes

I disagree. They just don't believe enough.

(Actually, if they just buffed instead of nerfed his movement speed bonus on Q and his base speed, removed the slow on E, and just gave him better itemization options, he would be more than viable)

Lugg8/26/2015, 3:01:52 AM1 votes

If you are going to use your hard CC on Garen and not on the AP carry or AD carry, good luck winning that teamfight.

brownthunder888/26/2015, 3:16:22 AM1 votes

Garen needs a rework badly. He's passive just has no interaction. The cooldown late game is nice, but being out of battle for even a few seconds makes your team vulnerable. So Garen ends up staying in battle with a useless passive. The whole Villian aspect just allows garen to 100-to-0 quick enough before he dies.

The current garen will get nerfed to the ground and end up in the exact same spot it was before the patch. The only way to change that is to rework him. The things that needs to change, is that passive.