Garen used to be diverse now he's just a health stacker

King Odin·Aug 15, 2015·1 votes·259 views

All new items are basically just health and with his new kit he can't be a fighter as effectively :/ I'm kind of upset you're pushing him to build health to such an extent

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Critmaster GarenAug 15, 20152 votes

imo the changes made his builds more diverse than theyre now.

right now with the 20% resistance bonus, you have at least 2 of your item slots locked up for big resistance items, to really get anything worthwile out of the passive.

going back to the stack mechanic, the flat resistance bonus allows him to build either raw health, or raw damage without losing out on bonus resistances. on the other hand, if you build him like you used to, it will probably not make a difference (unless you consider nieche cases where you really went heavy into either armor or mr while neglecting the other one).

his current builds will work just the same, but not stacking or rushing tons of resistances will work better than now.