Is Garen's High Win rate Misleading???

brownthunder88·8/27/2015, 9:59:47 PM·4 votes·1,196 views

Did Garen's winrate increase because his "skill floor" was lowered while his "skill ceiling" remained the same?

Garen one of the first champions a majority of new players start playing with. He's a very beginner friendly champion and lot's a new players find success with him. There isn't a lot of complexity in his kit, so new players can get used to him and learn how to play League. With the addition of all this true damage from the "Villian" concept, isn't it even easier for newer Garen players to do well?

Was this Riot's goal? or was it unintended byproduct of the patch?

Does this make the champion healthy?

9 Comments

Rito Staff8/27/2015, 10:32:30 PM2 votes

No it's not, don't worry. All 3 Garens I've faced rolled over us. The last one was 11-0

Luxana Crowngard8/27/2015, 10:06:10 PM1 votes

Of course it does. Now he's being picked up by all the newbies and they can learn the game. Before he was rarely played.

redniwediS8/27/2015, 10:08:56 PM1 votes

I think his skill ceiling went up at least a little bit. He's less of a niche pick than he was, though there are still ranked situations where you simply would not want to risk picking him.

I'm not really sure about the skill floor though, partly because I'm a little unclear about it's definition. Wouldn't raising the skill floor make it harder for new players to play him? One of us has it backward.

In either case the key to beating Garen is kiting, which is something many new players have a problem doing. Once a few patches go by I'm expecting to see a healthy win rate on Garen at both low rank and high rank, with a drop in win rate around the middle ranks. Basically at low rank Garen is easy to play, at the middle ranks players figure out kiting, and at the higher ranks Garen players know how to play around kiting.

Right now Garen really punishes people for not kiting, so intended or not he's fantastic at low ranks.

UltraSceptile8/27/2015, 10:39:04 PM1 votes

Garen's skill ceiling is the same level as his skill floor rofl.

Same with annie.

ZACKandATTACK8/27/2015, 11:27:41 PM1 votes

I like this Garen more. His early game isn't as strong but the new addition to R is cool