I used to think that Garen's W is completely trashed, but I did the maths and...

LoL aint life··3 votes·384 views

By farming, you're getting a bonus of Armor and Magic Resist that normally would have made you buy 150 Armor and Magic Resist to get that bonus from the old W passive.

Plus, with the new 10% Bonus Armor and Magic Resist mastery, you can get half of your old W passive PLUS the bonus you get from farming creeps and killing champions.

That is actually huge.

Basically, you can get one Armor and MR item, then proceed to buy Damage and Health with the new items, and you'll still be as tanky as before whilt dealing twice as much damage.

Garen was significantly buffed this patch.

Like here's an example of what Garen's build will be this patch:

item 3742 item 3512 item 3071 Titanic Hydra Sterak's Cage item 1321 item 2138

Tons of Resistances, Health, AD and movement speed. Plus, you have the tenacity and slow resistance, so you're still very good against CC.

You can replace the item 3512 for a item 3065 oritem 3102 if you don't plan on splitpushing.

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Sire Hippington1 votes

Plus, with the new 10% Bonus Armor and Magic Resist mastery, you can get half of your old W passive PLUS the bonus you get from farming creeps and killing champions

that sounds like garren couldn't use def masteried befor...

anyway, the big deal with W isn't the shift from % to flat resistances, but that it no longer gives tenacity, which for an imobile champ is a big diffrence

LoL aint life1 votes

You still have the Tenacity Mastery, item 3111 item 2138 and since they stack multiplicatively (I think), your W didn't grant that much Tenacity anyway.

Sire Hippington2 votes

30% free tenacity is quite much, especially as it stacks with masteries and boots, reaching a total of ~60% tenacity(merc scale multiplicative), which is a massive difference if you try to break through the enemie frontline.

And it grantet the option to say 40% from W+masteries is enough, i can choose other boots i might need more, like item 3009 for more ms and slowresistance, oritem 3047 to get more tanky vs AAs.

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