Well lately my friends have been saying i shouldn't play Garen because he is to easy and OP and so forth... I'm just wondering other peoples opinions because i have all the Garen skins (beside desert trooper) and have him max lvl. I don't wanna quit using him and am wondering what you guys think!?!
Play what you enjoy. Just be aware that popular champions may have a high ban rate in Draft modes and you won't always get to use it.
Heres what you should do
Step 1: Type DEMACIA in caps every single time they tell you not to play Garen
Step 2: Keep using Garen
Optional: Tell them to look up Wraith King whenever they say Garen is easy mode
Play who you want, and have fun with. It's your account, right? If you like using him, continue to do so. And tell your friends to stop trying to be the LoL version of the Geneva Convention. :P
As a garen main and regular player i say keep playing him. Hes a little strong but he can be beat and hes not as easy as he used to be. The thing ppl hate is that with the new tank items like dead mans plate ateraks gage and the new warmogs buffed his tankiness suatainability and damage. Before the rework there werent very many tank items that would boost damage but now we have a few and ppl are seeing it make garen and other tanks stronger. Personally i can beat a garen with nearly any other top meta champ. 2 reasons for that. 1 he gets hard countered by some like teemo ryze darius and fiora. 2 i know garen inside and out and the only intimidating part of his kit is the villain mechanic but since that was taken out of his laning phase unless the jungler stupidly enough give you first blood or dies to you during that time you dont have to worryabout it. Garens not op. His late game is stronger for a reason. Tell me a champ that doesnt dish out a ton of damage late. His early is definitely weaker. I play safe more often than not and ill just bait my enemy into screwing themselves in lane. In low elo its very easy to do this and thats where most of the complaints come from.
All in all keep playing garen hes a great champ theme wise and for us who loved him before he had a late game wecant stop loving him just cus others are now scared. Trust me its more towards their incompetance that they cant win than garens strength.
Bind "R + Enter + /all DEMACIA! + Enter" to a mouse button for more qq on your Ulty.
Optional: Teleport to lane immediately after buying items, Q the enemy tower, and die aa-ing it for early pressure.
I hate "easy" champions because I don't like people going "oh you just won because you're playing an easy champion". I play hard champions so I can go "btw I beat you".
That being said I like garen but have stopped playing him for that reason.
I actually just recently got out of a game where I was Shyvana was was doing very well. Full build was Sated, Swifty boots, Bork, Trinity, Randuins, Bloodthirster. I was the villian, and I thought I would fight the Garen. For reference, this build 2 shots the ADC, and takes about 3 seconds to rip through their jungle gragas. Now you know why I was the villian.
Well, Garen and I are both full health and we begin fighting. I drop him to around 5% health when I fall to around 50% health. Then his ultimate hits. For the remainder of my health. 50% of my health gone, to true damage.
Garen is really strong right now. VERY strong right now. If I had to guess, I would say that some part of him is going to get nerfed before too long (mostly the killing tanky champions from 50% health part). So it becomes a question of whether you like Garen or not. He is certainly more than viable and is very strong at the moment.
