Suggestions for How to play Garen?

AriosHeartshield·Jul 18, 2018·1 votes·4,237 views

Hey guys, new player here. Hoping I can get some tips on how to play Garen. He seems like a cool character. I want to play an armored warrior. Still want to do damage while being somewhat tanky.

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redniwediSJul 18, 20182 votes

Alright, some quick tips.

Your passive heals for jack shit before level 11. Make sure you buy some potions. Your W gives a large tenacity and damage reduction boost for the first 0.75 seconds it's active. Time this to block CC or high burst abilities. Your E can be turned off, immediately refunding some of the cooldown and giving you access to it again sooner. Your E allows you to pass through units. If you're running you can use it to ignore minions that are in your way.

Tips can help, but experience is what really matters. Play some games, see what works and doesn't work, and get some questions together if you can't figure something out. I recommend going to the Garen Mains subreddit for specific stuff.

AriosHeartshieldJul 18, 20181 votes

Should I be using my E to last hit?

redniwediSJul 18, 20181 votes

Generally no, at least not early, but E can be activated for an immediate damage tick right after an auto, so it can be useful when farming under tower. Just be careful not to let additional damage ticks ruin your under tower farming.

You normally want to freeze the wave, but if you're hard pushing for some reason feel free to spin on the minions.

MrFawknSunshineJul 18, 20182 votes

ok well if you are new to garen i would recommend going resolve primary with grasp, bone plating if vs auto /range poke/dps or demolish to get turrets. conditioning and overgrowth and secondary you can go celerity and scorch/gathering storm or triumph and coupe de grace

start Q lvl one in nearly all match ups, E 2nd and W 3rd . i typically take Q for 3 lvls/points then max E then max W last.

builds you want ad/armor pen and cdr with HEALTH and resistances

once you get more verse in the ways of justice you can try more snowball/carry builds

typically of late i been going triforce into sterak's into tanky items and if need finish with ghostblade or last whisper item when people start stacking armor.

for ideas of items/skill order/ runes etc https://lolalytics.com/ranked/worldwide/platinum/plus/champion/Garen/

AriosHeartshieldJul 18, 20181 votes

Thank you so much!

Meteor DrizJul 18, 20181 votes

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Blue Collar BearJul 18, 20181 votes

I'd definitely suggest these videos. Pay close attention to learning how to trade.

AriosHeartshieldJul 18, 20181 votes

Thank you!

hi ìm grootJul 18, 20181 votes

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Vlada CutJul 18, 20181 votes

You can go either max q triforce or max e black cleaver. As a Juggernaut hus damage relies on armornshredding opponents to inittially increase his damage dealt to them. The point is simple, play the laning phase passively and play itnaround you healing passive, it regenerates your hp ahen not being attacked by enemy champions, so once you heal uo make sure you silence(q) and e(armor break)them. Your ultimate servers as an execution tool so, Q E R someone who is squishy or has mediocre HP with not so hugh armor and you'll get a kill on him. Oh and? Your W shirtens the duration if enemy CC and reduces incoming damage. So in teamfights, rush with your Q towards an enemy, W when they are about to stun or burst the crap out of you, silence the picked target, E and R them. Either take othera down or fall back so your paasive can regen you back to max hp and strike again. Oh and your ultimate has a villain mechanic, the enemy with most kills gets marked as the villain, usually it's the enemy carry who is marked as the villain, so you deal more damage to marked enemy champion. That's where your Q W E R combo all in will usually go to. For the Keystones, I personally use(d) Grasp of the Undying and Conqueror, although Electrocute is good for full ad/lethality build(makes yiu squishy tho). For the masteries. Always. Take. CONDITIONING. It' synergizes with your W's free 40 armor and magic ressist gain. Grasp is good if you want max E black cleaver shred combo, Conqueror for max Q triforce combo. For the items, you will buy either 6 of the following: item 3071 / item 3078 , item 3111 (stacks well with your W's active which gives you tenacity aka cc duraction reduction, these boots will boost them even more), item 3053 (it's a sweet sweet cherry topping on a cake because it gives you ad, hp and a shield and bonus tenacity!), item 3742 (Garen is slow when his Q is on cd, since itngives him bonus movement speed besides the silence part, and this item builds soeed stacks and detonates when you throw your Q at someone. That's gotta hurt!), item 3065 (A lot of hp, magic ressist and increases regenerating poeer of your passive healing!), item 3812 (Gives you a LOT of damage and heals you for a part of damage you deal, it's an amazing sustain when fighting, since yournpassive healing works only ahen out of combat). item 3083 (It's decent, a lot of ho but no deffenses sadly, but has superior hp regeneration than spirit visage does) and item 3143 (it synergizes really well with item 3047 since aa champions who also build crit will barely dk any damage to you, you will jabe high armor and block a lot of damage at the same time) are also a good substitute for item 3111 if the enemy team is cull AD and has no ap, or you are simply fighting against a lot of auto attack based champions.

Personally, as a retired Garen main I preffer Conqueror, becausenother masteries fo really well and you get a lot of damage and better execution on your R, also you can always take Resolve's Conditioning as your secondary rune tree. I also preffer maxing Q then E. So my runes for him are: Primary rune: Precision: Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Secondary rune: Resolve: Bone Plating and Conditioning. For the Grasp one, you can go like this: Primary Rune: Resolve: Grasp of the Undying, Bone Plating, Conditioning, Unflinching/Overgrowth, Secondary rune: Precision: Legend Tenacity and Coup de Grace For the build path, I use both 1st item rushes, it's risky but rewardive: item 3078 item 3071 item 3111 item 3053 item 3812 item 3742

Thanks for reading. Have a nice day!