Playing that ap xin vs garen
Garen has no chance!
Garen has no chance!
To be fair, that Garen had a god-awful build early on for his opponent.
Garen has two lane strategies he has to employ; either outsustain or drive out his lane opponents. AP Xin is someone that Garen needs to drive out, so he needs to play aggressive and go for early damage (I like Black Cleaver for that). Since AP Xin has in-fight sustain while Garen has out-of-fight sustain (And really he only has that post-11), the idea of tanking Xin is a fundamentally flawed one that just further increases AP Xin's power against him.
As well, this Garen did a generally poor job at engaging and trading. Again, he needed to play more aggressive and zone Xin out away from the minions to prevent any kind of healing for Xin.
Still, an amusing video to watch.
Yeah, You are right about that mistake Garen made. Before I started to win lane, though, Garen stated that I shouldn't play ap xin in ranked because it was a joke. I think he just didn't think much of me and decided to build for late game, which of course never came. Taht build might have worked out for him later on if his team was able to carry and do damage and he would just face roll us.