Suggestion 4 a Garen Rework

RC38Boss·7/20/2017, 10:12:29 PM·3 votes·1,479 views
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This is my first post, so please don't eat me........don't eat the help.....

[(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_1eoUEnI18)]

Now, I really like Garen, I think he might be my favorite League champion but I noticed even though he does not use mana, energy or rage/fury bars he's not meta.

For while I just couldn't understand why, he's got movement speed boost, scaling magic resist and armor and even has a ulit that kills people, sometimes, when it’s not blocked by barrier, spell shield or canceled out by a last second heal.

Why isn't Garen considered to be a meta/Hi Elo champ and then I realised, he doesn't have anything that really makes him standout, hes just a swordsman.

There is so little in his kit to make him effective either as a tank or fighter, as a tank he doesn't scale as well as your Malphite or Galio's as a fighter he doesn't do as much damage as your Rivens or your Renekton and his kit is predictable and offers less utility than both tanks/vangards and your run of the mill fighters.

Someone once told me "main reason why Garen will never get to the championship stage is because everything he can do, another champion can do better."

I really didn't want to believe this at first but after doing bit more research, I found out it was true. In nearly every aspect of combat Garen is lacking whether it was in his team-fight potential, or his overall damage or general utility/practical applications of kit it was just lacking compared to your Kennens, your Dr. Mundo's and your Tryndamere's.

So what could be done to change this, what do be done, to make Garen more appealing, to keep the skill floor the same but to make him more rewarding for people who would like to master him, while at the same time not making him OP but making him more team-play focused?

Well here are a few suggestions

New passive

Momentum & Restoration This gives garen a brand new kind of bar, that “can” charge 2 things at the same time,

[(http://opgg-static.akamaized.net/images/lol/passive/Garen_Passive.png?image=c_scale,w_50&v=1)]

Passive Part 1 Momentum Garens maximum cooldown is increased by 5%, making his new maximum cooldown 50% and after Garen has been in combat for at least 3 seconds, he will start to gain Momentum while Garen deals or receives damage his movement speed is increased by 25% and his cooldown reductions are increased 25% scaling over 6 seconds.

Passive Part 2 Restoration Garens maximum Health is increased by 5% and when Garen has not been moving for at least 3 seconds he will regenerate 1% up to 6% of his health over 6 seconds. His health will keep regenerating at an accelerated rate until he starts move to again, during this point his Restoration will get gradually decrease.

Decisive Strike [(https://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/7/74/Garen_Poro_Icon.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/120?cb=20160208232552)]

Garen gains a burst of movement speed, breaking free of all slows affecting him, when in range Garen leaps at his target, His next attack shreds the armor of his foe, while dealing a % his base damage and silencing them.

Once you purchase your ultimate this is increased 25/30/45 per point invested into Might Of Demacia.

Courage & Perseverance [(http://scontent.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/s480x480/e15/11184707_1416279735357165_1099731545_n.jpg?ig_cache_key=OTcxNzgwNjgxODUwMjY0NTU2.2)]

Garen passively increases his armor, magic resist health by killing or assisting in killing enemies. Garen activates AOE shield that surrounds him, any teammate inside the shield have his and their incoming damage reduced for a short time but the duration and size of the shield increases by 10% per teammate inside.

Once you purchase your ultimate the duration and size of the shield increases by 15%/20%/25% per point invested into Might Of Demacia

The Kings Judgment [(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/15_CkWRGDI8/maxresdefault.jpg)]

Garen rapidly spins his sword around his body for 3 seconds, dealing damage to all enemies around him for the duration and shredding the armor of enemy champions hit. Each rotation reduces enemy armor by 10 point, once you purchase your ultimate the armour shred is increased 15/20/30 per point invested into Might Of Demacia.

Might Of Demacia

[(http://img.cdn.ved.com.vn/web/lmht360/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/demacian_justice__by_jacobmasinick-d7e7of5.jpg)]

Garen calls upon the might of Demacia to deal a crippling blow to all enemies in his path, Garen leaps toward a targeted enemy champion and after short duration reduces the sight radius of all enemy champions in “range” and turns the “ground” that targeted enemy champion is on into Demacian domain, reducing the movement speed, magic resist and armour of all enemies on the area of effect and dealing true damage based on the enemy's max health over 5 seconds.

So this is a targeted AOE blind that last 2 seconds the scaling reduction to the movement speed, magic resist and armour lasts 5 seconds and the true damage lasts 5 seconds.

Passive each point put into the Might Of Demacia, increases the armor shred of The Kings Judgment and Decisive Strike and using Might Of Demacia, automatically activates Courage & Perseverance even if the skill is on cooldown.

The main reason for this thread was to give a suggestion of what kind of champion Garen could be, if his kit was more team focused and if he had unique features such as being a tank buster, similarly to a Vanye or Kog'Maw but in this case Melee version.

Let me know what you lot think and thank you for reading, Garen [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

15 Comments

jasonkik7/20/2017, 11:24:50 PM2 votes

I really like your vision of Garen and I agree that his theme is rather simplistic and boring compared to the other champions. Speaking of simplicity, the kit you want to see him have is rather.... complex. To me, Garen is suppose to be a champion for newbies, much like Warwick. However, Warwick has the great balance of simplicity and viability in his kit and I would love to see Garen in the future with that balance. But I don't think Riot has any plans to give Garen a rework anytime soon.

LightningShado7/21/2017, 4:28:48 AM1 votes

Tweaks necessary but it's good.

Colonel J8/1/2017, 10:58:44 PM1 votes

Garen uses a giant sword so all their spells should cleave like titanic.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ESLY2uOg68M

Helmet Br09/14/2017, 11:19:46 PM1 votes

I like the idea, but I feel you need to make post clearer for people to understand and I would prefer if Garen's Decisive Strike, knocked up enemies instead of silenced them.

Meh, in the end good post, but needs to be clearer!

Best regards SASxShinobi

TimX24968B9/14/2017, 11:22:56 PM1 votes

suggestion for garen rework: stop suggesting reworks for a champion thats not designed for higher elos. there's a reason this game isn't balanced around pro play.

RC38Boss9/14/2017, 11:29:54 PM1 votes

For everyone else, thank you for commenting, I do appreciate it [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

HonorableFool9/14/2017, 11:35:18 PM1 votes

I agree that Garen is too simple. Garen needs a rework to give him play making abilites with a unique theme (not a stereotypical knight),as well as making him beginner friendly. [garen-swing]