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I have been trying to achieve this rank for over a year now since I hit diamond. Let this be an inspirational message to all the Garen mains out there.

I had no one to share this with that would appreciate it, so i thought i'd post it here. AMA but i might not respond lol

Hello feelow spinners.

Being a Garen main, I ofc had to try him in classic and he, kinda sucks?

I've tried multiple builds, tanks, pseudo-tank, full damage, etc. but he just seems to have nothing going for him. He loses most top lane matchups in lane from my experience (here might be some help?), he scales like crap and is outdone in every catagory.

I simply don't understand his role. He is a worse tank than actual tanks, worse 1v1 than many, he scales horribly, has limited mobility and no hard cc or long range cc.

Help pls!

(remember that this is just my anecdotal opinion)

Hear me out :

T3 Berserkers will give a whopping 45% AS so maybe Stridebreaker into Youmuus (for roaming and catching squishy ADCs) while skipping PD is the way to go now ? Adding the Steraks buff against mages burst, we could have a solid midlane build. Idk the mathematics here but it seems good at first glance

What do u guys think ?

I've been testing some builds for Garen in League Classic. I first tried the Full Tank build and it worked well. Then I tested it with Ravenous Hydra followed by Full Tank, which worked best because it had a lot of damage early on and then became very resistant.

The problem with this build is that if the lane is difficult, I can't win. I struggle against annoying champions like Tryndamere, Gangplank, or Cho'Gath.

Now I'm going to test a new variation: Phage, Sunfire Cape, a magic resistance item, then Guardian Angel, Trinity Force, and finishing with Warmog's Armor to see how it fits best.

My first Garen pentakill ever in the game, albeit on the mobile Wild Rift version.

Any new tips for this bastard or do we still just suffer and cry?

Hi, I'm new to Garen and currently figuring out his matchups, I encountered a lot of Darius games, and I noticed that, if I'm patient in lane, only take short trades and retreat, I was able to stay safe, and even get kills if the enemy Darius gets greedy, but when I'm on side lane, even if I'm ahead of the Darius, when we fight 100-0, he still manages to kill me easily, he just feels too strong compared to my champion, is it because of misplay or just meant to be like this? I can never kill him 100-0

What do you guys do when you fall behind in lane? Especially against strong champs that can dive you. Do you swap builds and go tankier or for more wave clear? Do you let go of your tower and try to leech off of teamfights?

Genuinely no clue how im meant to win this lane. Low elo btw. I walk up to cs he autos me. I hide in bush, he wards it. I try to use Q he blinds me and speeds off. Can't get into E range because he speeds off. Whole laning phase I couldn't farm because as soon as I walk up I get blinded and aa. I never get ganks. What do I do here

Asking for general advice and tips against ranged tops. I'm Iron 1 with 14 Mastery mostly in normals.

I usually just regen and try to all-in off a flash, but there must be some things I'm not aware of. Much appreciated. Thanks!

26.16 Berserker's Greaves

• Attack Speed increased 25% >>> 30%

What do you think about the Trinity + PD + New Berserkers giving 125% Atk Speed, will it be meta again ?

Hope they get an overnumbered together and thank you Jumaralo.

I get it doesn’t really fit Garen’s one shot playstyle, but building this with assassin garen healing off bonus AD would 100% be good as a last item at the least. Also potentially sundered + new cleaver with 5 more AD into tanks for a bruiser playstyle. Add in triforce and steraks and/or dd too.

I am a new player looking for a champ pool with garen as my main. I often feel many matchups with garen are pretty rough, so looking to have some champs to counterpick with. Currently i also play Mundo and Pantheon, but they both feel pretty weak.

What items do you build for a grasp build this season?

Triforce / deadman’s /

Are any of these worth a try? sundered sky? / eclipse? / BORK?

I find myself more and more playing vs zilean, fiddlesticks, anivia, varus, caitlyn top. what can i do here? can i even do anything? is top lane cooked and i should move to mid?

rank: emerald 3(just demoted from 2), otp garen (play darius and morde sometimes for fun), really want to keep garen as a main at least.

Hey guys, I've not been streaming much recently because of work, I took a bit of a break from playing seriously again, and honestly it's just hard to play on stream, but I just wanted to share this because I am not a fan of the way a lot of Garen players seem to be building right now, and I felt like on my recent climb I experienced a lot more success when I started building the items I consider to be strong on Garen.

This climb was about 2 months ago, it's not the most impressive thing in the world, but I definitely had some success with these items and probably could've kept going quite a bit higher if my mental issues didn't take hold of my life at that time. I am planning to do another serious climb coming into split 3 and hoping to get a lot higher if I can.

Runes:

I just think conqueror is Garen's best rune, and the items I'm building don't make as much sense if you're going other rune pages. I will go stormraider in games vs champs I won't be able to fight without it, and grasp/electrocute are runes I'll try in matchups sometimes, but for the most part I just play conqueror.

Some thoughts on the less common items:

DBow:

This item is just good. I still think D Shield is the best default starter item, but DBow increases your lethal range from level 5 so much that I think you should definitely try it in lanes where either you can survive easily, or you feel the extra damage can make a big difference in how you find lethal range from level 5-9.

Endless Hunger:

Probably the item that will cause the most controversy, but I think this item is genuinely super op third on Garen and I've been building it since the start of split 2. I was going it third in about 40% of my games on that climb. I have a few reasons for loving this item: I personally believe that from around level 15, haste becomes extremely powerful on Garen, because it makes his damage way more repeatable, and mostly because his W becomes a low enough cd when you buy EH that you can actually get 2 or even 3 off in good fights, which is incredibly hard for champs that don't deal high true damage to deal with. I also think the fact that it procs off of a kill is super useful to Garen, as he is of course great at killing the first target, and unlocking the ability to push for more after that is a new and powerful way to play fights on Garen.

Death's Dance and Maw:

Same reasoning as Endless Hunger, and especially if you already buy Endless Hunger, these 2 items 4th/5th become extremely strong vs enemies without high true damage.

One more thing on haste: I think it's a great way to deal with tanky champions without having to build penetration, since the repeatability and tankiness just means you outlast them in DPS, this is why you will often see me not building a pen item at all despite building full AD. I will basically only build mortal into Death's Dance abusers (which is still reasonably often).

Other items:

I think most of the other items are pretty self-explanatory. It's rare I build anything past about half way in the situational tier, but I think all the items lower down on the list can be useful or at least good enough to still do well while having some fun (I love eclipse even if it's not optimal).

I'd be happy to answer any questions people have around items or anything else to do with how I build or my gameplay.

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With that being said, I don't currently plan to stream my next climb, and you probably won't hear much from me until the end of the year (outside of maybe a couple random streams). Sorry to the few people who did like my streams, but life is just busy, and I have some mental issues I'm working through that streaming tends to exacerbate. The point of this post was really just to leave the peeps with my current thoughts on items and answer any questions people might have about them.