Garen Build, Runes & Counters — LoL Champion Guide

Win Rate

52.2%

Top

Pick Rate

4.8%

13,009 games

Tier

This patch

CS / min

7.3

68 @ 10min

Full Build Guide

Starters, core items, boots & situational for Garen

Playing as Garen

Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.

Playing against Garen

Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.

Playmaking

Kill participation

Solo kills / game

2.8

First blood rate

Damage / min

747

Kills / game

6.4

Early KDA (15 min)

2.81

Base stats (level 1)

690

HP regen

8.0

MP regen

0.0

Attack dmg

Attack spd

0.625

Armor

Magic resist

Move speed

340

Range

175

Strong vs · Top

Weak vs · Top

Abilities

Perseverance

If Garen has not recently been struck by damage or enemy abilities, he regenerates a percentage of his total health each second.

Decisive Strike

Garen gains a burst of Move Speed, breaking free of all slows affecting him. His next attack strikes a vital area of his foe, dealing bonus damage and silencing them.

CD 8sRange 300

Courage

Garen passively increases his Armor and Magic Resist by killing enemies. He may also activate this ability to give him a shield and tenacity for a brief moment followed by a lesser amount of damage reduction for a longer duration.

CD 22/19.5/17/14.5/12sRange 0

Judgment

Garen rapidly spins his sword around his body, dealing physical damage to nearby enemies.

CD 9/8.25/7.5/6.75/6sRange 325

Demacian Justice

Garen calls upon the might of Demacia to attempt to execute an enemy champion.

CD 120/100/80sRange 400

// lore

A proud and noble warrior, Garen fights as one of the Dauntless Vanguard. He is popular among his fellows, and respected well enough by his enemies—not least as a scion of the prestigious Crownguard family, entrusted with defending Demacia and its ideals. Clad in magic-resistant armor and bearing a mighty broadsword, Garen stands ready to confront mages and sorcerers on the field of battle, in a veritable whirlwind of righteous steel.

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