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[1.1.0] Garen Guide - Your guide to Justice

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Your guide to Justice

Slay your foes with the strength of Demacia!

Garen Build

Best Build Guide for Garen

Core items
Long Sword
Cloth Armor
Null-Magic Mantle
Boots of Speed
Common final build
Black Cleaver
Youmuu's Ghostblade
Dead Man's Plate
Sterak's Gage
Spirit Visage
Glorious Enchant
Boots choice
Plated Steelcaps
Mercury's Treads
Boots of Swiftness

Item Build Description

Additional information on the items

You have different options as starting items.
• Long sword, so your attacks will pack quite a punch!
• Cloth armour, if you need to survive lane until your ultimate power spike.
• Null magic mantle, I don’t recommend starting with it because of your W and low damage of mages before ultimate spikes, but against AP top and jungle it can be decent.
• Boots of Speed, if you want to get a cheater recall at level 4 and come back for that level 5 engage!

• Black Cleaver is an easy choice given the Phage passive and Garen’s ability to instantly (almost) apply all the shred stacks with his E in a matter of seconds.

• Yommu’s gives an insane amount of movement speed out of combat and your next auto will deal extra magic damage, providing more burst and allowing the enemies to struggle to itemise against you.

• DMP (Dead Man’s Plate) is the armour version of Yommu’s, and they stack with each other! Your next auto will deal up to 100 magic damage and slow the target. And you really like that.

• Sterak’s Gage (Ster-ak... ahah) helps you survive deadly combos from burst mages or Darius’ dunks, provides good offensive and defensive stats.

• Spirit Visage is your best option against mages because this item’s passive synergises with your passive.

If you need more magic resistance, you can swap DMP with Adaptive Helm.

Boots choice:
• Tabis into AA users;
• Mercs into heavy CC;
• Swiftness if you feel you can survive without more defensive stuff and you don’t like being slowed.

Garen Runes

Best Runes for Garen

Keystone
Conqueror
Conqueror
Domination
Hunter Vampirism
Hunter Vampirism
Resolve
Adaptive Carapace
Adaptive Carapace
Inspiration
Pack Hunter
Pack Hunter
• Conqueror gets stacked super fast with your E. Love the extra AD! (Grasp is a viable alternative though).
• You can pick Hunter or Brutal here. Both are good.
• Spirit Wanderer is just too good on anyone... slow resistance is perfect on this guy.
• Pack Hunter is amazing for team fights and skirmishes, but you can also take Mastermind for even deadlier splitpush.

Skill Order

How to distribute skill points

Perseverance
Perseverance - Passive
Decisive Strike
Decisive Strike
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Courage
Courage
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Judgment
Judgment
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Demacian Justice
Demacian Justice
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Summoner Spells

When to take which summoners

Flash
Ignite
Ghost
Useful if you want to opt into TELEPORT instead of RIGHTEOUS GLORY.

Garen Matchups & Counters

Detailed information on how to play matchups and counters

Jax
Medium
Jax
• If he uses his counter strike, use E since it won’t interrupt when he stuns you, and try to time your W to reduce stun duration and damage received.
• Once his leap is down, it’s free game for you.
• The extra resistances of his ultimate combined with the extra damage on his third autos can prove tricky to deal with. Don’t underestimate him.
Garen

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Work in progress on matchups!

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