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Garen
Patch 16.3.1
TopDifficulty
Very Easy
Strength
Early
Mid
Late
Win Condition
Pressure side lanes to draw 2+ enemies to you. Use and to escape. In teamfights, do not peel; use your high movement speed to dive the enemy backline, silence the carry, and execute them with .
Playstyle
Simple but effective juggernaut. You focus on winning through attrition, utilizing your passive to out-sustain opponents before executing them with true damage. You alternate between a split-pusher and a high-speed flanker.
Strengths & Weaknesses
Strengths
- +Incredible sustain via allows you to take bad trades and simply heal up.
- + removes all slows, making you very difficult to pin down once you start moving.
- +High true damage execute on ignores all resistances and shields (if timed well).
- +Passive tankiness from stacking means you get free stats just for farming.
Weaknesses
- -Extremely kiteable; if you cannot reach the target with , you do zero damage.
- -No hard crowd control; you cannot stop a channel or peel effectively without killing the target.
- -Reliant on health leads; if you are behind, takes too long to kick in.
- -Telegraphed gameplay; enemies always know you are trying to run at them with .
Abilities
is your lane winner. If you lose a trade, back off for 8 seconds. You regenerate a % of health per second. Use this to force enemies to stay in lane while they are low while you return to full health.
is a multi-tool. It resets your auto-attack timer, cleanses slows, and silences. Use it AFTER the enemy slows you to instantly clear the debuff. The silence prevents enemies from Flashing away from your .
is about timing. The first 0.75s gives a massive shield and 60% tenacity. Press this exactly when the enemy is about to hit you with their CC or main burst. The passive part stacks Armor/MR per kill—focus on CS to get tanky.
deals more damage to the closest enemy. Try to position so only one champion is inside the circle. It shreds armor after 6 hits, which makes your or follow-up autos hit much harder.
is a True Damage execute. It deals damage based on missing health. Do not use this to start a fight. Use it only when the enemy is low enough to see the 'kill indicator' (if available) or around 25-30% HP.
Teamfight Role
Anti-Carry Diver
Your goal is to run past the tanks and silence the most fed enemy. Your deals massive AOE damage in the middle of their team, and lets you soak their initial cooldowns.
If your own carry is extremely fed and the enemy has a singular diver (like Master Yi), stay back and use to silence the diver so your carry can kill them.
Combos
Standard Trade
-> -> while spinning
The basic bread and butter. Silence them with so they can't use mobility to escape your . Use when they try to fight back inside your spin.
The Execute All-In
-> (shred armor) ->
Run at them with . Start immediately. The spin shreds their armor, making them lose health faster. Once they are low, finish with .
Advanced Burst
Auto -> -> ->
Since resets your auto-attack timer, always land a regular basic attack first if you are already in range. This maximizes damage before the silence starts.
Gap Close Surprise
(hold) -> Flash -> (hit) -> ->
Activate for the speed boost, then Flash onto the carry. The silence ensures they cannot use Zhonyas or Flash away before you start your and .
Power Spikes
| Spike | Why |
|---|---|
| Level 2 | Access to and allows you to proc Conqueror or Phase Rush quickly and win most melee trades. |
| Level 6 | is a massive threat. Many top laners cannot stay in lane below 40% health once you have your ultimate. |
| Level 11 | The health regeneration on increases significantly, and rank 2 deals much higher base execute damage. |
| Level 16 | rank 3 deals 450 + 35% missing HP as TRUE damage. You can execute tanks from nearly half health. |
Tips & Tricks
- •You can activate while spinning in . Always do this to reduce incoming damage during trades.
- • removes slows. If you are against Nasus or Olaf, wait for them to slow you before pressing .
- •You can cancel early by pressing the key again. Do this if the enemy is low enough to be executed by immediately.
- • spin speed scales with Attack Speed from items and levels. Do not buy 'on-hit' items like Hydra, as they don't proc on the spin.
- •Use to bait. Stay just out of vision while low on health; the enemy will think you backed, but you're actually healing to half health for a counter-kill.
- •The silence on lasts 1.5 seconds. This is long enough to prevent most champions from using their entire escape combo.
Common Mistakes
- ✕Using too early in a chase.→If the enemy slows you after you use , you have no way to cleanse it and will be kited to death.
- ✕Using at the start of a trade regardless of enemy abilities.→You waste the 0.75s shield/tenacity window on nothing, and they hit you with their CC afterward.
- ✕Spinning with inside an enemy minion wave while trying to freeze.→You will accidentally push the wave, leaving you vulnerable to ganks without an escape dash.
- ✕Using on a target with full health.→The ability deals damage based on MISSING health. It deals almost no damage to healthy targets and goes on a long cooldown.
- ✕Taking damage while trying to proc .→The cooldown for your passive resets every time you take damage from a champion. You must stay completely out of combat for it to work.
AI-generated guide • Patch 16.3.1 • Generated