Garen Build Guides, Runes, Items, and Abilities - Patch 14.12
Garen The Might of Demacia
Find the best Garen build guides for League of Legends S14 Patch 14.12. The MOBAFire community works hard to keep their LoL builds and guides updated, and will help you craft the best Garen build for the S14 meta. Learn more about Garen's abilities, skins, or even ask your own questions to the community!
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How to beat boosted top laners with Garen
How to beat boosted top laners with Garen
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[12.2] The Bruiser Carry *In Depth Build*
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Garen has the zoomies!?!?
Garen has the zoomies!?!?
deathcaap mobafire
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Garen Guide For Beginners
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Kibo's Garen Idea? Patch 11.24B
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Gold Getter Garen (1st strike mid)
Gold Getter Garen (1st strike mid)
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Garen for beginners/ Top lane
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Sigma male garen guide
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Garen becomes a 80 ton truck barreling down the freeway
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[11.24] Strong Jungle Garen build
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Health Stat Garen
garbar
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Undying Garen
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Garen is Best Mid?!
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NEW ITEMS Ad Garen 1v9 carry Best build Top/Bot
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A Garen Guide for Beginers, Learn the keys to start playing
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✔️ [11.12] God-King Conqueror Garen
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[11.10] How I climb with Garen in Season 11 [In-Depth]
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ZeruelOP's Garen Guide
Garen Build & Runes
If you're looking for the best rune build for Garen we've got you covered. Below you can find the best items and runes to build for Garen, as determined by calculations of thousands of Plat+ League of Legends games. If you are already familiar with how to play Garen this is a great resource to quickly get a good rune selection for Patch 14.12. However, if you are a new Garen player we highly recommend reading through some of the guides above to learn why this build is strong on Garen!
* Each section of the build is rated independently of the others
Garen's Runes
51%
Win Rate 47% Pickrate
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- 2
- 3
Second Best
52%
Win Rate 27% Pickrate
Third Best
52%
Win Rate 23% Pickrate
Garen's Summoner Spells
52%
Win Rate 80% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Garen's Starters
51%
Win Rate 82% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Garen's Core Items
56%
Win Rate 14% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Boots
Garen's Luxury Items
Garen's Ability Order
51%
Win Rate 45% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Perseverance (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
53%
Win Rate 20% Pickrate
Perseverance (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Third Best
51%
Win Rate 4% Pickrate
Perseverance (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
* Each section of the build is rated independently of the others
Garen's Runes
54%
Win Rate 39% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Second Best
57%
Win Rate 35% Pickrate
Third Best
55%
Win Rate 22% Pickrate
Garen's Summoner Spells
55%
Win Rate 79% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Garen's Starters
54%
Win Rate 82% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Garen's Core Items
63%
Win Rate 20% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Boots
Garen's Luxury Items
Garen's Ability Order
56%
Win Rate 41% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Perseverance (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
56%
Win Rate 18% Pickrate
Perseverance (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Third Best
53%
Win Rate 5% Pickrate
Perseverance (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Garen Counters
Learn Garen's counters and discover matchups where they have an advantage! When you're starting a game of League of Legends you should always keep in mind if you'll be at an advantage or disadvantage against your opponent, so you can know whether to bully them or play safe. You can find detailed breakdowns of each matchup on CounterStats, and you can also check out some Garen guides to see how to build and play against other champions you may find yourself up against!
This counter data is for Garen TOP in Plat+ games. The percent shown is the enemy champion's counter rating against Garen. Counter rating is our own statistic that factors in counter kills, overall kills, early lead ratio, comeback ratio, and win percent to give the whole picture of that champion's effectiveness as a counter pick.
Best Against Garen
Worst Against Garen
Garen Skins
Find Garen's skins and when they were last on sale. Never miss a sale for your favorite skin by using our Wish List feature! You can also find all Garen skins and chromas on Garen's skins page.
Our Wish List feature will send you notifications when your skins are on sale!Garen's Abilities
His next attack silences for 1.5 seconds and does 30 / 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 (+0.5 per attack damage) physical damage.
Active: Garen steels his courage for 4 seconds, reducing incoming damage by 30%. He also gains 65 / 85 / 105 / 125 / 145 (+18% per bonus health) shield and 60% tenacity for 0.75 seconds.
Champions hit by 6 strikes lose 25% armor for 6 seconds.
Questions About Garen
Latest Questions
how i choose a hero??
I play well with garen and now i want to choose to a stronger cahmpion but i dont know how after searching a admire the abilty of camille but worry to buy it does camille is good or not? if not what the champion i can choose?
GAREN SUPPORT
I NEED YOUR OPINION THAT GAREN HOW TO BE A SUPPORT CHAMP IT'S CRAZY I KNOW .. BUT I NEED A GOOD ANSWER
what champs are like poppy and garen
I have been playing Garen and Poppy a lot. I want to play more champs like them what is your guy's suggestions. I love having the option to play a tank or bruiser depending on the items I buy.
Best Champion for 1350 IP?
So, I have been saving up my IP, but it is burning a hole in my pocket so, I wanted to know what's the best champion for 1350 IP. So far, I have Blitzcrank, Amumu, Soraka, Garen, and Annie. I have been trying to ADC with Ezrael and Kog'Maw but...
Why do people build Warmog's Armor on Garen?
I have seen a few guides that suggest Warmog's on Garen, but I don't understand why Garen needs Warmog's when he has Perseverance. Isn't Spirit Viasage good enough for HP regen? Seems like a waste to build Warmog's on Garen since Warmog's doesn't...
How viable is jungle Garen now that the 5.16 changes are out?
I've seen jg Garen played before, and while some of his ganks against enemies that cant escape were good, his ganks(that I have seen) generally don't work and his camp clear was mediocre at best. [b]However, with the new passive in his ultimate in...
How can we Buff Garens W?
So, everyone knows and loves (Ok, maybe not everyone) [[Garen]]. He was probably one of the first champs that 80% of use tried to use when we first started. He is a solid pick right now with the tank meta and has a really good early and mid game....
Is Garen jungle viable?
I actually tried it a few times and it didn't seemed such a bad idea to me. Yeah, the ganks are not as good, but [[garen]] is not an insta lane winner like [[darius]]. Garen is an ultimate tank but he is prone to losing his lane. By going Garen...
Garen and Divine
Hello Mobafire forum! Just a question, does garen's [[judgment]] work with the active crit of [[sword of the divine]]?
VERY basic question about runes from a noobie
Hey guys, im new here so go easy on me :) So i started playing LOL a week and half ago after having watched my bros play for 2 years, but the thing is i've been setting up my builds and spells and masteries nicely from builds on here (you go...
Starting 9 pots + Red Elixir viable on Garen?
So recently, I have been seeing a lot of Riven players (as well as a few Tryndameres and a Lee Sin) who start out with 9 health pots and a red elixir. That start seems to work fairly well for them so I started wondering what other champions would...
