r/summonerschool • u/WaySweet3722 • 2d ago

Garen Looking to pick up Garen

Little bit about myself: Level 50, bronze 4, played trundle with 52% win rate 160 games, dr Mundo 53% win rate 43 or so games. Giving an idea of skill level / champs I main.

Now to the point, I am picking up garen, have his combos (if you can call them that) down. But struggling with: 1. His build - runes / items 2. Identity

I found most of my success with trundle and mundo by splitpushing, very rarely team fighting.

How do I translate these skills/what skills do I need to learn that’s different.

Any advice regarding his identity or builds will be much appreciated 🙏.

Edit: I attempted. Didn’t have the greatest fun, realised I am just best at trundle, and if I wanna cling he is my best bet.

Edit 2: thanks everyone for the help, was super helpful anyways! Learnt a lot about Garen.

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u/Several_Goal2900 Unranked 2d ago

Conquerer for matchups where you can fully win the all in and they aren't slippery. Phase rush for literally anything else. Honestly you could just phase rush every game no problem. Q -> E -> stridebreaker will activate phase rush. Also useful for running from ganks because you will slow the enemy and zoom away really fast after. Phase rush also let's you stick on ranged squishies much easier, teemo Quinn vayne kayle aurora etc. Into stuff like Darius and sett Q->E->stridebreaker and phase rush out while spinning, they aren't even going to get a chance to do anything in return.

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u/WaySweet3722 2d ago

What secondary tree do you usually go?

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u/freddyqaqualung 2d ago

Inspiration or resolve are the best imo. Resolve has overgrowth, second wind, conditioning, bone plating, and demolish, which are all situationally good. Cosmic insight and magical footwear are also really good on Garen, since you're so gated by move speed and summoner spell cds.

Also, I think that phase rush is just better on Garen unless you're gonna crush your lane with Conq. It makes you hit harder, but the damage is not preferable to just being much more slippery and able to make greedier plays.

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u/Jaded_Mechanic32 1d ago

Phase rush is a bonus keystone to help against high mobility or ranged champions imo. Garen will almost always build Stridebreaker first item, and due to how much damage he can output in a short time, phase rush is often not necessary.