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Garen champion portrait

Garen Build

Bot Tier 3

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 378 gamesUpdated

44.6%win rate0.0%pick6.1%ban

Who counters Garen

  • Jhin champion portraitJhin44.4%72 games · 26.20
  • Kai'Sa champion portraitKai'Sa45.0%60 games · 26.20

How to build Garen

Berserker's Greaves→Mortal Reminder→Phantom Dancer→Infinity Edge

Berserker's Greaves → Mortal Reminder → Phantom Dancer → Infinity Edge

48.5% win rate 11% of games 33 games
RunesSorceryStormraider's SurgeAxiom ArcanistCelerityGathering StormResolveOvergrowthSecond Wind31% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite66%
Skills
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Decisive Strike
29101213
Courage
314151718
Judgment
14578
Demacian Justice
61116
StartDoran's ShieldHealth PotionDoran's Shield, Health Potion
Full Garen build →

Best supports for Garen

Who Garen has the best record alongside in the bot lane this patch.

  • Lux champion portraitLux69.1%55 games · 26.20
  • Yuumi champion portraitYuumi47.4%95 games · 26.20

Each pairing is weighed by the games behind it, so a lucky handful cannot top either list.

Pairings are only half a team. Team Comp Tuesdays builds full five-champion compositions around picks like this.

44.6%win rate
Patch 26.20: 44.4% over 731 gamesPatch 26.21: 44.6% over 378 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
0.0%pick rate
6.1%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
44.4%under 22 min
43.2%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 15–20m
MASTER+
Garen champion portraitB Garen+Blitzcrank champion portraitS BlitzcrankvsJhin champion portraitB Jhin+Sona champion portraitS Sona
8 / 2 / 1

Build

Boots of Swiftness|Stridebreaker→Black Cleaver

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

EWQEERQEEQRQ
Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Garen champion portraitB Garen+Thresh champion portraitS ThreshvsKai'Sa champion portraitB Kai'Sa+Rell champion portraitS Rell
18 / 5 / 5

Build

Boots of Swiftness|Stridebreaker→Youmuu's Ghostblade→Voltaic Cyclosword→Phantom Dancer

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

EWQEEREQEQRQQWWRWW
Loss 15–20m
MASTER+
Garen champion portraitB Garen+Nautilus champion portraitS NautilusvsKog'Maw champion portraitB Kog'Maw+Maokai champion portraitS Maokai
2 / 6 / 0

Build

Boots|Stridebreaker

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

WEQEEREQE

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 41.2% win rate · 31% of games · 97 games
SorceryStormraider's SurgeAxiom ArcanistCelerityGathering Storm
ResolveOvergrowthSecond Wind
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 44.6% win rate · 29% of games · 92 games
PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: HasteLast Stand
SorceryAxiom ArcanistCelerity
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite66%48.1%262 games
  • FlashGhostFlash + Ghost18%38.4%73 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Berserker's Greaves51%Boots of Swiftness40%Plated Steelcaps7%
Berserker's Greaves most often · 45.6% win rate

Garen build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

Whole-build counts start over with every patch, and Garen Bot is at 385 games so far this patch. The full build shows up here at 300.

Every slot, boots and full build for Garen →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 385 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Berserker's GreavesBerserker's Greaves
48% · 47.3% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
39% · 47.7% win rate
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Garen against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Garen's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number. The best and worst supports are ranked the same way, against Garen's average instead of 50%.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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