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Garen Build

Support Tier 3

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 909 gamesUpdated

39.8%win rate0.0%pick6.1%ban

Who counters Garen

How to build Garen

Berserker's Greaves→Stridebreaker→Phantom Dancer→Mortal Reminder

Berserker's Greaves → Stridebreaker → Phantom Dancer → Mortal Reminder

57.7% win rate 5% of games 26 games
RunesSorceryStormraider's SurgeAxiom ArcanistCelerityGathering StormResolveOvergrowthSecond Wind29% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite73%
Skills
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Decisive Strike
19101213
Courage
314151718
Judgment
24578
Demacian Justice
61116
StartWorld AtlasHealth PotionHealth PotionWorld Atlas, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Garen build →

Best ADCs for Garen

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

Worst ADCs for Garen

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

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.

39.8%win rate
Patch 26.20: 39.5% over 1,726 gamesPatch 26.21: 39.8% over 909 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
0.0%pick rate
6.1%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
30.0%under 22 min
43.5%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. 2 from Master and above, then down the ladder as far as Emerald — Garen Support is not played often enough at the top to fill 10 games on its own.

Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Garen champion portraitS Garen+Caitlyn champion portraitB CaitlynvsVel'Koz champion portraitS Vel'Koz+Jhin champion portraitB Jhin
6 / 11 / 7

Build

BloodsongMercury's Treads|Stridebreaker→Phantom Dancer→Dead Man's Plate

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QEWEEREQEQRWQ
Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Garen champion portraitS Garen+Xerath champion portraitB XerathvsUrgot champion portraitS Urgot+Kai'Sa champion portraitB Kai'Sa
4 / 11 / 1

Build

Solstice SleighBerserker's Greaves|Stridebreaker→Hullbreaker

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

QEWEEREQEQRQQW
Loss 25–30m
DIAMOND
Garen champion portraitS Garen+Yunara champion portraitB YunaravsLeona champion portraitS Leona+Lucian champion portraitB Lucian
5 / 9 / 2

Build

Solstice SleighBerserker's Greaves|Phantom Dancer→Stridebreaker→Dead Man's Plate

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

EQWEEREQEQRQQW

Runes

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

Most popular 35.7% win rate · 29% of games · 207 games
SorceryStormraider's SurgeAxiom ArcanistCelerityGathering Storm
ResolveOvergrowthSecond Wind
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 39.9% win rate · 27% of games · 193 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 + Ignite73%40.1%715 games
  • ExhaustFlashExhaust + Flash9%33.3%84 games

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

Boots
Berserker's Greaves48%Boots of Swiftness26%Plated Steelcaps17%
Berserker's Greaves most often · 41.6% win rate
Support item
Celestial Opposition35%Bloodsong33%Solstice Sleigh16%No support item8%
Celestial Opposition most often · 41.3% 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 Support is at 928 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 · 928 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Berserker's GreavesBerserker's Greaves
45% · 43.0% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
24% · 43.1% win rate
Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
16% · 36.4% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
9% · 31.3% win rate
BootsBoots
3% · 35.5% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Stridebreaker+Berserker's Greaves5% of games · 31.1% win rate · 45 games
  2. Stridebreaker›Phantom Dancer+Berserker's Greaves5% of games · 38.1% win rate · 42 games
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 ADCs 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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