Garen

The Might of Demacia

MidPatch 16.21Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

55%

Pick rate

Ban rate

Games

305

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite
90%55%273
Flash + Ghost
6.6%—20

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Shield, Health Potion
30%51%93
Doran's Shield, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
24%54%74
Doran's Helm, Health Potion
12%—36

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Stridebreaker → Youmuu's Ghostblade → Voltaic Cyclosword
16%—49
Stridebreaker → Phantom Dancer → Mortal Reminder
6.9%—21

Boots

Boots of Swiftness
71%56%218
Berserker's Greaves
16%50%50
Plated Steelcaps
5.9%—18

Later items

Not enough games run this long yet to say what goes in the last slots.

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

Max order·Judgment → Decisive Strike → Courage

83%58%252

Level by level

SplitEveryone

The most common ability to level at each level, one to eighteen
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q		Q						Q		Q		Q	Q
W			W											W	W		W	W
E	E			E	E		E		E
R						R					R					R

Matchups

No lane opponent has come up 60 times yet. Counters need a bigger sample than builds do — a few points either way is noise until then.

Counted from 38,061 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.21 by Emerald 2+ players on EUW, read from Riot's match API. Percentages are shares of the games in this lane, not of the builds listed — so three rows adding to less than 100% means the rest of the games did something else. Win rates are hidden where there are too few games to state one.