Garen

The Might of Demacia

TopPatch 16.17Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

47%

Pick rate

Ban rate

Games

449

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite
92%47%413
Flash + Teleport
4.2%—19

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Shield, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
28%50%127
Doran's Blade, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
14%32%65
Doran's Shield, Health Potion
13%43%58

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Stridebreaker → Youmuu's Ghostblade → Voltaic Cyclosword
9.1%—41
Stridebreaker → Phantom Dancer → Mortal Reminder
5.1%—23
Stridebreaker → Youmuu's Ghostblade → Mortal Reminder
3.8%—17

Boots

Boots of Swiftness
41%53%185
Berserker's Greaves
39%42%176
Plated Steelcaps
12%43%54

Later items

What fills each remaining slot

Fourth item

Dead Man's Plate
3.3%—

Fifth item

Not enough games yet

Sixth item

Not enough games yet

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

Max order·Judgment → Decisive Strike → Courage

91%48%409

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 11,768 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.17 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.