Garen

The Might of Demacia

TopPatch 16.17Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

46%

Pick rate

Ban rate

Games

236

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite
92%45%216

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Shield, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
28%49%67
Doran's Blade, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
16%—37
Doran's Shield, Health Potion
12%—28

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Stridebreaker → Youmuu's Ghostblade → Voltaic Cyclosword
9.3%—22

Boots

Boots of Swiftness
43%53%101
Berserker's Greaves
35%42%83
Plated Steelcaps
15%—36

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

90%48%212

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 7,138 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.