Mid · 23 games · KR

Garen

Mid · 26% of games Top · 72%

On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+547 gold).

Win rate: 47.8%; ±20.4 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: B; #27 of 64
Pick rate: 0.3%; ban 0.3%
Games: 23; ranked solo/duo

Garen mid wins 47.8% of 23 ranked games in KR, rank 27 of 64 mid champions (tier B). Most players finish Stridebreaker first, at about 11:30.

The build at a glance

What most Garen players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Item 1

Stridebreaker 11:31 · 100% · 22 games

Boots

Boots of Swiftness 11:48 · 74% of games

Item 2 · late game

Phantom Dancer 16:06 · 7 of 17 games

Item 3 · late game

Sterak's Gage 20:36 · 6 of 14 games

Item 4 · late game

Randuin's Omen 23:18 · 3 of 7 games

Runes

Conqueror · Precision + Sorcery 26% of games · 67% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Shield + Health Potion 70% of games · 44% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Ignite 87% of games · 50% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Judgment first 96% of games · 50% wins Skill orders →

When Garen wins

Win rate by game length

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Ends before 25′55% wins48% of games · 11

Lasts 25′ or more42% wins52% of games · 12

Lanes

No clear counters yet

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Garen games

First Baron: 88% against 27%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First Baron 27% 88% +61

Rift Herald 33% 75% +42

First tower 25% 60% +35

First dragon 38% 60% +22

First blood 40% 54% +14

First Voidgrubs 58% 36% −22

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Garen plays

More damage to towers, fewer multikills

What stands out (10% or more) against the average mid laner. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

More damage to towers11631 against 6333 · +84%

Fewer multikills a game0.30 against 0.67 · −55%

More solo kills a game2.5 against 1.6 · +55%

Fewer assists a game3.9 against 6.1 · −36%

More minions a minute8.7 against 7.7 · +13%

About average: damage, share of team damage, time spent dead.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~11:30

Item 2done ~17:06

Item 3done ~21:18

Item 4done ~25:12

Most common full builds

Boots of Swiftness › Stridebreaker › Phantom Dancer › Sterak's Gage 33.3%6 games

Stridebreaker › Boots of Swiftness › Serpent's Fang › Youmuu's Ghostblade 100.0%3 games

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Not enough games against this kind of team yet.

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Doran's Shield + Health Potion43.8%16

Doran's Blade + Health Potion75.0%4

Doran's Helm + Health Potion50.0%2

Boots

Boots of Swiftness ~11:4852.9%17

Berserker's Greaves ~6:0033.3%6

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite50.0%20

Flash + Ghost50.0%2

Flash + Teleport0.0%1

Skills

Max

W50.0%22

Max

Q0.0%1

Start

W66.7%9

Start

Q40.0%5

Dies about as often as most mid laners, and more of it is ganks

Before 14 minutes Garen dies 2.2 times a game (average 2.2). 58% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 52% for the average mid laner. 32% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.2deaths per game before 14′about average (2.2)

58%involve the enemy junglermore than average (52%)

68%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (68%)

60%with no teammate nearabout average (61%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Garen dies before 14 minutes

Ganked in your half of mid, collapsed on in their half of mid

Ganks: 28% in your half of mid. Collapses: 40% in their half of mid. 1-v-1s: 50% in your half of mid.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average mid laner

What kills Garen

Kind of death

Garen Average

Gank 58% (avg 52%)Collapse 10% (avg 16%)1-v-1 32% (avg 32%)

Who gets the kill

Garen Average

Bot laner 6% (avg 7%)Jungler 32% (avg 29%)Support 2% (avg 6%)Mid laner 54% (avg 52%)Top laner 6% (avg 5%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 2:00 and 5:00–9:00, then every minute

Garen Peak Average mid laner

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Ward the river before 2:00 and 5:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Garen; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Garen wins fights

Where fights happen

Before 14 minutes: 67 kills and 50 deaths.

Their half of mid 1.8 K/D 27 / 15

Your half of mid 0.3 K/D 6 / 18

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Garen wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsNo clear difference yetNear 30% of their team's dragon takes (average mid laner 26%). The team wins 75% when Garen is there and 54% when not.

Garen

What most Garen players run

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

First Baron: 88% against 27%

More damage to towers, fewer multikills

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

No clearly hard lane yet

No clearly easy lane yet

Not enough games yet

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Teammates that change Garen's games

Dies about as often as most mid laners, and more of it is ganks

Ganked in your half of mid, collapsed on in their half of mid

What kills Garen

Ganks come at 2:00 and 5:00–9:00, then every minute

Where fights happen

Where fights happen

Where fights happen