Mid · 60 games · NA

Garen

Mid · 19% of games Top · 81%

On average behind the lane opponent at 15 minutes (−71 gold), and still wins 52%.

Win rate: 51.7%; ±12.6 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: B; #29 of 70
Pick rate: 1.0%; ban 2.1%
Games: 60; ranked solo/duo

Garen mid wins 51.7% of 60 ranked games in NA, rank 29 of 70 mid champions (tier B). Most players finish Stridebreaker first, at about 12:30.

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 12:31 · 100% · 56 games

Boots

Boots of Swiftness 12:00 · 62% of games

Item 2

Phantom Dancer 18:53 · 48% · 23 games

Item 3 · late game

Mortal Reminder 24:18 · 10 of 38 games

Item 4 · late game

Infinity Edge 27:00 · 8 of 15 games

Runes

Stormraider's Surge · Sorcery + Inspiration 12% of games · 71% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Shield + Health Potion 62% of games · 54% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Ignite 58% of games · 46% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Judgment first 73% of games · 52% 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′60% wins17% of games · 10

Lasts 25′ or more49% wins68% of games · 41

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: 90% against 31%

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

First Baron 31% 90% +60

First tower 23% 80% +57

Rift Herald 33% 79% +46

First dragon 32% 72% +40

First Voidgrubs 35% 73% +38

First blood 39% 67% +27

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 control wards

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

More damage to towers11696 against 6918 · +69%

Fewer control wards a game0.23 against 0.64 · −64%

Fewer assists a game3.9 against 6.2 · −38%

Fewer multikills a game0.50 against 0.77 · −35%

Less damage a minute690 against 841 · −18%

About average: gold, solo kills.

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 ~12:30

Item 2done ~19:00

Item 3done ~23:48

Item 4done ~26:48

Most common full builds

Stridebreaker › Berserker's Greaves › Phantom Dancer › Mortal Reminder 60.0%5 games

Stridebreaker › Berserker's Greaves › Phantom Dancer › Mortal Reminder › Infinity Edge 75.0%4 games

Stridebreaker › Boots of Swiftness › Youmuu's Ghostblade › Dead Man's Plate 33.3%3 games

Stridebreaker › Boots of Swiftness › Youmuu's Ghostblade › Voltaic Cyclosword 100.0%3 games

Boots of Swiftness › Stridebreaker › Phantom Dancer › Sterak's Gage 100.0%3 games

Boots of Swiftness › Stridebreaker › Phantom Dancer › Lord Dominik's Regards › Infinity Edge 33.3%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

Youmuu's Ghostblade 40%5

Phantom Dancer 36%11

Mortal Reminder 20%5

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 Potion54.1%37

Doran's Helm + Health Potion53.8%13

Doran's Blade + Health Potion40.0%5

Boots

Boots of Swiftness ~12:0059.5%37

Berserker's Greaves ~7:3630.8%13

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite45.7%35

Flash + Ghost60.9%23

Flash + Teleport50.0%2

Skills

Max

W52.3%44

Max

W53.3%15

Start

W60.0%15

Start

Q53.8%13

Dies less than most mid laners

Before 14 minutes Garen dies 1.6 times a game (average 2.2). 42% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 49% for the average mid laner. 37% are fair 1-v-1s.

1.6deaths per game before 14′less than average (2.2)

42%involve the enemy junglerless than average (49%)

63%outnumbered (2+ enemies)less than average (66%)

64%with no teammate nearmore than 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

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of mid

Ganks: 29% in your half of mid. Collapses: 30% in your half of mid. 1-v-1s: 76% 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 42% (avg 49%)Collapse 20% (avg 18%)1-v-1 37% (avg 34%)

Who gets the kill

Garen Average

Bot laner 3% (avg 7%)Jungler 25% (avg 27%)Support 10% (avg 7%)Mid laner 57% (avg 54%)Top laner 5% (avg 5%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00, 6:00 and 8:00–10:00

Garen Peak Average mid laner

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Ward the river before 3:00, 6:00 and 8:00.

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

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your half of mid

Before 14 minutes: 2.4 kills per death in their half of mid against 0.2 in your half of mid. Overall 1.1 kills per death.

Your half of mid 0.2 K/D 10 / 46

Their half of mid 2.4 K/D 33 / 14

Their jungle 1.3 K/D 16 / 12

Your jungle 1.0 K/D 12 / 12

The bot-side river 2.4 K/D 12 / 5

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 25% of their team's dragon takes (average mid laner 29%). The team wins 71% when Garen is there and 78% when not.

Garen

What most Garen players run

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

First Baron: 90% against 31%

More damage to towers, fewer control wards

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 less than most mid laners

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of mid

What kills Garen

Ganks come at 3:00, 6:00 and 8:00–10:00

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your half of mid

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your half of bot lane

Where fights happen