This meta overview presents GAREN’s ranked performance across different roles and skill tiers. The data includes tier placement, win rate, pick rate, ban rate, and short-term trends, allowing you to evaluate her current strength and draft priority. Statistics are synced with rank buckets and role selection, helping you understand where GAREN performs best and how her impact changes in the evolving Wild Rift meta.
The information below will help you get familiar with the game on the Solo Baron Line GAREN. We have prepared a items builds, runes, summoner spells and ability order for a comfortable game. Situational options for replacing items and runes are also available to you.
Ruby Crystal. Next, you should pay attention to whether your mobility champion is enough, our further actions will depend on this. If it is hard for you to dodge the enemy's skills or you want to roam on neighboring lines, then it is better to buy
Boots of Speed at an early stage.
Ruby Crystal
+150 Max Health
500
Black Cleaver
Physical Damage reduces Armor
+400 Max Health
+40 Attack Damage
+20 Ability Haste
Sunder: Dealing physical damage to a champion reduces their Armor by 6% for 6 seconds, stacking 4 times for 24% reduction.
Rage: Gain 20 Movement Speed when you deal physical damage. When moving toward enemy champions with 4 Sunder stacks, gain 40 Move Speed. Ranged champions gain halved values.
3000
Black Cleaver TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who deal physical damage and need to fight tanky opponents. The "Sunder" effect reduces the enemy’s armor when dealing physical damage, making it effective at shredding through tanks with high resistance. The movement speed bonus, activated when dealing physical damage, helps maintain mobility on the battlefield. It's a great choice for fighters and junglers who can quickly apply multiple stacks of the item’s passive, reducing the enemy's armor and increasing the overall damage dealt.
Plated Steelcaps
Reduces Physical Damage
+150 Max Health
+50% Health Regen
+20 Armor
+45 Move Speed.
900
Plated Steelcaps TIPS: These boots are a go-to counter when the enemy relies on basic attacks and physical damage. They increase your armor and health regeneration while giving movement speed, helping you survive trades, dives and extended skirmishes versus AD-centric comps. Pick them when the enemy team has strong marksmen, sustained auto-attack threats or multiple AD bruisers who punish low armor.
Divine Sunderer
Anti-Health attacks
+425 Max Health
+25 Attack Damage
+25 Ability Haste
Spellblade: After using an ability, your next attack within 10 seconds deals (10% melee / 7% ranged) of target’s maximum health as bonus physical damage. If the target is a champion, heal for (6% melee / 2.5% ranged) of the target's maximum health. (1.5s Cooldown) Damage is reduced vs structure.
3400
Divine Sunderer TIPS: This item offers a strong blend of survivability and damage: after using an ability your next basic attack is empowered to deal bonus damage based on the target’s max health, and it heals you when used on enemy champions. Perfect for fighter-bruisiers and solo laners who weave abilities into autos and need sustain versus tanks and duelists.
Plated Steelcaps
Reduces Physical Damage
+150 Max Health
+50% Health Regen
+20 Armor
+45 Move Speed.
900
Plated Steelcaps TIPS: These boots are a go-to counter when the enemy relies on basic attacks and physical damage. They increase your armor and health regeneration while giving movement speed, helping you survive trades, dives and extended skirmishes versus AD-centric comps. Pick them when the enemy team has strong marksmen, sustained auto-attack threats or multiple AD bruisers who punish low armor.
Mercury's Treads
Reduces Magic Damage
+200 Max Health
+50% Health Regen
+20 Magic Resistance
+45 Move Speed.
900
Mercury's Treads TIPS: These boots are a core defensive choice when the enemy deals strong magic damage. They increase your magic resistance, boost health regeneration and movement speed, and help you stay in lane or fights longer against poke and burst mages. Pick them when you need greater survivability versus AP-heavy matchups or repeated spell damage.
Stoneplate Enchant
Shield
Stoneplate (Active): Gain a base shield that absorbs damage equal to 15% of max Health. Every 1 bonus Armor
or Magic Resistance
you have increases the shield by 0.1%, up to 35%. The shield decays over 4s. (60s Cooldown) For every enemy nearby, gain an additional shield that absorbs damage equal to 5% of max Health, capped at 3 enemies. Every 1 bonus Armor
or Magic Resistance
you have increases the shield by 0.1%, up to 12%. Damage dealt is reduced by 40% for 4s.
500
Stoneplate Enchant TIPS: This enchant grants a strong shield based on your max health, further boosted by your armor and magic resist. The shield grows stronger per nearby enemy and decays over time, reducing incoming damage. — Perfect for tank initiators who need reliable mitigation to withstand initial bursts and control teamfights.
Stridebreaker
Slows enemies nearby after a short dash
Breaking Shockwave (Active): Activate to dash a short distance, dealing 120% Attack Damage as Physical Damage to nearby enemies and slowing them by 30% for 3s (35s cooldown)
500
Stridebreaker TIPS: This enchant grants a dash that deals AOE physical damage and applies a 30% slow for 3 seconds, perfect for engaging or chasing down targets.
Black Cleaver (Physical Damage reduces Armor) as your first item, followed by
Plated Steelcaps (Reduces Physical Damage) or
Mercury's Treads (Reduces Magic Damage) depending on the situation. (sometimes it will still be better to build a boot as the first item, which significantly increases the mobility of your champion) the third key element in our build is
Divine Sunderer (Anti-Health attacks).
Stoneplate Enchant (Gain a Shield). You may want to replace it with
Stridebreaker (Slows enemies nearby after a short dash), it all depends on your playstyle and the situation on the battlefield.
Black Cleaver
Physical Damage reduces Armor
+400 Max Health
+40 Attack Damage
+20 Ability Haste
Sunder: Dealing physical damage to a champion reduces their Armor by 6% for 6 seconds, stacking 4 times for 24% reduction.
Rage: Gain 20 Movement Speed when you deal physical damage. When moving toward enemy champions with 4 Sunder stacks, gain 40 Move Speed. Ranged champions gain halved values.
3000
Black Cleaver TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who deal physical damage and need to fight tanky opponents. The "Sunder" effect reduces the enemy’s armor when dealing physical damage, making it effective at shredding through tanks with high resistance. The movement speed bonus, activated when dealing physical damage, helps maintain mobility on the battlefield. It's a great choice for fighters and junglers who can quickly apply multiple stacks of the item’s passive, reducing the enemy's armor and increasing the overall damage dealt.
Plated Steelcaps
Reduces Physical Damage
+150 Max Health
+50% Health Regen
+20 Armor
+45 Move Speed.
900
Plated Steelcaps TIPS: These boots are a go-to counter when the enemy relies on basic attacks and physical damage. They increase your armor and health regeneration while giving movement speed, helping you survive trades, dives and extended skirmishes versus AD-centric comps. Pick them when the enemy team has strong marksmen, sustained auto-attack threats or multiple AD bruisers who punish low armor.
Divine Sunderer
Anti-Health attacks
+425 Max Health
+25 Attack Damage
+25 Ability Haste
Spellblade: After using an ability, your next attack within 10 seconds deals (10% melee / 7% ranged) of target’s maximum health as bonus physical damage. If the target is a champion, heal for (6% melee / 2.5% ranged) of the target's maximum health. (1.5s Cooldown) Damage is reduced vs structure.
3400
Divine Sunderer TIPS: This item offers a strong blend of survivability and damage: after using an ability your next basic attack is empowered to deal bonus damage based on the target’s max health, and it heals you when used on enemy champions. Perfect for fighter-bruisiers and solo laners who weave abilities into autos and need sustain versus tanks and duelists.
Death's Dance
Delays damage taken
+35 Attack Damage
+40 Armor
+15 Ability Haste
Defy: Champion takedowns cleanse Cauterize's remaining damage pool and restores 8% of your maximum health over 2 seconds.
Cauterize: 27% of all physical damage and magic damage received (12% for ranged champions) is dealt to you over 3 seconds as true damage instead.
3100
Death's Dance TIPS: This item converts incoming damage into a delayed effect, letting you stay in fights longer and smooth out damage spikes. It boosts your survivability with armor and ability haste, and successful takedowns cleanse the delayed damage while instantly healing you. — Perfect for bruisers and tanks who need to absorb bursts of damage and then quickly recover to keep fighting.
Sterak's Gage
Taking damage triggers a shield
+400 Max Health
Heavy Handed: +50% base Attack Damage as bonus Attack Damage.
Lifeline: Damage that puts you under 35%
Health grants a shield that equal to 75% of your bonus health
that decays over 3 seconds (90s Cooldown).
Sterak's Fury: Triggering Lifeline increases size, empowers you, removes all crowd control effects on you (except Airborne), and grants 30% Tenacity for 4 seconds.
3200
Sterak's Gage TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need survivability in team fights, especially for tanks and fighters who take frontline positions. It provides bonuses to maximum health, attack damage, and helps increase your survivability. The "Lifeline" effect activates when your health drops below 35%, granting a shield that absorbs damage, helping you survive heavy hits. "Sterak's Fury" empowers you, increases your size, removes crowd control effects (except airborne), and grants 30% tenacity for 4 seconds, allowing you to survive and continue fighting through heavy crowd control and burst damage from enemies. This item is especially useful against champions with burst damage, such as Zed and Talon, and against champions with heavy CC, like Lissandra and Nautilus.
Amaranth's Twinguard
In-combat durability
+60 Armor
+60 Magic Resistance
Endurance: Gain 1 stacks of Endurance every 1 seconds while in combat with enemy champions (max 5 stacks). At maximum stacks, gain 20% size, 20% Tenacity, and increase Armor
by 30% and Magic Resistance
by 30% until out of combat with champion.
3100
Amaranth's Twinguard TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who spend a lot of time in the thick of fights and need extra durability and crowd control resistance. It provides bonuses to armor and magic resistance. The “Endurance” passive stacks up to five times during combat, and at full stacks you increase in size, gain enhanced tenacity, and receive bonus armor and magic resistance until you exit combat. This allows you to stay in the frontline longer and withstand enemy attacks more effectively. Due to its versatile utility, this item is one of the most popular defensive choices in the game and is used by the majority of tanks, fighters, and other classes.
Sterak's Gage
Taking damage triggers a shield
+400 Max Health
Heavy Handed: +50% base Attack Damage as bonus Attack Damage.
Lifeline: Damage that puts you under 35%
Health grants a shield that equal to 75% of your bonus health
that decays over 3 seconds (90s Cooldown).
Sterak's Fury: Triggering Lifeline increases size, empowers you, removes all crowd control effects on you (except Airborne), and grants 30% Tenacity for 4 seconds.
3200
Sterak's Gage TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need survivability in team fights, especially for tanks and fighters who take frontline positions. It provides bonuses to maximum health, attack damage, and helps increase your survivability. The "Lifeline" effect activates when your health drops below 35%, granting a shield that absorbs damage, helping you survive heavy hits. "Sterak's Fury" empowers you, increases your size, removes crowd control effects (except airborne), and grants 30% tenacity for 4 seconds, allowing you to survive and continue fighting through heavy crowd control and burst damage from enemies. This item is especially useful against champions with burst damage, such as Zed and Talon, and against champions with heavy CC, like Lissandra and Nautilus.
Dead Man's Plate
Increases Movement Speed
+350 Max Health
+70 Armor
Relentless:
+5% Move Speed.
Momentum: Moving builds Momentum, granting up to 40 Move Speed at 100 stacks. Attacking removes all Momentum. Stacks decay when movement is impaired.
Crushing Blow: Attacks deal up to 100 bonus magic damage based on Momentum removed. Melee attacks with max Momentum slows by 75% for 1 second.
2800
Dead Man's Plate TIPS: This item provides a substantial boost to health and armor, and its “Momentum” passive builds movement speed as you move—up to a cap—until you land an attack, which then triggers “Crushing Blow”, dealing bonus magic damage based on the momentum removed and slowing enemies at full stacks. This makes it an excellent choice for tanks and bruisers who need extra mobility to engage quickly and sustain through fights. Tips: ideal for champions who need to close distance and absorb damage; pairs extremely well with Spellblade items (e.g., Divine Sunderer) for additional burst damage on engage.
Dead Man's Plate — This item provides a substantial boost to health and armor, and its “Momentum” passive builds movement speed as you move—up to a cap—until you land an attack, which then triggers “Crushing Blow”, dealing bonus magic damage based on the momentum removed and slowing enemies at full stacks. This makes it an excellent choice for tanks and bruisers who need extra mobility to engage quickly and sustain through fights. Tips: ideal for champions who need to close distance and absorb damage; pairs extremely well with Spellblade items (e.g., Divine Sunderer) for additional burst damage on engage.
Sterak's Gage
Taking damage triggers a shield
+400 Max Health
Heavy Handed: +50% base Attack Damage as bonus Attack Damage.
Lifeline: Damage that puts you under 35%
Health grants a shield that equal to 75% of your bonus health
that decays over 3 seconds (90s Cooldown).
Sterak's Fury: Triggering Lifeline increases size, empowers you, removes all crowd control effects on you (except Airborne), and grants 30% Tenacity for 4 seconds.
3200
Sterak's Gage TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need survivability in team fights, especially for tanks and fighters who take frontline positions. It provides bonuses to maximum health, attack damage, and helps increase your survivability. The "Lifeline" effect activates when your health drops below 35%, granting a shield that absorbs damage, helping you survive heavy hits. "Sterak's Fury" empowers you, increases your size, removes crowd control effects (except airborne), and grants 30% tenacity for 4 seconds, allowing you to survive and continue fighting through heavy crowd control and burst damage from enemies. This item is especially useful against champions with burst damage, such as Zed and Talon, and against champions with heavy CC, like Lissandra and Nautilus.
Spear of Shojin
Gain damage bonuses
+450 Max Health
+40 Attack Damage
Dragonforce:
+20% Ability Haste.
Focused Will: Dealing damage to monsters or enemies with abilities increases your champion’s ability and passive damage by 3% for 6s. (Stacks 4 times).
3100
Spear of Shojin TIPS: This item provides a mix of survivability and empowered ability usage: it increases your staying power, reduces ability cooldowns, and temporarily boosts your ability and passive damage after engaging enemies or clearing monsters. Perfect for duelist bruisers who want to cast more often in fights and gain an edge in extended skirmishes or split-push scenarios. Suited for champions who weave autos with frequent ability casts.
Spear of Shojin — This item provides a mix of survivability and empowered ability usage: it increases your staying power, reduces ability cooldowns, and temporarily boosts your ability and passive damage after engaging enemies or clearing monsters. Perfect for duelist bruisers who want to cast more often in fights and gain an edge in extended skirmishes or split-push scenarios. Suited for champions who weave autos with frequent ability casts.
Sterak's Gage
Taking damage triggers a shield
+400 Max Health
Heavy Handed: +50% base Attack Damage as bonus Attack Damage.
Lifeline: Damage that puts you under 35%
Health grants a shield that equal to 75% of your bonus health
that decays over 3 seconds (90s Cooldown).
Sterak's Fury: Triggering Lifeline increases size, empowers you, removes all crowd control effects on you (except Airborne), and grants 30% Tenacity for 4 seconds.
3200
Sterak's Gage TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need survivability in team fights, especially for tanks and fighters who take frontline positions. It provides bonuses to maximum health, attack damage, and helps increase your survivability. The "Lifeline" effect activates when your health drops below 35%, granting a shield that absorbs damage, helping you survive heavy hits. "Sterak's Fury" empowers you, increases your size, removes crowd control effects (except airborne), and grants 30% tenacity for 4 seconds, allowing you to survive and continue fighting through heavy crowd control and burst damage from enemies. This item is especially useful against champions with burst damage, such as Zed and Talon, and against champions with heavy CC, like Lissandra and Nautilus.
Maw of Malmortius
Converts damage from attacks into a magic shield
+55 Attack Damage
+45 Magic Resistance
+10 Ability Haste
Lifeline: Upon taking Magic Damage that would reduce your Health to below 35%, gain
+10% Omni Vamp. until the end of combat and a magic shield that absorbs 220-530 Magic Damage for 3s. (90s Cooldown)
3000
Maw of Malmortius TIPS: This item provides a mix of damage, magic resistance and ability haste, but its core value is the anti-burst passive: when hit by a dangerous burst of magic damage, you instantly gain a strong protective shield and a temporary lifesteal/omnivamp effect that lasts through the fight. It lets you survive big AP detonations and re-enter skirmishes quickly. Best for assassins, bruisers and AD champions who need to survive enemy magic burst and power through fights.
Maw of Malmortius — This item provides a mix of damage, magic resistance and ability haste, but its core value is the anti-burst passive: when hit by a dangerous burst of magic damage, you instantly gain a strong protective shield and a temporary lifesteal/omnivamp effect that lasts through the fight. It lets you survive big AP detonations and re-enter skirmishes quickly. Best for assassins, bruisers and AD champions who need to survive enemy magic burst and power through fights.
Sterak's Gage
Taking damage triggers a shield
+400 Max Health
Heavy Handed: +50% base Attack Damage as bonus Attack Damage.
Lifeline: Damage that puts you under 35%
Health grants a shield that equal to 75% of your bonus health
that decays over 3 seconds (90s Cooldown).
Sterak's Fury: Triggering Lifeline increases size, empowers you, removes all crowd control effects on you (except Airborne), and grants 30% Tenacity for 4 seconds.
3200
Sterak's Gage TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need survivability in team fights, especially for tanks and fighters who take frontline positions. It provides bonuses to maximum health, attack damage, and helps increase your survivability. The "Lifeline" effect activates when your health drops below 35%, granting a shield that absorbs damage, helping you survive heavy hits. "Sterak's Fury" empowers you, increases your size, removes crowd control effects (except airborne), and grants 30% tenacity for 4 seconds, allowing you to survive and continue fighting through heavy crowd control and burst damage from enemies. This item is especially useful against champions with burst damage, such as Zed and Talon, and against champions with heavy CC, like Lissandra and Nautilus.
Unending Despair
Increases tanks' sustain in teamfights
+200 Max Health
+45 Armor
+45 Magic Resistance
Anguish: Every 4 second(s) while in combat with a champion, deal 3% of your max Health as magic damage to nearby champions and heal for 250% of the damage dealt. Anguish is unaffected by Item Ability Haste.
3000
Unending Despair TIPS: This item turns you into a self-sustaining frontline: while fighting you periodically deal magic damage around you and heal for a portion of that damage. Great for tanks and frontliners — it helps you soak focus, remain in the heart of fights longer, and excel in extended team engagements. Less effective in very short burst trades or on champions that avoid standing in the center of combat.
Unending Despair — This item turns you into a self-sustaining frontline: while fighting you periodically deal magic damage around you and heal for a portion of that damage. Great for tanks and frontliners — it helps you soak focus, remain in the heart of fights longer, and excel in extended team engagements. Less effective in very short burst trades or on champions that avoid standing in the center of combat.
Flash (Teleport a short distance) and
Ignite (Ignites target enemy champion, dealing true damageand applying Grievous Wounds for the duration. Grievous Wound reduces the effectiveness of Healing) as your Summoner Spells.
Flash
Teleport a short distance forward or towards the aimed direction.
Cooldown: 150s
Ignite
Ignites target enemy champion, dealing 72 true damage (72–380
) over 5 and applying 60% Grievous Wounds for the duration.
Grievous Wound reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
Cooldown: 100s
Conqueror (Gain stacks of AD or AP when hitting a champion with separate attacks or abilities. Stacks up to 6 times. When fully stacked, gain bonus Omnivamp (Adaptive).) as your keystone, followed by
Demolish (Automatically charges up when you are near turrets. Once fully charged, your next attack deals massive amounts of damage to turrets.),
Second Wind (Heals you after taking damage.) and
Overgrowth (Gains bonus scalable max Health.) in the primary tree, as well as
Axiom arcanist (Increases you ultimate ability's damage, heals and shields. Scoring a takedown on an enemy champion reduces your ultimate ability's remaining cooldown.) in the secondary tree. Below you can see possible options for replacing runes.
Conqueror
Stacking Damage, Vamp
Gain stacks of Adaptive Force when hitting a champion with separate attacks or abilities. Stacks up to 6 times. When fully stacked, gain bonus omnivamp.
Per stack: 3-7 bonus
or 4-11
for 6s.
Fully stacked bonus: Melee - 9%, Ranged - 5% bonus Omnivamp
.
Demolish
Destroy turrets faster
When within 550 range of an enemy turret, gain a charge every 0.5s, up to 6 times.
When fully charged, your next attack against the turret deals an additional (200 + 30% max Health
) physical damage.
Cooldown: 35s
Second Wind
Increase sustain
Gain 5 Health
every 5 seconds.
After taking damage from an enemy champion, regenerate 6 + (2% of your missing health)
over the next 5 seconds. This effect is doubled for melee champions.
Overgrowth
Increase max Health
For every 2 enemy minions or 1 monster(s) killed nearby, permanently gain 3 max Health. Max Health can be increased indefinitely this way. Gain an additional 3% max Health upon reaching 30 stacks.
Axiom Arcanist
Empowered Ultimate Ability
Your ultimate ability has 10% increased damage, healing, and shielding. (AoE damage is reduced to a 5% increase.)
Scoring a takedown on an enemy champion reduces your ultimate ability's remaining cooldown by 7%.
Demolish
Destroy turrets faster
When within 550 range of an enemy turret, gain a charge every 0.5s, up to 6 times.
When fully charged, your next attack against the turret deals an additional (200 + 30% max Health
) physical damage.
Cooldown: 35s
Unshakeable
Increase Armor, Magic Resist, and Slow Resist
Gain 4% Armor and Magic Resistance. For every 1 enemy champion(s) nearby, gain an additional 3% Armor and Magic Resistance. If the max number of enemy champions are nearby (max: 3), you also gain 20% Slow Resist.
Unshakeable — This rune makes you tougher in fights: it raises your armor and magic resist, and the bonus grows as more enemy champions are nearby. When you’re fully surrounded, you also gain enhanced slow resistance. A great pick for frontliners and anyone who spends time in the thick of combat — it helps you soak focus, hold ground, and initiate with more confidence.
Second Wind
Increase sustain
Gain 5 Health
every 5 seconds.
After taking damage from an enemy champion, regenerate 6 + (2% of your missing health)
over the next 5 seconds. This effect is doubled for melee champions.
Bone Plating
Anti-Burst Damage
When taking damage from a champion, the current and next 3 champion abilities or attacks against you and within 1.5s deal 30-60 (
) less damage.
Cooldown: 30s
Bone Plating — The rune reduces damage from enemy attacks and abilities when you take damage from an enemy champion. It lowers damage from the next few attacks or abilities for a short period, making it useful for most champions, including tanks, fighters, and even some mages. The rune helps improve survivability by mitigating damage in critical moments of the fight, making it suitable for heroes who find themselves in the heart of battles.
Overgrowth
Increase max Health
For every 2 enemy minions or 1 monster(s) killed nearby, permanently gain 3 max Health. Max Health can be increased indefinitely this way. Gain an additional 3% max Health upon reaching 30 stacks.
Perseverance
Increase survivability when crowd controlled
Gain 10% Tenacity. Gain 15-25 Armor and Magic Resistance (
) for 1.5 seconds when mmobilized. Refresh duration time when immobilized multiple times.
Perseverance — The rune increases your tenacity by 10%. When immobilized, it grants you bonus armor and magic resistance for a short period. The effect refreshes if you are immobilized multiple times, making the rune especially useful for champions who often find themselves under crowd control. It is ideal for tanks and fighters, enhancing their survivability in fights when they are subjected to multiple crowd control effects.
Axiom Arcanist
Empowered Ultimate Ability
Your ultimate ability has 10% increased damage, healing, and shielding. (AoE damage is reduced to a 5% increase.)
Scoring a takedown on an enemy champion reduces your ultimate ability's remaining cooldown by 7%.
Legend: Tenacity
Increase Tenacity and Slow Resist
Gains 3% Tenacity and 3% Slow Resist. Takedown monsters, enemy champions, or minions to gain up to an additional 15% Tenacity and 20% Slow Resist.
Legend: Tenacity — The rune increases your tenacity by 3% and slow resistance by 3%. By taking down monsters, enemy champions, or minions, you gain up to an additional 15% tenacity and 20% slow resistance. This rune is perfect for champions who often face crowd control in fights, such as fighters or tanks. It helps reduce the duration of crowd control effects, enhancing survivability in team fights.
(Q) DECISIVE STRIKE
9/8.5/8/7.5s
Breaks free from all slows, Briefly becoming immune to them for 0.5 seconds and gaining 35% of Movement Speed for 3 seconds.
The next attack within 2/2.5/3/3.5 seconds is empowered to deal 66 physical damage (40/80/120/160 + 40%
) and silence the target for 1.5 seconds.
(W) COURAGE
18/16/14/12s
Passive: Gains 10% bonus
Magic Resist and
Armor.
Active: Reduces incoming damage by 30% for 4 seconds. On cast, Garen gains 60% Tenacity for 1 second(s) and a shield that absorbs 65 damage (65/95/125/155 + 20% bonus
) for 2.5 seconds. The shield starts decaying after 1 second(s).
(E) JUDGMENT
9s
First cast: Rapidly spins his sword for 3 second(s), dealing 38 physical damage (15/19/23/27 + 35/40/45/50%
) 8 time(s) over the duration. Every 4 levels, the number of spins increases by 1, up to 11 strikes. Judgment can be recast by tapping the ability button 1 second(s) after the first cast.
Armor Shred: When a champion is hit by 6 strike(s), their Armor is shredded by 25% for 4.5 second(s). Every hit refreshes the effect duration. The target nearest to Garen takes 20% increased damage.
Re-cast: Ends Judgment early and reduces its cooldown by the duration remaining.
(R) DEMACIAN JUSTICE
70/65/60s
Calls forth the might of Demacia to execute an enemy champion, dealing true damage equal to 150/250/350 plus 15% (15/20/25% + 0.12% bonus
) of the target's missing health. Nearby enemies take true damage equal to 75/125/175 plus 7.5% (7.5/10/12.5% + 0.06% bonus
) of their missing health.
Deals a max 600 damage to epic monsters.
We have prepared lists of champions that can really annoy you during a match with the game on the Solo Baron GAREN. We have also prepared a list of champions with whom you will be comfortable being on the same team. These lists are relative and depend greatly on your level of play, the skills of your allies and opponents. Do not forget that each situation is individual!
We have prepared a list of items and spells that will help counter Solo Baron GAREN in a given situation. Buy items wisely, only if it is really necessary for a specific situation!
Plated Steelcaps
Reduces Physical Damage
+150 Max Health
+50% Health Regen
+20 Armor
+45 Move Speed.
900
Plated Steelcaps TIPS: These boots are a go-to counter when the enemy relies on basic attacks and physical damage. They increase your armor and health regeneration while giving movement speed, helping you survive trades, dives and extended skirmishes versus AD-centric comps. Pick them when the enemy team has strong marksmen, sustained auto-attack threats or multiple AD bruisers who punish low armor.
Guardian Angel
Revives at death
+40 Attack Damage
+40 Armor
Resurrect: Upon taking lethal damage, restores 50% Health and 30% Mana after 4 seconds of stasis. (210s Cooldown)
3400
Guardian Angel TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need a second chance in teamfights. It is especially effective against champions with high burst damage, such as Zed, Syndra, or Zoe, as well as against strong diving champions like Camille, Kha'Zix, or Lee Sin. The Resurrection effect allows you to return to the fight after taking lethal damage, restoring health and mana, giving you a chance to continue fighting and assist your team even in critical moments.
Randuin's Omen
Counters Critical Strike Damage
+400 Max Health
+75 Armor
Resilience: Critically Struck deal 20% less damage to you.
Countercurrent: Gain 1 stacks of Countercurrent when Critically Struck by physical damage. Each stuck grants 5% Movement Speed and 5% slow resist. Max 4 stacks.
2800
Randuin's Omen TIPS: This item is built to counter crit-heavy builds. It provides a large health pool and armor while reducing damage from critical strikes, making you much tougher in head-on engagements. When you are critically struck, you gain stacks that boost your movement and slow resistance, helping you hold position and control fight spacing. — Perfect for tanks and bruisers who need to stand up to high-crit auto-attackers and survive extended teamfights.
Thornmail
Reflects damage and reduces enemy healing
+200 Max Health
+75 Armor
Thorns: When struck by an attack, deal 20 + 6% bonus Armor
+ 2% bonus Health
magic damage to the attacker.
Entwine: Aply 50% Grievous Wounds to enemy champions for 3 second(s) when stuck by their attacks or dealing damge to them.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
2700
Thornmail TIPS: This item reflects a portion of incoming physical damage back to attackers as magic damage and applies an effect that reduces enemy healing effectiveness. A strong pick versus teams with heavy auto-attack damage and sustain — ideal for tanks and bruisers who need to absorb focus and cut down opponent healing.
Iceborn Gauntlet
Attacks create a slowing field
+250 Max Health
+50 Armor
+250 Max Mana
+30 Ability Haste
Spellblade: Using an ability causes your next attack within 10 seconds to deal bonus physical damage equal to (100% base AD
+ 25% Bonus Armor
) in an area and creates an icy field for 2 seconds that slows by 30%. Armor increases the size of the icy field. (1.5s Cooldown)
Damage is reduced vs structures.
3100
Iceborn Gauntlet TIPS: This item greatly boosts your health, armor, mana, and ability haste, making you much tankier. After casting an ability, your next attack in an area deals bonus physical damage and creates an icy field that slows enemies inside by 30%. The field’s size scales with your armor. This makes the item a great choice for champions who want to combine high survivability with crowd control and extra AOE damage.
Dead Man's Plate
Increases Movement Speed
+350 Max Health
+70 Armor
Relentless:
+5% Move Speed.
Momentum: Moving builds Momentum, granting up to 40 Move Speed at 100 stacks. Attacking removes all Momentum. Stacks decay when movement is impaired.
Crushing Blow: Attacks deal up to 100 bonus magic damage based on Momentum removed. Melee attacks with max Momentum slows by 75% for 1 second.
2800
Dead Man's Plate TIPS: This item provides a substantial boost to health and armor, and its “Momentum” passive builds movement speed as you move—up to a cap—until you land an attack, which then triggers “Crushing Blow”, dealing bonus magic damage based on the momentum removed and slowing enemies at full stacks. This makes it an excellent choice for tanks and bruisers who need extra mobility to engage quickly and sustain through fights. Tips: ideal for champions who need to close distance and absorb damage; pairs extremely well with Spellblade items (e.g., Divine Sunderer) for additional burst damage on engage.
Mortal Reminder
Armor Penetration (%) and reduced enemy healing
+25 Attack Damage
+25% Critical Rate
+15% Attack Speed
Last Whisper:
+30% Armor Penetration. Attacks that Critically Strike gain an additional
6% Armor Penetration.
Sepsis: Dealing physical damage to enemy champions applies 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
3300
Mortal Reminder TIPS: This item is perfect for auto‑attackers who need to shred through armor and cut down enemy healing. It boosts your penetration to deal more damage against tanky targets and applies grievous wounds on hit, reducing all healing and regen effects. — Ideal against tanks and high‑heal champions, and for marksmen and auto‑attack fighters who need to pierce defenses and curb enemy sustain.
Serylda’s Grudge
Armor Penetration (%) and apply slows
+40 Attack Damage
+15 Ability Haste
Last Whisper: Gain
+33% Armor Penetration.
Icy: Damaging active abilities and empowered attacks slow enemies by 30% for 1 second.
Frostbite: Apply Frostbite to enemies slowed by Icy for 6s. At 3 Frostbite stacks, all stacks are consumed to apply bleed, dealing (10 + 2-30 (
) + 40% bonus
) physical damage over 2s. Also applies 50% Grievous Wounds for 3s. (5s cooldown per target)
3300
Serylda’s Grudge TIPS: This item blends heavy armor penetration with crowd control: your active abilities and empowered hits slow targets, and repeated slows trigger a bleed that also applies grievous wounds. Perfect for champions who need to kite, execute priority targets, and curb their healing.
Terminus
Increases Armor Pen, Megic Pen, Armor, and Magic Resist
+40 Attack Damage
+30% Attack Speed
Shadow: Attacks deal 35 bonus magic damage on-hit.
Juxtaposition: Alternate between Light and Dark on-hits when attacking. Light attacks grant 5-8 Armor and Magic Resist
for 5 seconds on hit. Dark attacks grant
11% Armor Pen and
11% Magic Pen for 5 seconds on hit. Each on-hit effect stacks up to 3 times. While you have this item, bonus
Armor Pen and
Magic Pen granted by it is capped at 40%.
3300
Terminus TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who rely heavily on auto-attacks and can benefit from mixed penetration effects and stacking resistances. It provides bonuses to attack damage and attack speed, and adds bonus magic damage to your auto-attacks. The "Juxtaposition" effect alternates between Light and Dark on-hits, granting you bonuses to resistances or penetration depending on which effect is triggered. Light attacks grant armor and magic resist, while Dark attacks grant armor and magic penetration. This item is especially useful for champions who auto-attack frequently and can take advantage of the stacking resistances and penetration effects.
Soulstealer
Takedown increase Movement speed an reduce cooldowns
+150 Max Health
+65 Ability Power
+7% Magic Penetration
+20 Ability Haste
Soul Hunt:
+15% Magic Penetration.
Wandering Soul: Every time you take down an enemy champion within 3 seconds of damaging them, your ability cooldowns are reduced by 25%. You steal 10% of their base Movement Speed for 10 seconds and 50% of their Ability Haste until they respawn. Ability Haste stolen this way stacks.
3000
Soulstealer TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who frequently secure kills or assists and want to increase their mobility and ability uptime. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, magic penetration, and ability haste. The "Wandering Soul" effect reduces your ability cooldowns by 25% after taking down an enemy champion, and you steal 10% of their base movement speed and 50% of their ability haste until they respawn. The stolen ability haste stacks, making it especially useful for champions who are often involved in kills and want to improve their stats by taking down enemies.
Infinity Orb
Abilities deal bonus damage
+80 Ability Power
+7% Magic Penetration
Destiny:
+5% Move Speed.
Balanced:
+15 Magic Penetration.
Inevitable Demise: Abilities and empowered attacks Critically Strike for 20% bonus damage against enemies below 35% Health.
Thunderfall: When an enemy champion dies within 3 second(s) of you applying Inevitable Demise to them, a lightning bolt strikes at the spot where they died, dealing magic damage equal to 50-75 (
) plus 10%
to nearby enemies.
2900
Infinity Orb TIPS: This item is ideal for mages and assassins looking to boost execution damage and mobility. It grants magic penetration and adds critical strike damage against weakened targets, enabling reliable finishers. Following a kill under this effect, a lightning bolt strikes, damaging nearby enemies—perfect for cleaning up in teamfights.
Dominik’s Regards
Already equipped with percentage armor penetration and bonus damage, but lacks durability
+25 Attack Damage
+36% Armor Penetration
+25% Critical Rate
Giant Slayer: Deal bonus damage based on the target’s bonus Health. At 1500 bonus Health, the bonus damage is increased up to 15%.
3300
Dominik’s Regards TIPS: Is built to punish bulky foes. It converts a chunk of your offensive power into armor penetration and adds bonus damage that scales with the enemy’s extra health, making it a go-to pick when the enemy team stacks HP and armor. Because it focuses on penetration and damage rather than survivability, use it when you need to cut through tanky targets quickly while relying on positioning or teammates for protection.
Divine Sunderer
Anti-Health attacks
+425 Max Health
+25 Attack Damage
+25 Ability Haste
Spellblade: After using an ability, your next attack within 10 seconds deals (10% melee / 7% ranged) of target’s maximum health as bonus physical damage. If the target is a champion, heal for (6% melee / 2.5% ranged) of the target's maximum health. (1.5s Cooldown) Damage is reduced vs structure.
3400
Divine Sunderer TIPS: This item offers a strong blend of survivability and damage: after using an ability your next basic attack is empowered to deal bonus damage based on the target’s max health, and it heals you when used on enemy champions. Perfect for fighter-bruisiers and solo laners who weave abilities into autos and need sustain versus tanks and duelists.
Liandry's Torment
Abilities deal bonus damage
+250 Max Health
+75 Ability Power
+7% Magic Penetration
Torment: Damaging abilities or empowered attacks deal 0.6-3% (
) of the target's max Health as bonus magic damage over 3 seconds.
3000
Liandry's Torment TIPS: This item applies a sustained burning effect that deals extra magic damage scaling with the target’s max health — making it especially potent versus tanks and high-HP champions. The stacked torment periodically detonates for true damage to finish weakened foes. A strong pick for mages who want to prolong fights and slowly shred the enemy frontline.
Blade of the Ruined King
Attacks deal bonus damage
+25 Attack Damage
+35% Attack Speed
Thirst:
+10% Omni Vamp.
Ruined Strikes: Attacks deal bonus physical damage equal to 8.5%
of the enemy's current Health
on-hit. (Melee attacks deal 10%). Minion damage: 15. Max damage vs monsters: 60.
Drain: Hitting a champion with 3 attacks or abilities deals 30-100 bonus magic damage and steals 25% of their Move Speed
for 2 seconds. (60s Cooldown)
3000
Blade of the Ruined King TIPS: This item is a powerful tool for shredding enemy health and staying alive in extended fights. It grants attack power and attack speed, turning your basic hits into sustained damage that scales with the target’s current health — ideal against tanks and high-HP builds. Its active grants a strong slow and steals movement speed from the target, helping you chase or lock down priority targets. The lifesteal-like sustain it provides makes it a solid pick for champions who want to outlast opponents in prolonged exchanges.
Exhaust
Exhausts target enemy champion, reducing their Movement Speed by 35% and their damage dealt by 40% for 2.5 seconds.
Cooldown: 100s
Serylda’s Grudge
Armor Penetration (%) and apply slows
+40 Attack Damage
+15 Ability Haste
Last Whisper: Gain
+33% Armor Penetration.
Icy: Damaging active abilities and empowered attacks slow enemies by 30% for 1 second.
Frostbite: Apply Frostbite to enemies slowed by Icy for 6s. At 3 Frostbite stacks, all stacks are consumed to apply bleed, dealing (10 + 2-30 (
) + 40% bonus
) physical damage over 2s. Also applies 50% Grievous Wounds for 3s. (5s cooldown per target)
3300
Serylda’s Grudge TIPS: This item blends heavy armor penetration with crowd control: your active abilities and empowered hits slow targets, and repeated slows trigger a bleed that also applies grievous wounds. Perfect for champions who need to kite, execute priority targets, and curb their healing.
Rylai's Crystal Scepter
Abilities apply slows
+300 Max Health
+65 Ability Power
+7% Magic Penetration
Icy: Damaging active abilities and empowered attacks slow enemies by 30% for 0.75 second.
2700
Rylai's Crystal Scepter TIPS: This item is perfect for mages who deal damage with area-of-effect abilities and want to slow down enemies. It provides bonuses to health, ability power, and magic penetration, enhancing your abilities and increasing survivability. The "Icy" effect slows enemies by 30% for 1 second when dealing damage with active abilities or empowered attacks. This makes the item an excellent choice for champions with area-of-effect damage who can control the battlefield and slow enemies, such as Lissandra or Amumu.
Iceborn Gauntlet
Attacks create a slowing field
+250 Max Health
+50 Armor
+250 Max Mana
+30 Ability Haste
Spellblade: Using an ability causes your next attack within 10 seconds to deal bonus physical damage equal to (100% base AD
+ 25% Bonus Armor
) in an area and creates an icy field for 2 seconds that slows by 30%. Armor increases the size of the icy field. (1.5s Cooldown)
Damage is reduced vs structures.
3100
Iceborn Gauntlet TIPS: This item greatly boosts your health, armor, mana, and ability haste, making you much tankier. After casting an ability, your next attack in an area deals bonus physical damage and creates an icy field that slows enemies inside by 30%. The field’s size scales with your armor. This makes the item a great choice for champions who want to combine high survivability with crowd control and extra AOE damage.
Sterak's Gage
Taking damage triggers a shield
+400 Max Health
Heavy Handed: +50% base Attack Damage as bonus Attack Damage.
Lifeline: Damage that puts you under 35%
Health grants a shield that equal to 75% of your bonus health
that decays over 3 seconds (90s Cooldown).
Sterak's Fury: Triggering Lifeline increases size, empowers you, removes all crowd control effects on you (except Airborne), and grants 30% Tenacity for 4 seconds.
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Sterak's Gage TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need survivability in team fights, especially for tanks and fighters who take frontline positions. It provides bonuses to maximum health, attack damage, and helps increase your survivability. The "Lifeline" effect activates when your health drops below 35%, granting a shield that absorbs damage, helping you survive heavy hits. "Sterak's Fury" empowers you, increases your size, removes crowd control effects (except airborne), and grants 30% tenacity for 4 seconds, allowing you to survive and continue fighting through heavy crowd control and burst damage from enemies. This item is especially useful against champions with burst damage, such as Zed and Talon, and against champions with heavy CC, like Lissandra and Nautilus.
Maw of Malmortius
Converts damage from attacks into a magic shield
+55 Attack Damage
+45 Magic Resistance
+10 Ability Haste
Lifeline: Upon taking Magic Damage that would reduce your Health to below 35%, gain
+10% Omni Vamp. until the end of combat and a magic shield that absorbs 220-530 Magic Damage for 3s. (90s Cooldown)
3000
Maw of Malmortius TIPS: This item provides a mix of damage, magic resistance and ability haste, but its core value is the anti-burst passive: when hit by a dangerous burst of magic damage, you instantly gain a strong protective shield and a temporary lifesteal/omnivamp effect that lasts through the fight. It lets you survive big AP detonations and re-enter skirmishes quickly. Best for assassins, bruisers and AD champions who need to survive enemy magic burst and power through fights.
Immortal Shieldbow
Gain a Shield and Physical Vamp when health is low
+40 Attack Damage
+25% Critical Rate
+15% Attack Speed
+5% Physical Vamp
Lifeline: Damage that puts you under 35%
Health preemptively grants a shield that absorbs 250-550 damage (
) for 5 seconds. (90s Cooldown).
Buttle Furor: Triggering Lifeline grants
+8% Physical Vamp for 8 seconds.
3000
Immortal Shieldbow TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need a lot of sustain in fights. It provides bonuses to attack damage, critical strike chance, attack speed, and physical vamp, helping you sustain and deal damage. The "Lifeline" effect activates when your health drops below 35%, granting a shield that absorbs damage for 5 seconds, giving you a chance to survive dangerous moments in a fight. "Buttle Furor" adds physical vamp when the shield is triggered, enhancing your sustain. This item is especially useful for champions who rely on high AD, such as Draven and Jhin, and when facing champions who deal a lot of physical damage, such as Master Yi, and Tryndamere.
Locket Enchant
Area of effect magic shield
Locket (Active): Grants a shield to yourself and nearby allied champions that each absorbs 60-330 damage for 2.5 seconds. (60s cooldown)
This effect is reduced by 50% if the target has been affected by another Locket in the last 20 seconds.
500
Locket Enchant TIPS: This enchant grants a magic shield to you and nearby allies, absorbing damage for a brief duration. The shield is ideal in large teamfights, providing extra protection and opportunities for counterplay. Perfect for tanks who frequently stand in the thick of battle and want to safeguard their team during critical moments.
Stoneplate Enchant
Shield
Stoneplate (Active): Gain a base shield that absorbs damage equal to 15% of max Health. Every 1 bonus Armor
or Magic Resistance
you have increases the shield by 0.1%, up to 35%. The shield decays over 4s. (60s Cooldown) For every enemy nearby, gain an additional shield that absorbs damage equal to 5% of max Health, capped at 3 enemies. Every 1 bonus Armor
or Magic Resistance
you have increases the shield by 0.1%, up to 12%. Damage dealt is reduced by 40% for 4s.
500
Stoneplate Enchant TIPS: This enchant grants a strong shield based on your max health, further boosted by your armor and magic resist. The shield grows stronger per nearby enemy and decays over time, reducing incoming damage. — Perfect for tank initiators who need reliable mitigation to withstand initial bursts and control teamfights.
PERSEVERANCE
DECISIVE STRIKE
COURAGE
JUDGMENT
DEMACIAN JUSTICE

9/8.5/8/7.5s
Breaks free from all slows, Briefly becoming immune to them for 0.5 seconds and gaining 35% of Movement Speed for 3 seconds.
The next attack within 2/2.5/3/3.5 seconds is empowered to deal 66 physical damage (40/80/120/160 + 40%
) and silence the target for 1.5 seconds.

18/16/14/12s
Passive: Gains 10% bonus
Magic Resist and
Armor.
Active: Reduces incoming damage by 30% for 4 seconds. On cast, Garen gains 60% Tenacity for 1 second(s) and a shield that absorbs 65 damage (65/95/125/155 + 20% bonus
) for 2.5 seconds. The shield starts decaying after 1 second(s).

9s
First cast: Rapidly spins his sword for 3 second(s), dealing 38 physical damage (15/19/23/27 + 35/40/45/50%
) 8 time(s) over the duration. Every 4 levels, the number of spins increases by 1, up to 11 strikes. Judgment can be recast by tapping the ability button 1 second(s) after the first cast.
Armor Shred: When a champion is hit by 6 strike(s), their Armor is shredded by 25% for 4.5 second(s). Every hit refreshes the effect duration. The target nearest to Garen takes 20% increased damage.
Re-cast: Ends Judgment early and reduces its cooldown by the duration remaining.

70/65/60s
Calls forth the might of Demacia to execute an enemy champion, dealing true damage equal to 150/250/350 plus 15% (15/20/25% + 0.12% bonus
) of the target's missing health. Nearby enemies take true damage equal to 75/125/175 plus 7.5% (7.5/10/12.5% + 0.06% bonus
) of their missing health.
Deals a max 600 damage to epic monsters.
Use this combo to assassinate a priority target and disengage safely.
Use (Q) DECISIVE STRIKE to boost your
Movement Speed while approaching the enemy, ideally from a brush. Follow up with AA and (E) JUDGMENT once in range. Use (R) DEMACIAN JUSTICE to execute the target when they are low enough. FLASH away during (R) to shorten cast time and disengage.