Wild Rift: GAREN Build Guide (7.1С)

GAREN Wild Rift
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League of Legends: Wild Rift GAREN, role - Fighter / Tank. Use the guidelines to take your GAREN Wild Rift champion play style to the next level. Study in detail the build of items, runes, spells, skills that need to be developed in the first place. In order to find out what position GAREN is in the rating table, go to the - Tier List page.

attackdamage 64 (5.5)
heal 660 (128)
healthregeneration 8 (0.57)
attackspeed 0.8 (0.02)
mana 0 (0)
mpreg 0 (0)
movementspeed 350 (0)
armor 52 (5.8)
magicresistance 38 (2.64)
criticalstrike 175 (0)


PERSEVERANCE
P

(PASSIVE) PERSEVERANCE

If Garen has not been struck by damage or enemy abilities within the last 5 seconds, he regenerates 1.3% missing Health per second (1% +0,3 perlevel).

DECISIVE STRIKE
Q

(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% attackdamage) and silence the target for 1.5 seconds.

COURAGE
W

(W) COURAGE

18/16/14/12s

Passive: Gains 10% bonus magicresistance Magic Resist and armor 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 heal) for 2.5 seconds. The shield starts decaying after 1 second(s).

JUDGMENT
E

(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% attackdamage ) 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.

JUDGMENTArmor 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.

JUDGMENTRe-cast: Ends Judgment early and reduces its cooldown by the duration remaining.

DEMACIAN JUSTICE
R

(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 attackdamage) 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 attackdamage) of their missing health.

Deals a max 600 damage to epic monsters.

GAREN Meta Overview — Ranks & Performance Analytics

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.

Updated: 23 APR 2026 UTC 00:00
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Solo Baron GAREN Build items and runes

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.

Key items

TIPS: Start your build with Ruby Crystal 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 Boots of Speed at an early stage.
Start
Wild Rift Items: Ruby Crystal
Ruby Crystal

Ruby Crystal

+150 Max Health

500

Core
Wild Rift Items: Black Cleaver
Black Cleaver

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.

Wild Rift Items: Plated Steelcaps
Plated Steelcaps

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.

Wild Rift Items: Divine Sunderer
Divine Sunderer

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.

Boots/Enchant
Wild Rift Items: Plated Steelcaps
Plated Steelcaps

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.

Wild Rift Items: Mercury's Treads
Mercury's Treads

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.

Wild Rift Items: Stoneplate Enchant
Stoneplate Enchant

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.

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Wild Rift Items: Stridebreaker
Stridebreaker

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.

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TIPS: Finally, for your items, you should build Black Cleaver Black Cleaver (Physical Damage reduces Armor) as your first item, followed by Plated Steelcaps Plated Steelcaps (Reduces Physical Damage) or Mercury's Treads 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 Divine Sunderer (Anti-Health attacks).

Maybe now it's time to think about upgrading your boot, invest in Stoneplate Enchant Stoneplate Enchant (Gain a Shield). You may want to replace it with Stridebreaker Stridebreaker (Slows enemies nearby after a short dash), it all depends on your playstyle and the situation on the battlefield.

The remaining last three items are situational, of course you can use the example builds above. But for a more effective game you will need to pay attention to the situation on the battlefield.
Example build
Wild Rift Items: Black Cleaver
Black Cleaver

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.

Wild Rift Items: Plated Steelcaps
Plated Steelcaps

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.

Wild Rift Items: Divine Sunderer
Divine Sunderer

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.

Wild Rift Items: Death's Dance
Death's Dance

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.

Wild Rift Items: Sterak's Gage
Sterak's Gage

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.

Wild Rift Items: Amaranth's Twinguard
Amaranth's Twinguard

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.

Situational items

Buy items that will effectively counter your opponents, help you and your allies. Use this section to find out which items will be useful to you in a particular situation.
Сhange
Wild Rift Items: Dead Man's Plate
Wild Rift Items: Spear of Shojin
Wild Rift Items: Maw of Malmortius
Wild Rift: Unending Despair
Increases Movement Speed
Wild Rift Items: Sterak's Gage
Sterak's Gage

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.

Wild Rift Items: Dead Man's Plate
Dead Man's Plate

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 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.
Gain damage bonuses
Wild Rift Items: Sterak's Gage
Sterak's Gage

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.

Wild Rift Items: Spear of Shojin
Spear of Shojin

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 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.
Converts damage from attacks into a magic shield
Wild Rift Items: Sterak's Gage
Sterak's Gage

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.

Wild Rift Items: Maw of Malmortius
Maw of Malmortius

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 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.
Increases tanks' sustain in teamfights
Wild Rift Items: Sterak's Gage
Sterak's Gage

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.

Wild Rift: Unending Despair
Unending Despair

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 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.

Summoner Spells

If you want to use this GAREN Solo Baron build, you should take Flash Flash (Teleport a short distance) and Ignite 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 Wild Rift
Flash

Flash

Teleport a short distance forward or towards the aimed direction.

Cooldown: 150s

Ignite Wild Rift
Ignite

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

Runes BUILD

For runes, you should pick Conqueror 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 Demolish (Automatically charges up when you are near turrets. Once fully charged, your next attack deals massive amounts of damage to turrets.), Second Wind Second Wind (Heals you after taking damage.) and Overgrowth Overgrowth (Gains bonus scalable max Health.) in the primary tree, as well as Axiom arcanist 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.
Wild Rift Keystone Runes: Conqueror

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 .

Conqueror
Stacking Damage, Vamp
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).
Wild Rift Resolve Runes: Demolish

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

Demolish
Destroy turrets faster
Automatically charges up when you are near turrets. Once fully charged, your next attack deals massive amounts of damage to turrets.
Wild Rift Resolve Runes: Second Wind

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.

Second Wind
Increase sustain
Heals you after taking damage.
Wild Rift Resolve Runes: Overgrowth

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.

Overgrowth
Increase max Health
Gains bonus scalable max Health.
Wild Rift Inspiration Runes: Axiom arcanist

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%.

Axiom arcanist
Empowered Ultimate Ability
Increases you ultimate ability's damage, heals and shields. Scoring a takedown on an enemy champion reduces your ultimate ability's remaining cooldown.

Situational Runes

Сhange
Unshakeable
Bone Plating
Perseverance
Legend: Tenacity
Increase Armor, Magic Resist, and Slow Resist
Demolish
Demolish

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
Unshakeable

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 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.
Anti-Burst Damage
Second Wind
Second Wind

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
Bone Plating

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 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.
Increase survivability when crowd controlled
Overgrowth
Overgrowth

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
Perseverance

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 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.
Increase Tenacity and Slow Resist
Axiom arcanist
Axiom arcanist

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
Legend: Tenacity

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 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.

Skills Order

For the skill order, you want to stick with (E) (Q) (W). You can learn more about abilities order at all levels by studying the diagram below.
DECISIVE STRIKE

(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% attackdamage) and silence the target for 1.5 seconds.

(Q) DECISIVE STRIKE
















COURAGE

(W) COURAGE

18/16/14/12s

Passive: Gains 10% bonus magicresistance Magic Resist and armor 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 heal) for 2.5 seconds. The shield starts decaying after 1 second(s).

(W) COURAGE
















JUDGMENT

(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% attackdamage ) 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.

JUDGMENTArmor 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.

JUDGMENTRe-cast: Ends Judgment early and reduces its cooldown by the duration remaining.

(E) JUDGMENT
















DEMACIAN JUSTICE

(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 attackdamage) 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 attackdamage) of their missing health.

Deals a max 600 damage to epic monsters.

(R) DEMACIAN JUSTICE
















Solo Baron GAREN Counters

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!

GAREN Wild Rift

Threats

Extreme
[4]
Major
[12]
Even
[14]
Minor
[7]

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Synergies

Ideal
[4]
Strong
[10]
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[10]
Low
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Solo Baron GAREN Counter Items

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!

Armor

Items that reduce Auto Attacks (AA) / Physical Damage.
Wild Rift Items: Plated Steelcaps
Plated Steelcaps

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.

Wild Rift Items: Guardian Angel
Guardian Angel

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.

Wild Rift Items: Randuin's Omen
Randuin's Omen

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.

Wild Rift Items: Thornmail
Thornmail

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.

Wild Rift Items: Iceborn Gauntlet
Iceborn Gauntlet

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.

Wild Rift Items: Dead Man's Plate
Dead Man's Plate

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.

Penetration

Items with a high indicator Armor Penetration and Magic Penetration neutralize GAREN's some of the armor and magic resistance.
Wild Rift Items: Mortal Reminder
Mortal Reminder

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.

Wild Rift Items: Serylda’s Grudge
Serylda’s Grudge

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.

Wild Rift Items: Terminus
Terminus

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.

Wild Rift Items: Soulstealer
Soulstealer

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.

Wild Rift Items: Infinity Orb
Infinity Orb

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.

Wild Rift Items: Dominik’s Regards
Dominik’s Regards

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.

% Health Damage

Items that can help to deal with high Health points tanks.
Wild Rift Items: Divine Sunderer
Divine Sunderer

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.

Wild Rift Items: Liandry's Torment
Liandry's Torment

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.

Wild Rift Items: Blade of the Ruined King
Blade of the Ruined King

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.

Reduces Mobility

Items that can decrease GAREN mobility.
Exhaust Wild Rift
Exhaust

Exhaust

Exhausts target enemy champion, reducing their Movement Speed by 35% and their damage dealt by 40% for 2.5 seconds.

Cooldown: 100s

Wild Rift Items: Serylda’s Grudge
Serylda’s Grudge

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.

Wild Rift Items: Rylai's Crystal Scepter
Rylai's Crystal Scepter

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.

Wild Rift Items: Iceborn Gauntlet
Iceborn Gauntlet

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.

Gain a Shield

Gives you a shield that increases your chances of survival against GAREN.
Wild Rift Items: Sterak's Gage
Sterak's Gage

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.

Wild Rift Items: Maw of Malmortius
Maw of Malmortius

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.

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Immortal Shieldbow

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.

Wild Rift Items: Locket Enchant
Locket Enchant

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.

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Wild Rift Items: Stoneplate Enchant
Stoneplate Enchant

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.

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Wild Rift GAREN Ability and Tips

PERSEVERANCEPERSEVERANCE
P
DECISIVE STRIKEDECISIVE STRIKE
Q
COURAGECOURAGE
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JUDGMENTJUDGMENT
E
DEMACIAN JUSTICEDEMACIAN JUSTICE
R

(PASSIVE) PERSEVERANCE

PERSEVERANCE

If Garen has not been struck by damage or enemy abilities within the last 5 seconds, he regenerates 1.3% missing Health per second (1% +0,3 perlevel).

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(Q) DECISIVE STRIKE

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% attackdamage) and silence the target for 1.5 seconds.

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(W) COURAGE

COURAGE

18/16/14/12s

Passive: Gains 10% bonus magicresistance Magic Resist and armor 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 heal) for 2.5 seconds. The shield starts decaying after 1 second(s).

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(E) JUDGMENT

JUDGMENT

9s

First cast: Rapidly spins his sword for 3 second(s), dealing 38 physical damage (15/19/23/27 + 35/40/45/50% attackdamage ) 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.

JUDGMENTArmor 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.

JUDGMENTRe-cast: Ends Judgment early and reduces its cooldown by the duration remaining.

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(R) DEMACIAN JUSTICE

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 attackdamage) 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 attackdamage) of their missing health.

Deals a max 600 damage to epic monsters.

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Wild Rift GAREN Skills Combo

🥇HARD 🥈MEDIUM 🥉EASY

Garen Assassination Fade Away

Execution

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F

Use this combo to assassinate a priority target and disengage safely.

Use (Q) DECISIVE STRIKE to boost your movementspeed 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.

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GAREN Change history

 REWORKED 29 MAY 2025 (PATCH 6.1B)

(W) COURAGE
[REMOVED] Casting Courage grants Garen up to 70% damage reduction within 1s.
[New] Passive: Gains 10% bonus armor and magic resistance.
[New] Active: Grants a shield that decays over 2.5 seconds, absorbing 65 / 95 / 125 / 155 (+20% bonus Health) damage.

(E) JUDGMENT
[REMOVED] Enemies hit by the edge of the blade storm take critical damage.
[New] The number of spins increases with champion level, up to a maximum of 11 spins.
[New] Ending Judgment early reduces its cooldown.
[New] After hitting an enemy champion 6 times, Judgment applies 25% Armor Shred for 4.5 seconds.
[New] Deals 20% increased damage to the nearest enemy.
BUFFED 30 APR 2025 (PATCH 6.1A)

(E) JUDGMENT
Base damage per on-hit: 12/16/20/24 → 15/19/23/27.
 ADJUSTED 09 JAN 2025 (PATCH 6.0)

BASE STATS
Base Health: 630 → 660.
Health per level: 125 → 128.
Base Armor: 45 → 52.
 ADJUSTED 18 JUL 2024 (PATCH 5.2)

BASE STATS
Base Health: 650 → 630.

(PASSIVE) PERSEVERANCE
Health Regen: (2% + 0.2% per level) missing Health → (1% + 0.3%* per level) missing Health.

(Q) DECISIVE STRIKE
Cooldown: 8s at all Levels → 9/8.5/8/7.5s.
Duration: 3s at all Levels → 2/2.5/3/3.5s.

(W) COURAGE
Damage reduction in the first second: 80% → 70%.
BUFFED 16 MAY 2024 (PATCH 5.1B)

(PASSIVE) PERSEVERANCE
Health regeneration: (1+ champion level × 0.2)% lost health → (2 + champion level × 0.2) % lost health.

(W) COURAGE
Duration of damage reduction: 2/3/4/5s → 4s at all levels.
Damage reduction at the 1st second: 70% → 80%.

(E) JUDGMENT
Damage: 12/16/20/24 + 30/35/40/45% AD → 12/16/20/24 + 35/40/45/50% AD.
BUFFED 01 FEB 2024 (PATCH 5.0A)

(Q) DECISIVE STRIKE
Damage: 30/70/110/150 + 40% Attack Damage → 40/80/120/160 + 40% Attack Damage.

(E) JUDGMENT
Damage per on-hit: 11/14/17/20 + 30%/35%/40%/45% Attack Damage → 12/16/20/24 + 30%/35%/40%/45% Attack Damage.
 ADJUSTED 04 JAN 2024 (PATCH 4.4D)

(R) DEMACIAN JUSTICE
When casting Demacian Justice and the target dies, moves out of range, becomes untargetable, or activates Zhonya’s Hourglass or Guardian Angel, the mana cost will be refunded and go on a 5s Cooldown.
 ADJUSTED 25 MAY 2023 (PATCH 4.2)

BASE STATS
Base movement speed +10.
Crit damage rate:200% → 175%.
BUFFED 16 MAR 2023 (PATCH 4.1)

(Q) DECISIVE STRIKE
Movement speed: 30% → 35%.

(W) COURAGE
First second damage reduction: 60% → 70%.
BUFFED 14 DEC 2022 (PATCH 3.5B)

(E) JUDGMENT
Base damage: 9/12/15/18 → 11/14/17/20.
Total base damage for all ticks: 72/96/120/144 → 88/112/136/160.
Outer edge critical multiplier: 125/130/135/140% → 135/140/145/150%.
 ADJUSTED 23 MAR 2022 (PATCH 3.1)

(E) JUDGMENT
Base damage: 11/14/17/20 → 9/12/15/18.
Total base damage for all ticks: 88/112/136/160 → 72/96/120/144.

(R) DEMACIAN JUSTICE
Base damage: 150/275/400 → 150/250/350.
Non-primary target damage: 75/137.5/200 → 75/125/175.
Bonus AD ratio: 0.08% of target’s missing health → 0.12% of target’s missing health.
Non-primary target damage bonus AD ratio: 0.04% of their missing heath → 0.06% of their missing health.
 ADJUSTED 30 JUN 2021 (PATCH 2.3B)

(E) JUDGMENT
Base damage: 15/20/25/30 → 11/14/17/20.
AD ratio: 0,25/0,3/0,35/0,4 → 0,3/0,35/0,4/0,45.

(R) DEMACIAN JUSTICE
Base damage: 150/300/450 → 150/275/400.
Missing health percentage damage: 20/25/30% → 15/20/25% +8% per 100 bonus AD.
Max damage towards epic monsters: 600/600/600.
NERFED 02 JUN 2021 (PATCH 2.3)

BASE STATS
Health Growth: 135 → 125.
Armor Growth: 6,4 → 5,8.

(R) DEMACIAN JUSTICE
Cooldown: 65/60/55s → 80/70/60s.
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  1. Bary
    +5
    Bary Poro 23 Jan 2024
    Hi can you suggest some special build too ?