Garen·Top Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Garen Top build, you should take Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Conqueror as your keystone, followed by Triumph, Legend: Haste and Last Stand in the primary tree, as well as Conditioning and Overgrowth in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Stridebreaker as your first item, followed by Berserker's Greaves and Phantom Dancer. For your last 3 items, you should build Dead Man's Plate, Infinity Edge and finish with Sterak's Gage. For the skill order, you want to stick with E - Q - W. Right now, this build has 55.0% winrate over 32 912 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Garen Top build would be to take Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Phase Rush as your keystone, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity and Gathering Storm in the primary tree, and Conditioning with Overgrowth in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Stridebreaker, which you should build first, followed by Berserker's Greaves as your second item and Phantom Dancer as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Mortal Reminder, Dead Man's Plate and Sterak's Gage. The skill order for this build is E - Q - W. In the current patch, this build has a 55.0% win rate over 19 642 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Conqueror as your keystone, Triumph, Legend: Haste and Last Stand in the primary tree, and Celerity with Nimbus Cloak in the secondary tree, as well as Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Trinity Force as your first item, then Berserker's Greaves as a second item and Phantom Dancer as a third item. You want to finish the build with Dead Man's Plate, Infinity Edge and Sterak's Gage. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it E - Q - W. This build is currently sitting at a 54.2% win rate across 1 151 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Garen Top build in the current patch, try Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Haste and Last Stand as your primary rune tree, and Conditioning with Overgrowth as your secondary tree. Use Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Black Cleaver as your first item, then finish Berserker's Greaves as your second item, and Stridebreaker as third item. The last 3 options are Phantom Dancer, Dead Man's Plate and Zephyr. The ability order for this build is E - Q - W. As of the current patch, this build has a 49.5% win rate over 315 matches played.

Situational Garen Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Garen build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.