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 Axiom Arcanist and Celerity 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 Mortal Reminder, Dead Man's Plate and finish with Infinity Edge. For the skill order, you want to stick with E - Q - W. Right now, this build has 52.1% winrate over 17 533 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, Axiom Arcanist, Celerity and Gathering Storm in the primary tree, and Overgrowth with Second Wind 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 Boots of Swiftness 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 Force of Nature. The skill order for this build is E - Q - W. In the current patch, this build has a 51.6% win rate over 13 060 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, Demolish, Second Wind and Overgrowth in the primary tree, and Axiom Arcanist with Celerity 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 Mortal Reminder, Infinity Edge and Dead Man's Plate. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - E - W. This build is currently sitting at a 51.4% win rate across 331 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.