Talk:Garen the Night of Demacia/@comment-973379-20120125180248/@comment-216.58.9.28-20120128041749

If you run from every fight, your team is just going to get outnumbered at some point, even if you get two stacks of SotO every (probably losing) fight.

Garen's also a bad initiator against anything with a ranged slow/snare/stun. If your enemies have that, succeeding in getting close to them is a crapshoot, and Garen will hardly be able to guaranteed to get 10 SotO stacks.

There's also the simple problem of enemies playing carefully once they noticed you have Sword of the Occult. If you don't kill them, you can't get stacks. No matter how hard you farm them, all long as the enemy keeps that up reasonably, you'll still be behind by 800 gold.