Talk:Garen/@comment-25956640-20150103012329/@comment-15244341-20150113182229

Then late game comes, and Garen is useless because everyone kites him really hard. Most elos it doesn't matter, but when it comes to higher (Plat and Diamond, mostly) people just realize that if they play passive and farm they will outscale Garen pretty hard and it becomes really hard to do much to good top laners. Plus people tend to play strong meta picks that actually destroy Garen (Gnar, Mao, Liss...) anyway.

What you do, as any early game top laner (not just Garen), very much depends on your team and choice of summoners. If you have TP you should probably splitpush until you see a chance for a TP gank and then try to take either towers or dragon or any sort of buff. If you have ignite and your team is doing sort of okay just push like a madman and try to draw two or three people top. Then your team can just out-pressure the rest of the map. If you have ignite and they are feeding but not too hard, just group with them and try to beeline for the most fed guy in the oposing team. If you are decently tanky this means that you'll probably absorb most of the aggression and maybe get your objective low enough for someone to get an easy shutdown. If the enemy team is fed ad hell, you have ignite and they have much better teamfight than you do... Well. Last ditch is always splitpushing.

Also, Garen can't do much for the carry if the guys going for him are bruisers. He can silence assassins which is fine, but he can't really provide actual peel from someone like Irelia. You are probably better off trying to get one carry (usually a mid laner) to waste stuff on you while you slowly kill them.

Also, objectives like towers, Dragon and Baron are always the ideal thing to look for, so abuse you are ahead and try to zone the enemy team from then while your guys take it.