Talk:Garen the Night of Demacia/@comment-190.177.213.87-20111213015549/@comment-99.234.144.143-20111213030601

Issues with being ganked is likel largey to do with your map awareness. Keep a close eye on the minimap, the chat bar if your allies say "*area/champion* mia (missing in action)" and always avoid being far past the river if you don't see all five enemies on the minimap. If you're low on health, and some of the other lanes are missing, it's probably best to just walk back a bit even from the closest turret before pressing B since the missing player might realize you'll be waiting at your turret to teleport. If you're ever not sure where the enemy might be and walking past the river, you're kinda overextending.

As you get more experienced, you'll be able to notice and find situations where you can be a bit more reckless, but this is a good guideline for the meantime.

As well, Garen has significant counters in many ranged champions in skilled hands. They'll be able to turn off his passive unless you stick to the brush and thus lose last hits, use an escape ability or slow him if he charges to them, and farm from a distance to stop you from zoning them out easily. Against such opponents, Garen is simply not the right champion choice.

Could you elaborate on "being ganked like hell", if you aren't overextending? Perhaps I can add a bit more to help that, but I don't quite know what you mean.