Talk:Garen/@comment-5557556-20150721214029/@comment-24648781-20150725114211

It seems to me what you´re lacking is map awareness for other lanes. TP on top lane is almost mandatory nowadays anyways - so you should get some deep wards into the enemy jungle (if you push through to their base, that´s not hard to do anyways) and then look out for your teammates more. Also, once you got tier 2 down, don´t stay on top lane. Roam hard, be an annoyance everywhere else. If the enemy top laner then pushes and takes your tier 1, so be it, but that means he´s busy on top and you can make plays with your team in a 4v5 situation for your benefit.

(Also, get early wards to prevent your 2-3 deaths early. At least one ward each back with placement in the river (not in the brush, the river itself, just where the tribush exit is) gives you ample warning when ganks are coming to get out safe.)

Also, why do you only get 20% CDR? Assuming you got the CDR masteries and a Black Cleaver, that would push you to 25% already - with either a spirit visage for defense or a brutalizer for offense, you get 35% out of it and put your q on a strong 5 second cooldown. Which means you can trigger the movement speed increase almost as soon as its run out.