Talk:Garen/@comment-5494818-20140420120121/@comment-4542190-20140427205259

Darius may have an advantage early, but when Garen gains some levels on Spin to Win, he'll do just that. Darius' passive also hurts mostly early. Afterwards, it's not something to worry about (aside from watching the stacks so that he'll target you for his ult). And to keep Perserverance up, Garen just needs to not get attacked by Darius. Garen can both tank and do damage well. Darius can do only the latter.

Garen just needs to play smart and go tanky. One Brutalizer/Black Cleaver is more than enough offensively (until much later on and if more offense is needed).

Last game, I was Garen and had a Darius at top-it was 2v2 actually. There was a Fiora with Darius and a Katarina with me (lore anyone? ;) ) I don't remember having much of a problem in lane, even when eating Darius' Decimate (and taking the bonus damage). We pretty much won our lane. As for the game, I went 9/1/10, only death being mid game, me overextending a bit (or team not following?) and having both Teemo's and Darius' passives debuff dots. I killed Darius in that game at least 3-4 times.