Talk:Garen/@comment-186.59.12.98-20120906035913/@comment-46.7.207.128-20120906181200

For Garen you likely will be top lane. Many people have different preferences how they like to play Garen, which is fair enough, but I like to start with a Doran's Shield, boots, Frozen Mallet then Atma's Impaler and if enough time, finish it off with a Ghostblade.

Some people are fans of the Infinity Edge but I find unless you are ridiculously fed, investing in it generally deprives you of getting other, cheaper equiment like Fratmas above, which loses you some damage but gives you other attributes to compensate.

It could also be likely you're just not used to top laning as Garen, which will take a little while to adjust but he isn't too difficult to get the hang of. Keep at it and you will find that the Might of Demacia is a pretty snazzy Champion :P