Talk:Garen/@comment-5414313-20120913190014/@comment-1058531-20120923125941

I find garen is amazing when benefiting form flat armor pen red runes and quints and that his blues and yellows should be entirely flat mr and armor. My build usually ends up the following way.

1: Whatever boots are best for the situations at hand (usually swiftness)

2: Youmuu's Ghostblade

3: Last Whisper

4: Infinity Edge

5: Infinity Edge

6: Guardian angel

Please note that with the last 3 items I have no reccomendation as to what you should build first as it will completely be dependant on how well your doing. If you are completely pubstomping you may want the ga first as your damage is already high, if you need more damage in teamfights grab an IE first, if your having trouble with getting focused you may want to swap one of the IE's for a frozen mallet.

Yeah so I wrote a HUGE lengthy response at first, with plenty of number running to compare the builds, but I accidently closed the page and lost it all, so this was the cut short version.

Shensword something you needto consider is garen has some of the best AD ratios in game, and his w and passive already give him plenty of sustain in lane. If your playing garen properly you can completely destroy an opponent without taking nearly any damage in trades with little to no defensive items. Saying you dont need infinity edge is just plain wrong for garen, he benefits from both the increased damage from the AD the increased critical chance (because both decisive strike and judgement can crit).