Talk:Garen/@comment-34168428-20190816115021/@comment-34715240-20190818073256

If you're a fan of Riste, a one-trick challenger Garen main, you'd know that he thinks this mini-rework is a buff. Sure, his ultimate will do less damage, sure, his E can no longer do true damage. However, his ultimate is now guaranteed to do true damage. Riste, in his newest video, talked about how many top laners would take nullifying orb and hexdrinker against him to completely nullify his ult. Those problems are now gone.

The villain mechanic was also very cheesy and based on an algorithm where the champion who got the most kills within the last five minutes becomes the villain. This massively increases your dueling potential against them...until it's the random Brand who picked up two kills from pressing R in the last teamfight, or the random Yuumi who built full AP and can unironically solo kill your support, and reattach to her ADC, rendering her the villain, but also, 'untargetable. 'You can see where I'm going with this. The mechanic itself needed to go a long time ago, and today was its time. I would've liked to see how an update where you can choose the villain would play out, but it would probably be pretty busted.

Riste talks about how his E spins scaling with AS open up many many build paths for him. Before, going tri force into sterak's into straight tank was the norm, and any deviation was considered trolling (and it really is trolling unless you know what you're doing). Now, tiamat > bork > berserker's > rageblade > wit's end > ravenous can actually be considered a viable build on him. (Try it yourself, it's pretty insane how quickly it can shred health, especially with conqueror). Once you get about 12 spins on your E, you can stack conqueror in about 1.5 seconds, and it honestly feels like you're a melee adc. tier two boots will let you run people down, too.

Now, building Garen is less cookie-cutter, and more adaptation. If you're solo-killing your laner, build some damage to keep the pressure up. If you're getting killed, build tanky. Garen's build can now adapt to the state of the game, rather than just being bruiser into tank. I'm sounding like a broken record here, but, please, try Garen on the PBE (that is, if he isn't banned lmao).