Talk:Garen/@comment-69.244.210.223-20120411170518/@comment-4900160-20120413215640

My ELO is currently really low (~1100) because of defeat spree (damn ELO hell). I'm slowly getting it back. I mainly used Garen in normal draft, but I can definitely say I have encountered really strong top laners as Garen, as well as more common players.

I think Garen is currently viable, as a disruptiv bruiser dealing a lot of damage and being a living area-denial. He is good at controling the map since any decent players avoid passing by bushes when he is missing. I have recently seen him played when I was watching Wickd's stream, so it looks like even high ELO players still use him on rare occasions.

I'll tell you my thoughts when the patch eventually comes out. To be honest I haven't played him for awhile and need to play some training games before.

In any case, Garen is definitely a strong counter pick if you as me. Fact is one cannot really use him as "main", because countering him in lane is easy (he basically gets shut down by most ranged champs, and especially cait/ez).