Talk:Garen/@comment-85.225.51.153-20120930131009/@comment-5414313-20121002043333

The Garen guides on Solomid.net are atrocious. Don't use the Solomid.net guides, as Westrice's Garen guide is very outdated and the one other guide there has Triforce as a core item. That guide was taken down and then put back up for some reason.

Lolpro's Garen guide is being overhauled, I think, and is very incomplete, with a lot of mixed new and old information that contradicts each other.

Mobafire guides are just on the whole not that great. The builds are sub-optimal at best, and I'm being respectful there.

Simply put, there are no good Garen guides out there. Very few people really know how to optimize this character.

But you can't go wrong with Merc Treads, Youmuu's Ghostblade and Warmog's/Sunfire Cape. Other good items are Infinity Edge, Last Whisper, Force of Nature, Guardian Angel, Maw of Malmortius, and even Aegis of the Legion is very cost effective because of Courage.