Talk:Garen/@comment-91.140.9.63-20120928174953/@comment-186.213.148.96-20120929164233

Garen doesn't scale well with attack speed. He scales marvelously with attack damage and critical chance. Buy AD and crit for damage (mainly AD), not AS. Your main damage source is Q and E.

Good items for him includes Infinity Edge, Last Whisper, Brutalizer, Atma's Impaler, Maw of Malmortius. Bad items includes Phantom Dancers, Madred's Bloodrazor, Malady, Ionic Spark, etc...

As for Madred's Bloorazor in specifc, it's a VERY expensive item that gives very little useful stats for most champions. You are paying 3800 gold for 389 worth in armor, 1467 worth in AD and 1050 attack speed (the last stat useless for Garen).

The on-hit effect thus costs 894 gold (1944 on Garen(!) if you discount AS), and you better have synergy with every stat of the item if you want to make it count (Teemo and Volibear can, for example). Garen can make better use of 4k gold.

As for jungling, consider building Wriggle's Lantern, Madred's Razors item path alternative. The item gives AD, armor, lifesteal, minion obliterating passive AND free wards for the bargain of 1600 gold. Consider playing Garen solo top, because he is really strong there.

Further reference for Garen Jungle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4_8E86gqLU

Stonewall is considered by many LoL players the most talented jungler this game has. His opnion should be solid.