Talk:Garen/@comment-79.175.112.222-20120923233639/@comment-5414313-20120924192746

Garen does two things extremely well at this time: He absorbs damage, and he can dish out loads of it. He's also very difficult to lock down with CC thanks to Courage and Merc Treads.

But any Garen who is diving the enemy team and surviving is fighting a disorganized team that probably can't CS properly and is therefore underfed. This is common in low ELO, people rely more on kills than farming, and when they start to fall behind, they can't catch back up because they can't get kills and don't know how to properly farm.

His complete lack of interrupts outside of a single target 2.5 second Silence means that if he's focused, he WILL explode against a good team.

Garen is not that much of a powerhouse that he can 1v5 a whole team.