Talk:Garen/@comment-23838403-20150509060928/@comment-25548760-20150510170337

Cause full tank garen is useless. Tank must have some sort of heavy cc and an easy way to drop them on enemy ( Think about amumu, just q in and r , seju R-q , maokai etc ). Garen old and linear approach make his only cc a silence who need him to walk into enemy team  and even a full tank garen will never be able to  iniziate alone on a enemy team, being kited to death, soaked by enemy front line or peleed away easilly, without some sort of cordination by allies. So if you can't play him like a full tank, build him like a bruiser ( who follow after someone else iniziate the fight ) with a damage oriented build during early/mid game, in order to let him able to abuse his regeneration and mana-less kit to sit on lane and get enemy jungler aggro, trying on meanhile to negate enemy top laner cs and exp. The best way garen can help is team is bulling out enemy laner, and in order to bully them out he need to able to dish out some serious damage to be a real treath, and not just a walking fortress not even able to take down a tower in a single wave.

But in order to do this.. a maw + BC are enought.

All the other glass cannon build involve a yohumo rush, an item that on garen is not solid enought to be a core. Crit chance is hard to stack on him, due to items aviable, and attack speed is useless. And other item that sinergize with the yohumo set garen way to behind in tankiness. The " yohumo - infinity - lw " is only for the fun.