Talk:Garen/@comment-26910027-20150823082852

I made a rant post earlier about the Garen changes. Looking at Champion.gg, we see that Garen has a 55% win rate, which I was frankly surprised at. However, after you look at the champion breakdowns and what champions Garen counters, it becames clearer as to why he has such a high winrate despite having a kit that was mostly nerfed (aside from Villion). I believe that other changes introduced with this juggernaught patch are causing noise and artifically boosting Garen's win rate. If you look at the top champions that Garen counters, you see that the top 2 champions he counters, Mordkaiser and Olaf, are champions that only recently have seen a resurgence in popularity. Mordkaiser, at the time of this writing, has the lowest win rate in three different areas: top, middle, and support with 41.3%, 39.5%, and 43.8% win rates respectively. Mordkaiser is new and traditionally hasn't faced a Garen match up while Olaf has a relatively high skillcap compared to Garen. However, Garen's damage composition shows that he is doing 12.6%, which is a fairly decent number. As such, I believe that while Garen's winrate is inflated, his overall winrate has increased. I predict that he will drop down to a 52% +/- 1% win rate after more games are played.