Talk:Garen/@comment-5266525-20131110023424/@comment-4304118-20131110183849

I'm glad People are realizing that Garen is a solid top laner, he can snowball hard and if he doesn't, he can still push well enough to be a good offtank lategame with just farm.

Normally I'd wait until lvl 5 to start getting really agressive, wear him down so it's an easy kill by lvl 6-7, Against certain Junglers Garen can simply slip away but I'd advise you to get wards if you get an advantage! Simply nuking down the Jungler to get that red then kill the guy in your lane is something Garen can do, specially against other melee foes that need their spells to trade well.

Garen can take on Teemo easily if he goes all in or gets jungle help to force his Flash then crushes him using his own flash offensively by lvl 5-6, specially true if you get to 6 before him due to forcing him an early recall.