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Garen
GameplayGaren is a champion in League of Legends.[1]
Abilities
- Perseverance does not go on nor refresh its cooldown from damage which was fully prevented by a shield or invulnerability.
- The enhanced attack will apply other on-hit effects and can critically strike as normal (the bonus damage does not).
- The bonus damage will also apply life steal.
- The bonus damage is applied to structures.
- The bonus damage will also apply
- Decisive Strike locks Garen out of using basic attacks for a short period of time. This is shortened with attack speed.
- The enhanced attack will still complete and hit the target even if they become untargetable during the attack's windup.
- Decisive Strike will not prevent the reapplication of slows (e.g. the persistent slow from Pillar of Ice will be immediately reapplied after removal if Garen is still within its area of effect).
- Spell shield will only negate the silence.
- Decisive Strike's lunge can pass very thin terrain and will otherwise not be able to. In any case, Garen will still hit his target.
- Courage's bonus resistances are only gained when it is ranked up at least once, but Courage's passive is retroactive for units killed before it was learned.
- 𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐄𝐒𝐓 : Courage's bonus resistances can be obtained by any of Garen's damage sources (basic attacks, abilities, summoner spells, item actives).
- This does not include last hits transferred to Garen artificially, through effects such as Spoils of War.
- This does not include last hits transferred to Garen artificially, through effects such as
- The kills on these enemy unit types count towards Courage's bonus resistances:
- Champions (kills and 𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐄𝐒𝐓 : assists)
- All minions and monsters
- Champion summoned units (e.g. Noxious Trap, Powder Keg, Dark Procession)
- All pets and clones.
- The bonus is equal for all these units; Large units do not grant a larger bonus.
- The kills on these enemy unit types do not count towards Courage's bonus resistances:
- Courage will only grant bonus resistances from units killed by Garen himself. Eye of the Herald and Spoils of War of allies do not count.
- The Tenacity increase stacks additively with the tenacity reduction from Brittle, but multiplicatively with other sources.
- Howling Abyss differences edit
- Bonus resistances on-kill changed to 0.5. Number of enemy kills needed to reach the maximum amount changed to 60.
- The initial casts count as an ability activation for the purposes of on-cast effects such as Spellblade and stacking Force Pulse.
- Deactivating the ability manually does not.
- Each spin triggers a stack of Conqueror.
- For the purpose of moving closer to an enemy when right clicking them, Judgment also reduces Garen's attack range 「 to 100 」「 by 75 」 for the duration.
- Judgment cancels Garen's last movement command upon ending.
- Each spin deals damage simultaneously to all enemies within its range when the spin is completed.
- The spin animation is capped at once per 0.2 seconds, but the amount of ticks will keep on scaling.
- The armor reduction stacks multiplicatively with other percentage armor penetration effects.
| Attacking | Disabled | |
|---|---|---|
| Abilities |  Decisive Strike and  Courage are usable.  Demacian Justice interrupts.
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| Movement | Allowed | |
| Items | Usable | All the other item-actives are usable |
| Disabled | N/A | |
| Interrupted by | N/A | |
| Consumables | Usable | |
| Spells | Usable |  Barrier  Clarity  Cleanse  Exhaust  Ghost  Heal  Ignite  Smite  Flash  Teleport  Hexflash
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| Disabled |  Recall
| |
| Interrupted by | N/A | |
| Interrupted by | ||
- Ultra Rapid Fire differences edit
- Can not stack spin casts.
- Demacian Justice is cancelled and does not go on cooldown under the following circumstances:
- The target becomes untargetable.
- The target leaves sight range while Garen is nearsighted.
- The target is too far away.
- The target dies.
- The target becomes
- The target will die if they're at least under 20 / 23.08 / 25.93% maximum health + 120 / 230.77 / 333.33 flat health on top of that. This does not count effects that mitigate true damage, such as shields.
Patch history
- For the expanded patch notes, see here.
- Decisive Strike
- Bonus movement speed increased to 35% from 30%.
- Demacian Justice
- Target's health ratio increased to 25 / 30 / 35% of target's missing health from 20 / 25 / 30%.
- Courage
- Maximum stacks increased to 150 from 120.
- Bonus resistances per stack reduced to 0.2 from 0.25.
- Maximum bonus resistances unchanged.
- Judgment
- Undocumented: Global crit damage interpretation reworked, Judgment crit bonus damage increased to +58% from +33%.(bug)
- Judgment
- Bug Fix: Number of spins now properly accounts for the bonus attack speed gained from Trinity Force's Mythic passive.
- Bug Fix: Number of spins now properly accounts for the bonus attack speed gained from
- Stats
- Base magic resistance reduced to 32 from 32.1.
- V10.23 - November 12th Hotfix
- Judgment
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where preseason's global crit damage reduction nerfed Judgment crits from +33% to +8%.
- Courage
- Bug Fix: No longer increases his base armor and magic resist.
- Perseverance
- Cooldown increased to 8 seconds from 7.
- Decisive Strike
- Bonus movement speed duration changed to 1 / 1.65 / 2.3 / 2.95 / 3.6 seconds from 1.5 / 2 / 2.5 / 3 / 3.5.
- General
- Recommended items updated.
- Stats
- Magic resistance growth reduced to 0.75 from 1.25.
- Judgment
- Critical strike damage reduced to 33% from 50%.
- Decisive Strike
- AD ratio increased to 50% AD from 40% AD.
- Courage
- New Effect: Now passively gains an additional 10% bonus armor and 10% bonus magic resistance after reaching maximum stacks.
- New Effect: Now has a base shield strength of 70 / 95 / 120 / 145 / 170.
- Shield health ratio changed to 20% bonus health from 10% maximum health.
- Judgment
- New Effect: Now deals 150% damage against non-epic monsters.
- Decisive Strike
- Bug Fix: Is now an unstoppable basic attack.
- Bug Fix: Is now an
- Decisive Strike
- Bug Fix: Is no longer blocked by spell-shielded champions.
- Judgment
- Base damage per level increased to 0 − 8.2 (based on level) from 0 − 6.6 (based on level).
- Judgment
- Additional spins per attack speed reduced to 1 spin per 25% bonus attack speed from 1 spin per 20% bonus attack speed.
- Base damage per level reduced to 0 − 6.6 (based on level) from 0 − 8.2 (based on level).
- Decisive Strike
- Bug Fix: If the attack is canceled due to losing vision of his target, he's no longer locked out of casting Judgment until the empowered attack window ends.
- Bug Fix: If the attack is canceled due to losing vision of his target, he's no longer locked out of casting
- Judgment
- Base damage per spin reduced to 4 / 8 / 12 / 16 / 20 from 8 / 12 / 16 / 20 / 24.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where he would sometimes get an extra spin.
- Stats
- Attack speed growth increased to 3.65% from 2.9%
- Base health increased to 620 from 616.28.
- Health growth reduced to 84 from 84.25.
- Perseverance
- Health regeneration changed to 1.5% − 10.1% (based on level) of his maximum health from 2 / 8% (based on level).
- Removed: Regeneration no longer doubles while below 25 / 50% (based on level) of his maximum health.
- Cooldown changed to 7 seconds at all levels from 9 / 4 (based on level).
- Removed: Non-epic monsters no longer interrupt regeneration before level 11.
- Decisive Strike
- New Effect: No longer has a static delay of 0.5 seconds. Now scales with his attack speed, behaving more similarly to a basic attack reset.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where when he is slowed, Decisive Strike's lockout time dramatically increased.
- Undocumented: No longer triggers on-attack effects on jump (i.e Statikk Shiv).
- Undocumented: Statikk Shiv can now critically strike when used with Decisive Strike.
- Courage
- Resistances per stack reduced to 0.25 from 0.33.
- Resistances cap reduced to 30 from 50.
- Minion kills to max stacks reduced to 120 from 150.
- New Active Effect: Grants a 10% of maximum health shield for the first 0.75 seconds.
- Removed: No longer reduces damage by 60% for the first 0.75 seconds.
- Judgment
- Number of spins changed to 7 plus 1 per 20% bonus attack speed from 5 − 10 (based on level).
- Only counts bonus attack speed from items and levels.
- Base damage per spin reduced to 8 / 12 / 16 / 20 / 24 from 14 / 18 / 22 / 26 / 30.
- New Effect: Now has an additional base damage per spin of 0 − 8.2 (based on level).
- AD ratio per spin reduced to 32 / 34 / 36 / 38 / 40% AD from 36 / 37 / 38 / 39 / 40% AD.
- Removed: No longer deals 33% bonus damage when hitting a single target.
- New Effect: Now deals 25% bonus damage per tick to the nearest enemy.
- Hits needed to shred armor increased to 6 from 4.
- New Effect: Now grants stacks of Conqueror on each spin.
- Number of spins changed to 7 plus 1 per 20% bonus attack speed from 5 − 10 (based on level).
- Demacian Justice
- Removed: No longer marks the enemy with the most kills in the last 5 minutes as the Villain. Basic attacks and Judgment no longer deal 1% of the Villain's maximum health as bonus true damage. Demacian Justice's damage is no longer converted to true damage against the Villain.
- New Effect: Now grants vision of the target for 1 second.
- Damage type changed to true from magic.
- Base damage reduced to 150 / 300 / 450 from 175 / 350 / 525.
- Health ratio reduced to 20 / 25 / 30% of the target's missing health from 28.6 / 34.3 / 40%.
- Removed: No longer marks the enemy with the most kills in the last 5 minutes as the Villain. Basic attacks and
- Courage
- Bonus resistances per kill increased to 0.33 from 0.25.
- Maximum bonus resistances increased to 50 from 30.
- Total unit kill required increased to 150 from 120.
- Cooldown reduced to 23 / 21 / 19 / 17 / 15 seconds from 24 / 23 / 22 / 21 / 20.
- Active duration reduced to 2 / 2.75 / 3.5 / 4.25 / 5 seconds from 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6.
- Decisive Strike
- New Effect: Ability icon border now shows the remaining time for the empowered attack and movement speed.
- Decisive Strike
- Base damage reduced to 30 / 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 from 30 / 65 / 100 / 135 / 170.
- God-King Garen
- Bug Fix: Several missing VO lines have been restored.
- General
- Adjusted splash artwork for Rogue Admiral Garen.
- Adjusted splash artwork for
- Decisive Strike
- Base damage increased to 30 / 65 / 100 / 135 / 170 from 30 / 55 / 80 / 105 / 130.
- Courage
- Maximum bonus resistances increased to 40 from 30.
- Total unit kill required increased to 160 from 120.
- Maximum bonus resistances increased to 40 from 30.
- Steel Legion Garen
- Demacian Justice
- Bug Fix: Villain mark is now at the same height when comparing it to enemy and ally perspectives.
- Stats
- Base health regeneration increased to 8 from 7.84.
- Demacian Justice
- New Effect: Now draws nearby minion aggro when targeting an enemy champion.
- Stats
- Base attack damage increased to 66 from 57.88.
- Base armor increased to 36 from 27.536.
- Perseverance
- Health regeneration increased to 2 / 8 (based on level)% maximum health from 2 / 4 / 10 (based on level)% maximum health.
- Out-of-combat timer reduced to 9 / 4 (based on level) seconds from 9 / 6 / 4 (based on level).
- New Effect: Health regeneration doubles to 4 / 16 (based on level)% maximum health while below 25 / 50 (based on level)% of his maximum health.
- Courage
- New Effect: Now displays how much damage is mitigated.
- New Effect: Damage reduction is doubled to 60% for the first 0.75 seconds. Drops to 30% thereafter.
- New Effect: Grants 60% Tenacity for the first 0.75 seconds.
- Judgment
- AD ratio increased to 36 / 37 / 38 / 39 / 40% AD from 34 / 35 / 36 / 37 / 38%.
- Judgment
- New Effect: Enemy champions hit by 4 spins lose 25% of their armor for 6 seconds. Hits after the 4th refresh the duration.
- Perseverance
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Rift Herald couldn't disable Perseverance after it 'ranked up' at level 11.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where
- General
- Splash artwork for Commando Garen updated to the Chinese art.
- Splash artwork for
- General
- Splash artwork for Sanguine Garen and Desert Trooper Garen updated to the Chinese art.
- Splash artwork for
- General
- Adjusted splash artwork for Rogue Admiral Garen.
- Adjusted splash artwork for
- Judgment / Demacian Justice
- Fixed a bug where Judgment was dealing 1% of Garen's maximum health instead of his villainous target's maximum health.
- Demacian Justice
- Kills against Garen will no longer be considered for determining the villain.
- Killing champion clones will not longer be considered a kill for determining the villain.
- Stats
- Movement speed reduced to 340 from 345.
- Decisive Strike
- Bonus movement speed reduced to 30% from 35%.
- Fixed a bug where the attack wasn't triggering against structures
- Courage (Crystal Scar, Howling Abyss and Twisted Treeline)
- Resists per kill doubled to 0.25 from 0.125.
- Judgment
- Issuing attack commands while spinning will now make Garen path slightly closer to his target.
- General
- Recommended items updated.
- Stats
- Health growth reduced to 84.25 from 96.
- Attack damage growth increased to 4.5 from 3.5.
- Armor growth increased to 3 from 2.7.
- Attack range increased to 175 from 125.
- Decisive Strike
- Silence duration reduced to 1.5 seconds at all ranks from 1.5 / 1.75 / 2 / 2.25 / 2.5.
- Movement speed duration reduced to 1.5 / 2 / 2.5 / 3 / 3.5 seconds from 1.5 / 2.25 / 3 / 3.75 / 4.5.
- If the attack is used on champion, it will have a small dash attached to it, similar to Bear Stance, moving Garen 50 units closer to his target than his attack range.
- Courage
- Removed: Passive bonus 20% of bonus armor and magic resist.
- New Passive: Unit kills permanently grant 0.25 armor and magic resist, quadrupled to 1 on large and epic Monsters and champion kills. This bonus is capped at 30.
- Active no longer grants Tenacity.
- Judgment
- New Effect: Damage ticks changed to 5 − 10 (based on level) based on level from 6 at all ranks.
- Total duration unchanged.
- Base damage changed to 14 / 18 / 22 / 26 / 30 from 10 / 22.5 / 35 / 47.5 / 60.
- Attack damage ratio reduced to 34 / 35 / 36 / 37 / 38% AD from 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 / 55% AD.
- New Effect: Judgment deals 33% bonus damage when striking only one target.
- Single target damage: 18.67 / 24 / 29.33 / 34.67 / 40 (+45.33 / 46.67 / 48 / 49.33 / 50.67% AD).
- Cooldown reduced to 9 seconds at all ranks from 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 / 9.
- New Effect: Cancelling Judgment early will now refund cooldown equal to the remaining duration.
- Removed: 25% reduced damage to minions.
- New Effect: Damage ticks changed to 5 − 10 (based on level) based on level from 6 at all ranks.
- Demacian Justice
- Updated ability icon.
- New Passive: The enemy champion with the most recent kills is the Villain. Garen's basic attacks and ticks of Judgment deal 1% target's maximum health as bonus true damage versus Villains.
- New Effect: Demacian Justice's Active deals true damage versus Villains.
- Demacian Justice
- Cooldown reduced to 120 / 100 / 80 seconds from 160 / 120 / 80.
- Demacian Justice
- Fixed a bug where Demacian Justice would cancel if Garen lost sight of his target.
- Perseverance
- Cooldown reduced to 9 / 6 / 4 (based on level) seconds from 9 at all levels.
- Health regeneration reduced to 0.4 / 0.8 / 2 (based on level)% of max health per second from 0.4% at all levels.
- At level 11, non-epic monsters will no longer interrupt the effect.
- General
- Splash artwork for Dreadknight Garen updated to the Chinese art.
- Splash artwork for
- Judgment
- Garen can now activate Tiamat's and Ravenous Hydra's active effect Crescent while spinning.
- Garen can now activate
- Stats
- Base armor increased to 23 from 19.
- Judgment
- No longer deals reduced damage to monsters (still reduced against minions).
- Fixed a bug where the first tick did not damage units.
- General
- Visual Update.
- New models and textures for all skins.
- New splash artwork for Original Garen.
- New voice-over.
- Perseverance
- Heal amount reduced to 0.4% of maximum health per second from 0.5%.
- Decisive Strike
- Fixed a bug where the cast time was faster than intended.
- Courage
- Passive changed to increase bonus armor and magic resist (from items, runes, and/or masteries) by 20% instead of total armor and magic resist by 20%.
- Demacian Justice
- Fixed a bug where the cast time was faster than intended.
- Stats
- Movement speed increased to 345 from 320.
- Stats
- Base health regen per 5 reduced to 8.25 from 9.85.
- Health regen per 5 per level reduced to 0.75 from 0.85.
- Base attack damage reduced to 56 from 60.1.
- Attack damage per level increased to 3.5 from 3.
- Perseverance
- Delay increased to 9 seconds from 7.
- No longer deactivates when damaged by minions.
- Now displays the health regen gained in the tooltip.
- Decisive Strike
- Cooldown reduced to 8 seconds at all ranks from 12 / 11 / 10 / 9 / 8.
- Movement speed increased to 35% at all ranks from 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35%.
- Movement speed duration adjusted to 1.5 / 2.25 / 3 / 3.75 / 4.5 seconds from 4 at all ranks.
- Base damage increased to 30 / 55 / 80 / 105 / 130 from 30 / 45 / 60 / 75 / 90.
- Silence duration reduced to 1.5 / 1.75 / 2 / 2.25 / 2.5 seconds from 2.5 at all ranks.
- Now removes slows on activation.
- Can now critically strike again.
- Buff duration reduced to 4.5 seconds from 6.
- Fixed: Garen's next basic attack after Decisive Strike no longer occurs unusually quickly.
- Fixed: Decisive Strike is no longer consumed if Garen fails to finish attacking.
- While performing Decisive Strike, Garen now continues to follow his target if they are moving.
- Courage
- Changed to passively increase armor and magic resist by 20% rather than 0 to 25 based on kills.
- Active damage reduction changed to 30% at all ranks from 20 / 24 / 28 / 32 / 36%.
- Active now additionally grants 30% crowd control reduction.
- Duration changed to 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 seconds from 3 at all ranks.
- Cooldown changed to 24 / 23 / 22 / 21 / 20 seconds from 30 / 27 / 24 / 21 / 18.
- Judgment
- Base damage reduced to 20 / 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 per second from 50 / 90 / 130 / 170 / 210.
- AD scaling changed to 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 / 110% AD per second from 140% bonus AD.
- Damage dealt to minions increased to 75% from 50%.
- No longer removes slows on activation or reduces the duration of incoming slows while active.
- Ignores unit collision during Judgment but takes a 20% movement speed penalty when spinning through minions.
- Fixed: Judgment no longer locks out Garen from taking other actions longer than intended.
- Demacian Justice
- Cooldown changed to 160 / 120 / 80 seconds from 140 / 120 / 100.
- Perseverance
- Added a buff timer to show when it will reactivate.
- Demacian Justice
- Fixed a bug where Demacian Justice would not finish casting if Garen lost vision of the target during the cast.
- Decisive Strike
- Attack damage ratio reduced to 40% AD from 50% AD.
- Judgment
- Base damage reduced to 50 / 90 / 130 / 170 / 210 per second from 60 / 100 / 140 / 180 / 220.
- Bonus attack damage ratio increased to 140% bonus AD) per second from 120% bonus AD.
- Decisive Strike
- Movement speed boost duration increased to 4 seconds from 3.
- Judgment:
- Cooldown reduced to 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 / 9 seconds from 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10.
- Courage:
- Maximum armor and magic resistance increased to 25 at all ranks from 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25.
- Perseverance
- Fixed a bug where Perseverance could sometimes activate immediately after taking damage.
- Now marks Garen as being in combat even if the damage is shielded.
- Now shows the particle on Garen even if at 100% health.
- Fixed a bug where
- Stats
- Movement speed increased to 320 from 315.
- Courage
- Damage reduction increased to 20 / 24 / 28 / 32 / 36% from 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30%.
- Decisive Strike
- Attack damage ratio increased to 50% AD from 20% AD.
- Movement speed boost increased to 3 seconds from 2.
- Duration reduced to 6 seconds from 7.
- Judgment
- Cooldown reduced to 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 seconds from 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 / 11.
- Judgment
- Bonus attack damage ratio increased to 120% bonus AD per second from 100% bonus AD.
- Judgment
- Base damage increased to 60 / 100 / 140 / 180 / 220 per second from 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180.
- Decisive Strike
- Base damage reduced to 30 / 45 / 60 / 75 / 90 from 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 120.
- Attack damage ratio increased to 20% AD from 10% AD.
- Judgment
- Damage ticks reduced to one per second from two.
- Total duration unchanged.
- Base damage changed to 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 per second from 30 / 70 / 110 / 150 / 190.
- Now scales off bonus attack damage rather than 70% of all attack damage.
- General
- Reduced Garen's selection size.
- Judgment
- Can no longer damage invisible minions or objects like wards.
- Stats
- Base movement speed reduced to 315 from 320.
- Courage
- Active damage reduction reduced to 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30% from 30% at all ranks.
- Active duration changed to 3 seconds at all ranks from 2 / 2.5 / 3 / 3.5 / 4.
- Perseverance
- No longer removed by combat dehancing effects such as Blood Scent.
- No longer removed by combat dehancing effects such as
- Courage
- Damage reduction reduced to 30% from 35%.
- Demacian Justice
- Fixed various bugs that caused Demacian Justice to fizzle sometimes.
- Courage:
- Maximum armor and magic resistance reduced to 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 from 7 / 14 / 21 / 28 / 35.
- Judgment
- Now reduces the duration of new slows by 50% rather than granting immunity to slowing effects. Judgment will still completely clear any existing slows when activated.
- Decisive Strike
- Now resets Garen's auto attack timer on cast.
- Judgment
- Slightly increased the range of Judgment.
- Garen can now cast all of his spells while using Judgment instead of just Courage.
- Decisive Strike
- Fixed a bug with Decisive Strike that would cause the icon cooldown to display improperly.
- Fixed a bug where Garen will sometimes appear with a different skin after reconnecting.
- Perseverance
- Fixed the buff tooltip for Perseverance to show the correct value.
- Decisive Strike
- Fixed a bug with Decisive Strike where it was silencing for the incorrect amount of time.
- Fixed a bug with Decisive Strike so that it can no longer crit.
- V1.0.0.83 Added.
- Perseverance (Innate)
- Garen gains a large health regeneration boost when he stays out of combat for a few seconds.
- Decisive Strike (Q)
- Garen gains a movement speed boost upon activating this ability, and his next melee attack deals increased damage and silences his opponent.
- Courage (W)
- Garen permanently increases his armor and magic resistance every time he kills a minion, and he can activate this ability to take reduced damage from all sources for a few seconds.
- Judgment (E)
- Garen spins his sword rapidly around his body and moves with it, dealing large amounts of physical damage to all enemies within its radius.
- Demacian Justice (Ultimate)
- Garen executes Demacian Justice upon an opponent, dealing a large amount of damage with bonus damage for health that an opponent is missing.
See also
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