Garen

Garen is a bit too dominant right now, especially when it comes to cutting through tanky frontlines. The damage and Armor Penetration on his third ability are giving him more power than intended in teamfights. So, we’re trimming some of the base damage and Armor Penetration on this ability to keep his juggernaut identity intact, while making him less oppressive against tanks.

Garen has been with us from the beginning and has been the sturdy tank for every team. But this patch, we’re reforging his might in the form of a fighter. We’ve updated the maneuvering of Judgment to better suit a tanky fighter who sticks to his target, and we’re rewarding him for staying in the fight longer. For Courage, the previously hidden damage reduction has been replaced with a more visible shield, giving opponents clearer combat feedback. We’ve also improved how much Garen gains from durability stats, allowing him to better balance offense and survivability.

We’re adjusting some numbers around Garen to make sure he’s in line with his peers.

Garen has not been doing so hot in the laning phase lately. These changes will make sure he’s able to fully scale during laning phase and contribute to later team fights.

Baron Laners these days have a wide variety of items to choose from depending on their lane match-up. This puts Garen in a tricky spot as he no longer has the early game pressure he used to exert. We’re giving him a little boost in damage to make sure his sword stays sharpened.

To keep Demacia in balance, we had to give Garen the same QOL as Darius. Garen changes will be available January 4 at 00:01 UTC.

Since our recent adjustments and additions to the Baron Lane, Garen has been struggling to keep up. To lend this noble soldier a hand, we’re buffing some of his mobility and damage mitigation. This will give Garen players some more room for skill expression and help him compete with his foes in lane.

Since our last changes, Garen has significantly fallen off in higher levels of play. We’re going to give this golden boy some justice and revert Judgment’s damage nerf and increase the crit multiplier on it so that you’ll be rewarded more for your skillful plays.

Garen’s been able to spin his way to victory, even when he’s not building a lot of damage. We’re putting some more power into his ratios, so that Garen will have to choose between spinning and one-shotting his enemies to win or spinning and being an annoying tank to win.

Garen's full tank build has been too consistent in terms of damage output. We are making some light changes here to shift his power more into building AD to balance out the Might of Demacia.

Garen is too good at attritioning out his opponents with his tankiness and low ultimate cooldown. We are toning this down so he doesn’t become the absolute king of Baron lane.

Garen added to Wild Rift

Despite his massive suit of armor, Garen was pretty squishy. We’re boosting his defensive stats so he can do his thing without getting his health bar blown up so quickly.