Thank you for taking the time to check out my guide! I am a masters/GM NA 1.3mil Darius main who also plays a lot of mundo, garen and illaoi: https://www.op.gg/summoners/na/BiliBiliBD-Alpha For the last two seasons/splits I have shifted pretty much completely from only playing darius to only playing mundo/garen/illaoi. I'll probably return to darius at some point but as of right now he is unplayable in high elo with all the indirect nerfs he keeps getting. Ghost nerf was the nail in the coffin


this screenshot is from August 13 2024

I initially fell in love with garen because his champion specific mechanics are incredibly braindead which lets you focus on being faker at dodging stuff and spacing. But overtime I have come to find he has a very nice niche of being a pure split pusher that focuses on out-tempoing, rather than just trying to 2v1 like illaoi or mundo. That's pretty rare to come across, and afaik garen is the only champion that plays this way and is somewhat tanky. If you like a character with more depth than people give him credit for, but still doesnt take itself too seriously (aatrox/kayn mains WILL have 20 e-girls on standby, if that's what you want garen is not for you) with really strong stats instead of flashy plays and the potential to completely carry a game if played well, Garen is a great choice. I am a 19 y/old in university, It's been an adjustment from highschool so I haven't had much time to stream for a while, but I'm starting to stream again, so if you could check that out and give me a follow if this all sounds interesting to you, I'd definitely appreciate it: https://www.twitch.tv/bilibilibd

I've also made a Darius & Mundo guide (the mundo guide is incredibly detailed) on here and will probably make more in the future as they are a lot of fun so check that out if that sounds interesting.

Lastly, if anything seems wrong, you disagree or there's something I should improve upon, I'd love to hear about it! I'm still learning, and want to put out the best guide possible. If you could quickly rate it as well so I know just in general how the guides looking, it'd mean a lot to me.

FYI IMO the best perma-ban if you plan on purely playing garen is camille, every other extreme counter to garen is usually only played as a counter-champ and therefore people generally don't have that much experience on them or will even counter you with them (besides darius but A) he's never played in high elo and B) darius is more of a coinflip lane where he gets to flip twice, camille is a "get a gank or lose" situation). Actually it's quite the opposite for camille, she is a very popular champion and is very strong most of the time