Full Crit Garen Build

ARAM Build Guide for champion Garen and build Full Crit.

Full Crit Garen build with runes and items. Full Crit Garen guide offers in-depth how-to play, skill order and tips. Play Full Crit Garen build in League of Legends Patch 14.21!

Updated: 2024-09-28 ()

TLDR

Starting items
B. F. Sword should be final item in your build.
Quick Skill Order
Garen ability Decisive Strike should be leveled first.
Q
Garen ability Judgment should be leveled second.
E
Garen ability Courage should be leveled third.
W
Final items
Zephyr should be final item in your build.
The Collector should be final item in your build.
Navori Flickerblade should be final item in your build.
Lord Dominik's Regards should be final item in your build.
Infinity Edge should be final item in your build.
Edge of Night should be final item in your build.
Quick Runes
Major rune Hail of Blades from Domination tree.
Minor rune Precision.
Summoner spells
Pick Mark as your Summoner Spell.
Pick Flash as your Summoner Spell.

Full Crit Garen Runes

Domination
Domination major tree Electrocute rune.
Domination major tree Dark Harvest rune.
Domination major tree Hail of Blades rune.
Domination major tree Cheap Shot rune.
Domination major tree Taste of Blood rune.
Domination major tree Sudden Impact rune.
Domination major tree Zombie Ward rune.
Domination major tree Ghost Poro rune.
Domination major tree Eyeball Collection rune.
Domination major tree Treasure Hunter rune.
Domination major tree Relentless Hunter rune.
Domination major tree Ultimate Hunter rune.
Precision
Precision minor tree Absorb Life rune.
Precision minor tree Triumph rune.
Precision minor tree Presence of Mind rune.
Precision minor tree Legend: Alacrity rune.
Precision minor tree Legend: Haste rune.
Precision minor tree Legend: Bloodline rune.
Precision minor tree Coup de Grace rune.
Precision minor tree Cut Down rune.
Precision minor tree Last Stand rune.
Passive
Passive tree Adaptive Force rune (+9 Adaptive Force).
Passive tree Attack Speed rune (+10% Attack Speed).
Passive tree Ability Haste rune (+8 Ability Haste).
Passive tree Adaptive Force rune (+9 Adaptive Force).
Passive tree Move Speed rune (+2 Movement Speed).
Passive tree Health Scaling rune (+10-180 Health (based on level)).
Passive tree Health rune (+65 Health).
Passive tree Tenacity And Slow Resist rune (+10 Tenacity and Slow Resist).
Passive tree Health Scaling rune (+10-180 Health (based on level)).

How it works

General
  1. You go Full Crit.
  2. You go in and play around Hail of Blades to burst enemies.
  3. You back away and wait for Hail of Blades. Repeat.
  4. This build works best if enemy team has squishy champions. If you are against a lot off-tanks/bruisers, this might not be best build. You can make it work, however, by rushing Lord Dominik's Regards.
Garen Full Crit specific
  1. Your ideal combo should be auto + auto + auto + Q + E. Or E, then auto + auto + auto + Q.
  2. Beware of Q + auto combo! It doesn't really work with Hail of Blades!
  3. This build is focused on auto attacking. If you are interested in spinning instead, go check other Garen build.

How to play

General
  1. This build shines with 100% crit. You will instakill squishes. Until that, it might be challenging to 100-0 anyone. Look for opportunities to go in and score kills. Also focus on farming minions if possible (to scale faster).
  2. Wait for your moment to go for a kill. You have a big burst thanks to Full Crit and Hail of Blades, but you are squishy. And outside of Hail of Blades procs (especially early game) you don't have much damage.
  3. Snowball / Mark is an essential cooldown for this build. Do not waste it or even wait to hit the enemy at point-blank range to ensure hit (so you follow them, if they Flash).
  4. Enemy team might not check your items right away, you could use that for your advantage to nuke unsuspected enemy.
  5. After they checked your items and noticed that you have damage and are squishy, they are going to target you in fights. Be careful, after early game probably you need to modify your playstyle and stay back and wait for a good moment to join fights.
  6. If they have tons of CC, get Mercury's Treads, Edge of Night or even Mercurial Scimitar to counter that.
  7. If you are not doing well, or an enemy team is slightly ahead, you can adapt and buy tank items. Worst case scenario, you can sell everything late game and 'respec' into full tank.

Tips and Tricks

General
  1. You can use E before taking portal (frost-gate). You will be spinning during travel, damaging everyone on your path. If you are playing Full Crit Garen or Lethality Garen, you will mow them over.
Riot
  1. Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
  2. Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
  3. Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.

Skill Order

  • Garen [object Object] ability.
    Q
    Decisive Strike
  • Garen [object Object] ability.
    W
    Courage
  • Garen [object Object] ability.
    E
    Judgment
  • Garen [object Object] ability.
    R
    Demacian Justice

Items

Starting items
B. F. Sword item.
Good first items
The Collector item.
Infinity Edge item.
Boots
Berserker's Greaves item.
Mercury's Treads item.
Ionian Boots of Lucidity item.
Plated Steelcaps item.
Get it post 15 lvl
Zephyr item.
Good items
Navori Flickerblade item.
Phantom Dancer item.
Bloodthirster item.
The Collector item.
Infinity Edge item.
Situational items
Immortal Shieldbow item.
Mercurial Scimitar item.
Edge of Night item.
Maw of Malmortius item.
Situational vs. tanks
Lord Dominik's Regards item.
Blade of The Ruined King item.
Situational vs. healing
Executioner's Calling item.
Mortal Reminder item.
Situational vs. shields
Serpent's Fang item.
Good MR/Armor items
Death's Dance item.
Edge of Night item.
Wit's End item.
If you need to go tanky
Jak'Sho, The Protean item.
Kaenic Rookern item.
Thornmail item.
Warmog's Armor item.
Force of Nature item.
Sunfire Aegis item.
For the last fight
Additional considerations for these items is advised!
Elixir of Iron item.
Elixir of Wrath item.
Example final build
Zephyr item.
The Collector item.
Navori Flickerblade item.
Lord Dominik's Regards item.
Infinity Edge item.
Edge of Night item.