I've said for years that Garen is overtuned to broken with his kit. Passive is max HP based regen. Q is a soft cc purge, engage anti-engage, nuke. W grants him both a shield and extra tankiness on top of a tenacity buff if he activates the timing right. E is an AoE, cc immune nuke that scales really well with attack speed. Then there's the ult that does true damage based on how much damage you've done; on squishy champs this is usually around half their HP bar. On top of that he can literally build anything with tank or AD stats and still be relevant.
They haven't nerfed him a single time since season 10. Only his items have been altered, and I can't exactly say any of them have been actually nerfed. He's a bruiser who is as tanky as actual tanks with triple the damage, an inescapable AOE, silence, true execute, speed buff, CC immunity, tenacity buff, and that's not all! He's one of the few champions who gets over 7000 gold value as passives! Simply because he has both warmogs and jakshos as literal passives, hence why he is allowed to build marksmen items and still rival other tanks in terms of durability, and out dps marksmen in terms of damage. Edit: I also should've clarified by what I meant by they havent nerfed him, they've only kept buffing him since season 10.
I remember when Garen used to be kind of a troll pick cause of his simplicity, but theres been some serious quality of life buffs the last couple of seasons that work really well with items. Used to just be a tank that did damage, now hes an actual carry threat
You might enjoy Warwick mid. You can out-heal most ranged mids just by farming if you dodge some skill shots, and he directly counters most of the melee mids.
yesterday I spent like 40 minutes scaling as chogath, had 9.3k hp and my eat did like 1347 dmg to champs i was like 10/2/?. and then garen presses R at level 16 and does 1900 dmg to me. not even mentioning the cs you have to lose to lane against him. and the worst offender for me, that I only remembered after you got free double buffs, his MAGIC ability to silence people, get a MAGICAL shield and summon a giant MAGICAL sword from the heavens doesn't use magic. and he never goes home because of that combined with his passive of just having shittier warmogs for free
@i0kiVids the fact that he gets free tank stats, Regen, and has a silence, good AOE for team fights as well as a win button is frankly exactly what I'd expect El Rito to ignore
@i0kiVids I get that but you asked for suggestions for what people wanted you to play but then played champs you normally play. This is one of the first times in a while I've seen you branch outside your regular play pool... hope to see more of it.
I thought that silhouette was Braum and i0ki fell off the deep end
someday he will
Watching ioki fight for his life to get cannon gets me cracking 😂😂😂
I've said for years that Garen is overtuned to broken with his kit. Passive is max HP based regen. Q is a soft cc purge, engage anti-engage, nuke. W grants him both a shield and extra tankiness on top of a tenacity buff if he activates the timing right. E is an AoE, cc immune nuke that scales really well with attack speed. Then there's the ult that does true damage based on how much damage you've done; on squishy champs this is usually around half their HP bar. On top of that he can literally build anything with tank or AD stats and still be relevant.
They haven't nerfed him a single time since season 10. Only his items have been altered, and I can't exactly say any of them have been actually nerfed.
He's a bruiser who is as tanky as actual tanks with triple the damage, an inescapable AOE, silence, true execute, speed buff, CC immunity, tenacity buff, and that's not all!
He's one of the few champions who gets over 7000 gold value as passives! Simply because he has both warmogs and jakshos as literal passives, hence why he is allowed to build marksmen items and still rival other tanks in terms of durability, and out dps marksmen in terms of damage.
Edit: I also should've clarified by what I meant by they havent nerfed him, they've only kept buffing him since season 10.
@@raurisaurus5057 You forgot what his E has BC effect and also reduce armor, like he doesn't have a lot of passives already xD
I remember when Garen used to be kind of a troll pick cause of his simplicity, but theres been some serious quality of life buffs the last couple of seasons that work really well with items. Used to just be a tank that did damage, now hes an actual carry threat
max E first, rush atk speed boots into stridebreaker + phase rush has always been the go to on garen good for engaging and getting out
You might enjoy Warwick mid. You can out-heal most ranged mids just by farming if you dodge some skill shots, and he directly counters most of the melee mids.
I think the only time I've seen you play garen is when someone trolls you for champ requests
What do you think they need to do to bring supports more in line with other champs being that they are always down on gold and levels?
Hi I0ki! I noticed you havent streamed in a while. Hope you’re doing well and just taking a break! Happy new Year!
Can you do a settings video for newer players. Like hotkeys/camera settings/ F-Keys etc.
Great video. Can we see a Jhin Support plz.
if you want something goofy and underrated af give ap rakan midlane a try. he has such high ap scalings
yesterday I spent like 40 minutes scaling as chogath, had 9.3k hp and my eat did like 1347 dmg to champs i was like 10/2/?. and then garen presses R at level 16 and does 1900 dmg to me.
not even mentioning the cs you have to lose to lane against him.
and the worst offender for me, that I only remembered after you got free double buffs, his MAGIC ability to silence people, get a MAGICAL shield and summon a giant MAGICAL sword from the heavens doesn't use magic. and he never goes home because of that combined with his passive of just having shittier warmogs for free
Cho is a tank not a dmg dealer. You cannot have everything. You are unkillable, that should be enough.
Would kill for some Poppy in the midlane...
The not using q to run abound the map really shows you have only played him 3 times 😂😂
Garen mid is only high wr because it’s a counter pick…
yea thats so intentional it's sticky it's hard to get him off spin tuah
On-hit thresh would be funny
15:04 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I must suck bc whenever I pick Garen I get farmed
8:10 - it's harder for then to what?
I wish you stated that you're smurfing in iron. Kind of important context to understand why that akali was a bot.
bro is not mix maxing q ing back to lane crazy work
oops
@i0kiVids yep wasted like 5 whole seconds of coming to lane faster would of made a HUGE difference i bet in the q, e, r wombo combo 😂
What ELO is this???
NVM I just looked it up. Literally Bronze 3 wtf...
Go for Viego Mid
Hasn't he been #1 mid lane for like 4 patches now?
WHY ISN'T RIOT DOING ANYTHING ABOUT THIS?! HOW INSANE IS THIS CHAMPION LMAOOOO
@i0kiVids the fact that he gets free tank stats, Regen, and has a silence, good AOE for team fights as well as a win button is frankly exactly what I'd expect El Rito to ignore
Wow changing it up and doing something newish for you instead of just trolling with the same champions. Nice!!!! Hope to see more of it.
I mean I don't really consider playing the champions I play often as "trolling" but I'm glad you enjoyed this vid brotha!
@i0kiVids I get that but you asked for suggestions for what people wanted you to play but then played champs you normally play. This is one of the first times in a while I've seen you branch outside your regular play pool... hope to see more of it.