Garen
Patches 16.20 to 16.22 · EUW- Pick
- 3.3%picked in 261 of 7,904 games
- Ban
- 3.5%129 bans over 3,675 games, against 3.8% in soloQ
Amateur: 7,832 games from amateur tournaments, last 60 days, EUW. SoloQ Master+: 268,631 games on the same patches. An amateur figure in gold clearly differs from soloQ.
At a glance
Four answers, each one opens its chapter.- What changes in tournaments3 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Top.Win rateDraftLength
- How to play itConqueror, then Stridebreaker, Phantom Dancer, and Mortal Reminder: the most played build in soloQ.



- In a compTakes its kills in duels first: more duels than 88% of top laners.FrontlineDuelistCCSplit-push
- With / againstBetter than expected against K'Sante in amateur play: +16.7 pts over 31 games, range above zero.+16.7 pt31 games
- In draftTaken at any point of the series.
What changes in tournaments?
3 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Top.
- Win rateWins less in amateur play
- Amateur
- 40.9%
- SoloQ
- 50.2%
- DraftPicked less often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 1.5%
- SoloQ
- 2.8%
- LengthLonger games in amateur play
- Amateur
- 29 min
- SoloQ
- 27.9 min
How to play it?
Conqueror, then Stridebreaker, Phantom Dancer, and Mortal Reminder: the most played build in soloQ.
Stridebreaker
Phantom Dancer
Mortal Reminder
Not collected in soloQ: starting items, 4th item, and skill order.
What does it bring to a comp?
Takes its kills in duels first: more duels than 88% of top laners.
- Takes its kills in duelstop12%33% · top laners: 28%
- Crowd control (CC)top15%1.3 · top laners: 0.8
- Absorbs damagetop19%1,262 · top laners: 970
Read on tournament games from 2026-04-15 to 2026-10-12 (44,638 games) · same reading as the draft review · compared with other top laners
What marks it
- Frontline
- Duelist
- CC
- Split-push
Like other top laners
- Damage in mid game
- Gold at 15 min
- Team damage
What it is not
- Few teamfights
- Carries its own kills
- No poke
Damage / min by phase · at equal gold
Rank 9 in lane, 27 in mid game and 21 in late game, out of 100 top laners.
Gold vs. direct opponent
At 20 min, ahead of 80% of top laners against the direct opponent.
Where it stands among top laners · every measure
0 ← less · median · more → 100- Damage in lane · rank 9 of 100 among top laners530 · median 599
- Damage in mid game · rank 27 of 100 among top laners831 · median 868
- Damage in late game · rank 21 of 100 among top laners977 · median 1,079
- Gold at 15 min · rank 68 of 100 among top laners+219 · median +119
- Gold at 20 min · rank 80 of 100 among top laners+486 · median +100
- Absorbs damage · rank 81 of 100 among top laners1,262 · median 970
- Plays teamfights · rank 10 of 100 among top laners49% · median 53%
- Takes its kills in duels · rank 88 of 100 among top laners33% · median 28%
- Lets allies carry kills · rank 19 of 100 among top lanersrank 19 of 100
- Crowd control (CC) · rank 85 of 100 among top laners1.3 · median 0.8
- Team damage · rank 71 of 100 among top laners23% · median 20%
With whom, against whom?
Better than expected against K'Sante in amateur play: +16.7 pts over 31 games, range above zero.
Best results
Ranked by the gap to expected in amateur play, at the lower bound of its interval, at most 5 per role. The other source is a reference.
Against
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
With
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
Matchups and allies
One group per role of the other champion, five cards first. The bar is the win rate range, the tick marks 50%; the colour of the gap gives our reading, it sorts nothing.
- K'Sante31 games58.1%gap +16.7 ptsSoloQ: 56.9% · 629 g
- Ornn24 games—SoloQ: 49.4% · 620 g
- Jax17 games—SoloQ: 57.6% · 938 g
- Olaf16 games—SoloQ: 52.7% · 421 g
- Malphite12 games—SoloQ: 48.6% · 502 g
- Gnar10 games—SoloQ: 50.0% · 606 g
- Gragas10 games—SoloQ: 49.1% · 375 g
- Shen10 games—SoloQ: 52.6% · 650 g
- Gwen9 games—SoloQ: 53.5% · 286 g
- Sion9 games—SoloQ: 51.7% · 321 g
- Camille8 games—SoloQ: 43.1% · 1,173 g
- Mordekaiser7 games—SoloQ: 49.3% · 456 g
- Ambessa6 games—SoloQ: 49.8% · 510 g
- Renekton6 games—SoloQ: 51.8% · 662 g
- Zaahen5 games—SoloQ: 53.3% · 426 g
- Jarvan IV28 games—SoloQ: 47.3% · 907 g
- Wukong27 games—SoloQ: 48.4% · 862 g
- Xin Zhao20 games—SoloQ: 51.0% · 261 g
- Vi18 games—SoloQ: 49.6% · 397 g
- Amumu10 games—SoloQ: 44.8% · 96 g
- Cho'Gath10 games—SoloQ: 49.7% · 580 g
- Nocturne9 games—SoloQ: 54.5% · 253 g
- Qiyana9 games—SoloQ: 48.2% · 1,112 g
- Sejuani9 games—SoloQ: 51.4% · 220 g
- Shyvana7 games—SoloQ: 54.8% · 438 g
- Lee Sin6 games—SoloQ: 50.9% · 1,064 g
- Skarner6 games—SoloQ: 51.4% · 218 g
- Trundle6 games—SoloQ: 49.2% · 59 g
- Shen5 games—SoloQ: 43.2% · 37 g
- Viego5 games—SoloQ: 51.4% · 909 g
- Ahri28 games—SoloQ: 47.8% · 1,185 g
- Viktor23 games—SoloQ: 46.6% · 861 g
- Syndra22 games—SoloQ: 49.1% · 1,083 g
- Orianna19 games—SoloQ: 54.2% · 445 g
- Hwei10 games—SoloQ: 47.8% · 437 g
- Akali9 games—SoloQ: 54.8% · 692 g
- LeBlanc8 games—SoloQ: 50.1% · 553 g
- Lissandra8 games—SoloQ: 48.8% · 516 g
- Aurora7 games—SoloQ: 50.6% · 421 g
- Cassiopeia6 games—SoloQ: 53.2% · 235 g
- Ryze6 games—SoloQ: 50.8% · 264 g
- Sylas6 games—SoloQ: 51.8% · 684 g
- Veigar6 games—SoloQ: 53.5% · 303 g
- Xerath6 games—SoloQ: 50.9% · 407 g
- Aurelion Sol5 games—SoloQ: 47.6% · 145 g
- Locke5 games—SoloQ: 48.9% · 1,044 g
- Yasuo5 games—SoloQ: 50.3% · 885 g
- Yone5 games—SoloQ: 52.2% · 882 g
- Yunara25 games—SoloQ: 49.6% · 1,652 g
- Kai'Sa23 games—SoloQ: 50.5% · 1,759 g
- Caitlyn22 games—SoloQ: 51.3% · 1,152 g
- Jinx18 games—SoloQ: 46.8% · 1,401 g
- Jhin15 games—SoloQ: 50.2% · 1,845 g
- Ashe14 games—SoloQ: 47.4% · 517 g
- Lucian12 games—SoloQ: 54.1% · 756 g
- Xayah12 games—SoloQ: 46.9% · 668 g
- Tristana11 games—SoloQ: 47.0% · 1,235 g
- Kalista10 games—SoloQ: 51.3% · 755 g
- Sivir9 games—SoloQ: 52.1% · 514 g
- Corki8 games—SoloQ: 53.5% · 230 g
- Ezreal7 games—SoloQ: 54.4% · 1,069 g
- Miss Fortune7 games—SoloQ: 54.0% · 424 g
- Zeri7 games—SoloQ: 49.5% · 709 g
- Nautilus32 games25.0%gap -12.8 ptsSoloQ: 48.2% · 1,246 g
- Milio22 games—SoloQ: 52.4% · 708 g
- Lulu21 games—SoloQ: 49.3% · 1,530 g
- Braum18 games—SoloQ: 47.4% · 803 g
- Rakan18 games—SoloQ: 51.0% · 674 g
- Leona15 games—SoloQ: 50.8% · 872 g
- Thresh15 games—SoloQ: 46.3% · 1,642 g
- Alistar12 games—SoloQ: 47.8% · 802 g
- Rell12 games—SoloQ: 51.9% · 668 g
- Seraphine10 games—SoloQ: 50.9% · 582 g
- Blitzcrank8 games—SoloQ: 49.8% · 723 g
- Nami8 games—SoloQ: 52.9% · 1,201 g
- Karma7 games—SoloQ: 52.8% · 926 g
- Renata Glasc6 games—SoloQ: 55.7% · 336 g
- Yuumi6 games—SoloQ: 52.1% · 524 g
Ban it or pick it?
Taken at any point of the series.
Pick rate as Top
Amateur tournaments, compared with soloQ- SoloQ Master+2.8%15,132 picks of 537,258ban 3.8% · patches 16.20 to 16.22
- Amateur tournaments1.5%154 picks of 10,100ban 3.9% · patches 16.20 to 16.22
- Pro0.2%5 picks of 2,258bans not published · patches 16.17 to 16.20

