LEAGUE CLASSIC CHAMPION RECORD
Garen
Fighter · Tank
Garen rewards patient trades, clean target selection, and decisive finishes. This record now includes a community cross-check of his Classic stats and tooltips, while build recommendations remain in a clearly labeled match-test queue.
PLAYSTYLE OVERVIEW
Win the trade before you chase the finish.
Garen's readable kit makes him a useful foundation page for the archive: every recommendation can be tied to a lane problem, a defensive window, or a finishing threshold instead of an unexplained item list.
- Primary lane
- Top lane
- Difficulty
- Straightforward
- Identity
- Durable melee fighter
- Profile type
- First data record
CLASSIC BASE STATS
A usable record, with its evidence state attached.
ABILITY RECORD
Rank-by-rank Classic values, not modern defaults.
Every number below carries the same community cross-check status as the base-stat sheet.
Perseverance
9 sec triggerAfter avoiding champion damage and hostile champion abilities for 9 seconds, Garen begins regenerating health. This is the lane-reset engine behind short, patient trades.
Decisive Strike
8 sec cooldownRemoves slows, grants movement speed for 1.5–4.5 seconds, and empowers the next attack. Use it to create a clean trade window or interrupt a response.
Courage
24 / 23 / 22 / 21 / 20 sec cooldownPassively increases the value of bonus armor and magic resistance by 20%. Activate before the opponent's most important damage or control window.
Judgment
13 / 12 / 11 / 10 / 9 sec cooldownA sustained spin for wave control and close-range damage. Garen can pass through units while spinning, but is slowed when moving directly through them.
Demacian Justice
160 / 120 / 80 sec cooldownA finishing strike that becomes more threatening as the target loses health. The damage type is recorded as magic here; an independent client capture remains the final verification gate.
BUILD TEST QUEUE
Historical candidates to test—not a fake solved build.
The archive found a plausible Season 3-style baseline. It stays provisional until its lane purpose, recall timing, and matchup swaps are tested in the current Classic client.
Doran's Shield or Cloth Armor + potions
Compare safe sustain into poke with early physical mitigation into repeated basic attacks.
Phage + Boots breakpoint
Test whether health, attack damage, and movement access create a more reliable lane reset than rushing defense.
Sunfire Cape → Atma's Impaler → defensive health
Measure wave control, durability, and health-to-damage conversion before treating this historical line as a default build.
Magic defense vs AP · anti-crit armor vs marksmen
Keep the last slots responsive to the enemy damage profile instead of publishing one six-item answer.
EDITORIAL GATE
What must be true before this page says “verified”.
- 01Cross-checkedBase stats and rank-by-rank tooltips recorded from a community live-client archive
- 02CompletePatch 26.15 label, evidence state, and Aug 11 review date attached
- 03PendingCapture the same values independently inside the live Classic client
- 04PendingTest starting items, first recall, and core hypotheses across real matchups
Sources
Official context first.
Riot's patch 26.15 notes Riot's League Classic dev blog Riot Data Dragon documentation
Riot confirms the Classic release context. Champion-level values retain their visible verification status until an independent live-client check is complete.