How to take a BRAINDEAD champ like Garen to Masters 

This man saw into the future by building tri force on garen

Shouting demacia while you attack doubles your damage

Honestly, just his reasoning and detail of his tactics make me know he deserves to be Master with Garen.

"This game is all about flipping the enemy's house over in 10 minutes." Spot on.

I didn't know Jimmy Fallon played League

Wait... you're telling me that you max e first on garen? Holy I've been maxing q for 2 years now

So, either I spin 2 win or q to nuke Lmao

This takes extensive research, props to the garen main who figured this out.

-Makes a video saying that there is NO BRAINDEAD champions, using Garen as Core examplo -Makes a new video calling Garen a BRAINDEAD Champion. DONG PLEASE?!

Thank God you didn't bring in TheGlacierr.

"Unlike in silver where somebody is probably checking Facebook" *That hit me*

People legit believe Triforce is bad on Garen, yet Vayne building rageblade is fine

Garen is a unit

I really like these kind of videos. These not only show you GARENNN!!! But also show you how to think outside of the box, which applies to every single champion. Very useful

*TYPICALLY*

Risti is a beast.

This garen main sounds like the guy talking fast at the end of commercials 🤣

".. down in silver, someone might be checking FB while I try and engage" LOL cant lie that made me chuckle.

Most of this information was givin to the Garen community years ago when MarineRevenge hit masters with Garen. He always maxed q and built triforce or ie/shiv . Sad to see new players get all the credit for inventing this play style when marine was doing it in Masters 3 seasons ago.

I really appreciate the research you put in all of these challenger and high elo episodes. Keep it up! ^^

8:38 Look at Garen's head... Creeps me out.

dang he said "450 IP" for a second i thought it was pre recorded last year omegalul. that brings back memories feelsbadman

got from wood to supreme god emperor rank in 1 day thanks to Garen the absolute unit.

I've talked to Riste on discord, been subbed to his youtube and twitch both for well over 3 years. This guy is amazing, on a not so amazing champion. It's really impressive.

When I first saw this video I thought to myself: "This guy is so adaptive, just look at the diversity in his keystone runes." Present day: Conqueror every single game, no matter the role, nor the matchup.

I KNEW PREDETOR GAREN WAS GOOD I INVENTED IT AND EVERYONE LAUGHED AT ME NOW IM BRONZE 4 GG

(4:05) I thought that everyone level up the Q first on Garen

Risti sounds like such a stand-up guy. That outro got me saying "aww"

Omg Ristiu That guy was famous for his honor videos telling people to be honorable and showing how to get a ribbon in old system. I miss this guy, ty for the video

It feels like ppl forgot how two play garen after 3 years. When I started playing this game (in season4) a friend teached me Garen for solo laning first. He said that Garen is mostly played as Tank but you can build some mixed items for a better splitpush. This friend teached me alot. We also discussed what I should max first and came to the conclusion E max gives you nothing but a slightly better wave clear (remember that was before the rework) the E itself got better with your champion lvl adding more spins and now I'm here watching videos about Garen just to see how much happened in those years that there are alot of new players. I stopped the video at 4:14 just to say the above and I wanted to add that the ghostblade has an active which wasn't even considered for one second. Continuing the video now. I should sleep and so should you happy new year! Peace

Its so interesting how far we can go with a Champion with a kit like this.

It's all about perspective, its not always dependent on what champion you use, it's all about how you use the champion.

as someone who abused Triforce Garen for a couple months, I want you to delete this video

This was so cool to see Risti featured here on Dong Huap's channel. Thank you both.

Thought there were no braindead champs.

I've been a Garen main since mid way season 3, interesting to see things brought up that I've been doing for years, such as spell blade abuse and regen beads. I'm a little surprised that he didn't mention all the auto cancels that Garen can abuse and also the power of celerity on a Garen Q max. However his item building is great, highly recommend checking out his stream to learn to build items and understand how builds adapt. I think its safe to say in higher elo Garen players are definitely not brain dead and I'm very glad to see some light shed on that note.

great video like always, I really appreciate your unique brand of league content

Your channel is actually so underrated it hurts, keep doing what your doing man

He got challenger with a win streak like a day ago

This might be your best interview on a high elo player. Keep them up please

My friends always questioned my Predator garen, and they laughed at me for thinking about garen as an assasin. Now i see that my thinking was really good

I think I need to add more on the spin to win part. Every since Garen's E scales with champion level as well as skill level, maxing E skill level becomes not rewarding as before and maxing Q simply deals more damage. When trading on lane Garen sometimes deactivates his E and get back to prevent agro of enemy minions while he almost always lands his Q first so the damage of his Q is fully applied. Apart from damage, maxing Q also increases the duration of the movement speed buff of his Q and the duration he can hold his lightened blade before he silences others. Maxing E doesn't have other buffs. And of course, to not push the minion wave is also a factor.

Shout out to my favorite streamer Risti!!! ♡

Dayum this Garen main really does in depth research. I can see his passion in main-ing Garen!

*Hey Dong Huap* , you probably wont read this, but I just wanted to say you are an amazing RU-vidr and you create amazing content. Your videos always make me laugh when I'm upset, or enjoy when Im with my friends, and I have learnt so much from you not only about league, but about so many other things in life. I wanted to thank you for everything over these past years. Your channel is so underrated, and I believe you deserve at least 3 million subs. Also, if you cant start streaming again, please at least make more videos! I am still just a student so I don't have money, but I promise to support you however else I can! Keep up the amazing work !!! :)

typically jax players are typically new to this typical game when they typically sit at the tower typically waiting for the minion wave

Garen : I'm the easiest champion in League Yuumi : Hold my fish

I wrote an article on rejuvenation beads at the start of the season. 4 paragraphs! He is absolutely right.

"wow max Q is better" It's always better, like maybe only jax and panth force a E max out of garen.

big up Risti, so happy he was in this video :)

isn't q maxing with grasp giving you amazing lane trading and allow you to dominate the lane most of the time

I love garen because he’s a lot more mobile than you think. He may not have a blink/dash gap closer but his Q is awesome. It speeds you up when you proc it and it speeds you up when you land it, paired with the movement speed from triforce or cleaver and deadmans you’re just constantly sprinting around your enemies and it feels super fluid.

Risti looks like a buff Gbay99

Wow this video is ancient. I'm just here because someone mentioned this video in his stream today. Everyone now buys triforce on Garen, nice to see how the community has changed :D Riste is an influence to us all. For Demacia!

Fun fact: Risti used to be called ristiuMMask and he is one of the main reasons me and a lot of other players got the honor crests under the old system. I am very happy to know he got to Masters. Keep it up!

that makes so much sense now. I have been using new runes and this just makes it so much easier in my experimenting

Imagine if he had a real weapon, like a lantern.

Vids like these are super cool and informative. Earned a sub.

Trinity force 3 patches ago? Clearly these people never heard of Garen season 1 with phantom dancer, trinity and infinity edge....

First game I tried this strategy I had to lane against a GP. Gave him lvl 1 FB lol... Ended up carrying hard late. That fake spin for CS into Q trade is fucking amazing. Great vid keep it up!

This is the same guy who made a video about how there are no brain dead champs

I just wanted to make the viewers aware, he is building Bamis Cinder in order to activate phase rush. It takes 3 individual attacks to activate, so the area damage counts as one. This negates the need for the awkward auto attack between q and e. Don't just build cinder for wave clear, it will ruin your creep control.

Thought it was graves in the thumnail for a second

'This video helped me out a ton. I always thought that Garen was a good champion to learn the basics. I've been stuck high gold low plat level for while now. This is what I needed to push me further. Thanks to playing champs like Garen, I learned to rely on skills that exist across all the champions I play. I checked the map more before over extending, I became less dependent on warding and more so on intuition. The flow of the game was much easier to read and understand thanks to it.

Let's wait for a garen player to say they're better than literally the best garen

love all your vids man i suggested them to my brother and friends i just miss seeing you on the cam

Just started to play garen!This video helped a lot!

10:25 glacial 10:35 phase rush 10:42 mid predator

"I never rage" O_O How do they let you through airport security when you are carrying that Bomb around???

Thanks Dong Huap for the informative vid! I recently got the god king garen skin and was looking at new ideas to bring garen into ranked.

Edit: To CHALLENGER 507LP

His name is Riste and because of this misspelling your link doesn't actually take us to his Twitch. The thought is there, but can you please correct this?

Pepega :mega: AM BEYBLADE Pepega :mega: FLASH QUEUE IGNITE Pepega :mega: DEMACIAAAAAAAAAAAA Pepega :mega: +50 +50 +50 +50 +50 +50 +50 +50 +50 +50 +50 +50 +50 +50 +50 +50 +50 +50 +50 FULL HEALTH

As a guy who doesn't play or watch league of legends, but used to play dota, this was a very well put together video.

why didn't u invite that washed up garen Glacierr

This guy is a genius. Taking Garen to master is like picking a chevy cobalt and finishing at podium in a F1 race.

I just realize he is ristiuMMask

I've been playing LoL for about a month now and my choice of Champion was Garen. I just picked him up without knowing anything about him and he's proven to be a good champ to learn the game with. My usual build is "Black Cleaver->Sterak's Gaze->Revenous Hydra->Warmog's Armor->Spirit Visage->Dead Man's Plate" This was the build that was suggested to me by a fellow player and she said that it's best for Garen. What I feel though, that while this build makes Garen Annoyingly Tanky for the enemy team, it's also a long process to build all of them. And all the while you're making these items, your AD is increasing with other team's ability to shred your Armor etc. So, this build is very non-exciting if I must say. However I'm experimenting with a AD monster Garen for a while. And that build looks like, "Black Cleaver->Trinity Force->Berserker Greaves->Stormrazor->Infinity Edge->Revenous Hydra" This build gives Garen so much AD it's ridiculous and it makes garen really fun to play! And it also gives garen a decent amount of health, (no armor and very less health regen though. On a a third note you can make a balanced Garen, That might look something like this. "Black Cleaver->Sterak's Gaze->Revenous Hydra" then make Warmog's armor if you're up against melee or spirit visage if against mages. Then make Trinity Force as fifth item. and as your sixth item make any damage increasing item like Stormrazor, Infinity edge or death's dance. A 4th comp will be like this "Black Cleaver->Sterak's Gaze->Revenous Hydra->Warmog or spirit visage->Guardian Angel->Sunfire cape" Let me know how guys feel about this or if I can change it in any way.

A lot of this kind of "remarkable players" have something in common : They get their goals in the NA soloq..

can we get an updated version of this video please.

No, that's not how you take a braindead champion to masters, that's just garen.

that really amazing from him to share tips like that

Bruh I be getting lit with garden everyday homies what you mean?

im lpaying lol for 7 years and garen always was and is till this day my 1# champion and i always did play him like this guy ,i maxed Q i didn't go the traditional way :D oh boy

why does he sound like redmercy

the idea of play thinking outside the box apply to any champ, not only garen... but those builds sonds quite nice

I'd kms if i played over 1400 games of garen lol

I used to be into mechanically hard champions for 2 seasons when i first started playing the game (which is ss6) and streamers who main them. I was a riven main for a long time with a champion pool of only mechanically hard champs to play because i felt fun playing them. But now in ss8 i'm way more into champs that has a very chill gameplay and also chill streamers like heisendong,foggedftw2 so i switch all my focus on heimerdinger and tryndamere and found them oppressively OP and fun ashell. Now thanks to Donghuap i have discovered a new boy for my games and also another awesome streamer!!!!

"Garen has no escapes" The hell do you mean? Whenever I am close to killing him, he can just use the speed boost from his Q and his W defense to escape, even if I use flash, he can just run.

This is so needed for me rn I'm a Garen main, plat 5 hard stuck... I don't know what to do anymore.. I hope this video will help me

This video just confirms what I firmly believe... "rank" in League means nothing and isn't a just scale of your potential. I've seen bronze Garens beat diamond Gnars and Rivens just because they knew how to use him. People are slaves to the meta and can't think outside the box. 3 months ago Heimer bot, Garen mid and Taliyah jungle would've gotten you reported. Today everyone is doing it simply because they see "pros" doing it. This game is trash and the community is even worse, I don't even know the word to describe it. Autistic sheep is too kind.

I'm so glad you made this video, I was just looking at getting back into League lol

I use to main garen.... easy to climb on low elo but right now everyone is playing him or banning him.... soo sad now i can't play him. Please don't play garen its noob champ no skills braindead no fun... don't play garen guys

Quite informative and pretty cool. I tend to think, that the "best" builds, tried and tested, are not as optimal as people think. On a sidenote: I think even in high elo, there are the matchups Garen just auto-wins most of the time. Due to being so stat-checky, he is bound to have some matchups that just cannot do much vs Garen. For that alone, he should be a way more respected counter-pick.

Finally, another Garen player who understands that Tri-Force is not a useless item on Garen. The mana is barely being wasted, as it's only 250. All the other stats and passives make the item worth purchasing. I often combine it with Black Cleaver and a full tank build for any Garen games that I play.

I've always maxed Q but for a much simpler reason. Short trades tend to go better than long trades so being able to get in that quick hit and get out usually feels like a better deal.

very informative video about garen wish there was a similar video for each champ

Thanks Dong! Excellent vid bro

0:20 when the op comes back to haunt you... “he can’t hurt me any more”

5:53 So if i don't have a skin, i'm new to the champ? i told myself i wouldn't spend anymore money on league.. but when you put it what way..