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During yesterday\u2019s pursuit of 150,000 IP, I had a game where I drew Corki.\u00a0 And because I didn\u2019t like Corki, I was game to trade him for just about anyone; much to my delight, there was someone else who didn\u2019t want who they drew, and so they traded me Garen.\u00a0 Despite my occasional displeasure of having to play a melee-tank meat-shield in ARAM, I embraced the opportunity to play as Garen this time, for some reason.<\/span><\/p>\n My team won decisively<\/a>, and despite the fact that I didn\u2019t have a genuine damage item (save for the passive damage by a Sunfire Cape<\/em>), I still contributed to the killing of opponents, because Garen is Garen.<\/span><\/p>\n I don\u2019t really play Garen, as I don\u2019t really play much top lane for the matter, as it pertains to current game meta.\u00a0 But I have a bro that I (used to)<\/em>\u00a0play with regularly that pretty much uses Garen in 99% of the games we play together, so I\u2019m fairly familiar with Garen in general.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Garen is considered the penultimate \u201cez mode for noobs\u201d champion, and is widely disliked by many in the\u00a0intelligent\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0logical-thinking<\/em>\u00a0League of Legends<\/em>\u00a0community, because of, for lack of a better term, how effective Garen is, with what many believe to be, without a proportionately necessary talent curve.<\/span><\/p>\n In other words, Garen is an effective champion that\u2019s fairly user-friendly, and has a kit that\u2019s pretty versatile in capability of handling a large variety of opponents.\u00a0 So naturally, people will dislike him.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s like Mustang owners that hate Corvettes; Mustangs are good, fast cars in their own right, and with some knowledge of wrench-work and motoring acumen, they can be outright god-like in performance and results.\u00a0 But a Corvette is pretty much all of that, and it can be done right off the dealer lot.<\/span><\/p>\n Practiced Riven, Jax, Darius, Nasus and other typical top-laning champions all have the capability to be completely absurd, in the hands of an experienced player.\u00a0 But I think if you were to take two beginners and give one any of the aforementioned champions, and the other Garen, the Garen would probably come out on top.\u00a0 Likewise, if you took an experienced top-laner, and paired them against an equivalently talented Garen player, the Garen just might be equally as dominating.<\/span><\/p>\n The best part about playing with a good Garen is that when a Garen starts winning, the opponents have an inordinately high chance of growing salty and resentful towards them.\u00a0 Not just because they\u2019re losing, but because they\u2019re losing to a Garen, whom they\u2019ll inevitably accuse of being \u201ceasy mode\u201d and \u201cnoob champion.\u201d\u00a0 Which begs to ask, if they\u2019re so good, why doesn\u2019t everyone use him then?<\/span><\/p>\n Anyway, this is getting to turn into too long of\u00a0love song<\/a>\u00a0about Garen.\u00a0 The point is that I had a tremendous amount of fun playing as Garen for this one particular game, because all I did was stack health and defense, dive into the enemy team, spin to win, and then walk out of the frays\u00a0with HP to spare<\/a>.\u00a0 Also spamming laugh the entire game, because Garen really\u00a0has the best laugh in the game<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n In a way, playing Garen is tremendously dangerous for players, because it cultivates lots of bad habits and an air of invincibility that no other champion really has.\u00a0 I can run in like a retard, distract and damage less-focused opponents (everyone) by spinning in circles, Q off any crowd-control effects and run out of the fight, laughing all the way, still alive.\u00a0 You tend to get punch-drunk when you repeatedly succeed at staving off death over and over again.<\/span><\/p>\n But damn if it isn\u2019t fun, with the right teammates and opponents just immature enough to grow resentful towards not just you for beating them, but at their own teammates, and the snowball of failure begins rolling downhill, and becomes enjoyable for the opposition.\u00a0 It\u2019s games like this one that makes me feel like Garen is like, Vin Diesel and Paul Walker combined in one.\u00a0 It\u2019s like if a cop pulled Garen over, Garen would be the one who could issue the cop a citation.<\/span><\/p>\n The best part about the game wasn\u2019t just the fact that the opponents blew up at each other in defeat, it was that when the smoke cleared and I left the post-game lobby after watching the enemy team implode, I had gotten multiple honorable opponent points.\u00a0 It\u2019s like my friends and I can\u2019t ever really believe how my bro gets so many honorable opponent points, despite the fact that all his opponents deride him for playing Garen, and I barely ever get any honorable opponent points, regardless of how well I do, or how civil I remain to everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n Instead, I spend an entire game playing like a retard, spamming laugh, and passive-aggressively gloating in the post-game lobby about how awesome I was, and I get rewarded with honorable opponent.<\/span><\/p>\n Why?\u00a0 Who knows.\u00a0 Because Garen.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" During yesterday\u2019s pursuit of 150,000 IP, I had a game where I drew Corki.\u00a0 And because I didn\u2019t like Corki, I was game to trade him for just about anyone; 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