Passive modernization (and buff). W now grants damage reduction and tenacity briefly after activation, E AD ratio per spin up.

Garen provides his opponents with a healthy amount of counterplay as his opponents learn to kite. This leaves Garen with not that much skill expression of his own, making the “skill” in “skill matchup” pretty one-sided. We’re giving Courage a skill check to make Garen a little less straightforward, letting the beastliest Garens flex their muscles and show off. While we were on Garen, we took this opportunity to modernize his passive by shifting it from a 3-tier model to one that transforms once around the end of laning phase.



All in all, we still think there’s more that can be done to make Garen more compelling in the future, so take these changes as the start of a larger Garen conversation.

Passive - Perseverance

OUT OF COMBAT HEALTH REGEN 2%/4%/10% maximum health per 5 seconds (at levels 1/11/16) ⇒ 2%/8% maximum health per 5 seconds (at levels 1/11)

OUT OF COMBAT TIMER 9/6/4 seconds (at levels 1/11/16) ⇒ 9/4 seconds (at levels 1/11)

NEW DEMACIAN BOLDNESS Regeneration increases to 4/16% maximum health per 5 seconds when Garen is below 25/50% maximum health (at levels 1/11)

W - Courage

NEW CLARITY Now displays how much damage Courage is mitigating

NEW STEEL YOUR COURAGE Now grants Garen 60% damage reduction and tenacity for the first 0.75 seconds, returning to the normal 30% damage reduction for the remaining duration thereafter

E - Judgment