History Characters / LeagueOfLegendsGaren

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In season 1 of ''Teamfight Tactics'', Garen is a Tier 1 Noble Knight. His ability ''Judgement'', causes him to spin for several seconds, dealing magic damage to all nearby enemies and granting him temporary immunity to magic damage. He was removed in season 2. Though not a playable champ in season 3, Garen returns as the Mech-Pilot buff active, which combines three champs into a giant version of Mecha Kingdoms Garen sporting his ''Demacian Justice'' ability. Season 4 has him return as a Tier 1 Warlord Vanguard, once again using ''Judgment'', in his Warring Kingdoms skin. In season 5, he uses his God King Garen skin as a Tier 5 Dawnbringer God-King Knight; his God-King class is a unique trait he shares with Darius that grants them bonus damage against enemies with certain traits, but only if exactly one of them is deployed on your board. In Garen's case, the class grants him bonus damage against enemies with the Forgotten, Nightbringer, Coven, Hellion, Dragonslayer, Abomination, and Revenant origins. His ability was changed to ''God-Lion's Justice'', which calls down a massive sword to strike a large area around Garen's target. Enemies hit take magic damage based on their maximum health and have their magic resistance reduced for a few seconds, while Garen also shields himself based on his maximum health for a few seconds. In the ''Dawn of Heroes'' mid-set update, he gains a new unique origin named Victorious due to the removal of the God-King class, which empowers Garen's next basic attack to deal bonus magic damage based on the target's missing health whenever he scores a kill. In season 6, he uses his Battle Academia Garen skin and is a Tier 1 Academy Protector. His new ability, ''Decisive Strike'', can be cast while stunned, removing all crowd control effects on Garen and empowering his next basic attack to deal bonus percentage attack damage and additional physical damage based on his target's missing health. He was removed along with the Academy and Protector traits in the ''Neon Nights'' mid-set update, returning in season 8's ''Glitched Out!!'' mid-set update using his Mecha Kingdoms Garen skin as a Tier 4 Mecha: PRIME Defender. His ''Mecha Justice'' ability brings his sword down on his target, dealing physical damage and stunning all enemies in a 2-hex radius. In season 9, he returns to using his base skin as a Tier 3 Demacia Juggernaut. ''Judgement'' returns as his ability, though in this iteration it deals physical damage and no longer grants him magic damage reduction. The number of spins per second now scales with Garen's attack speed, while the spell's total duration scales with his ability power. He was removed in the ''Horizonbound'' mid-set update, returning in season 10 using his Demacia Vice Garen skin as a Tier 2 8-bit Sentinel. His ''Power-Up!'' ability grants him a stacking max health bonus for the rest of combat and causes his next basic attack to deal bonus physical damage scaling with both his attack damage and max health.\\

* BalanceBuff: Garen received a light rework during the season 5 juggernaut update to give him some more relevance than being a [[SkillGateCharacter beginner-friendly, but limited]] spin-to-win fighter, namely by adding a new dynamic to his ultimate that caused him to automatically mark the most dangerous enemy as "The Villain", giving him bonus damage and causing his ultimate to deal straight-up [[ArmorPiercingAttack true damage]] onto them (rather than magic damage of before). [[SubvertedTrope This would end up removed in patch 9.20]] as it was unpopular among opponents and Garen players alike, but he was allowed to keep the true damage of his ultimate and was given a few additional sidegrades[[note]]Namely by adjusting ''Judgement'' to scale off of his [[DumpStat formerly useless]] attack speed, finally providing justifiable incentive to build items with it[[/note]] to allow players better means to play as him.

* SkillGateCharacter: He's one of the champions introduced through the tutorials and a solid starting champion given his low IP cost. Garen has some decent innate damage and toughness as well as a lack of mana, making him beginner-friendly, and teaches players how to execute ability combos (''Decisive Strike, Courage'', then ''Judgment'') then finish off weakened foes with an execution ability (''Demacian Justice''). To players facing Garen, he also teaches them why face-checking brushes is a ''bad'' idea, to the point where the [[AscendedMeme official tutorial uses Garen ambushing Teemo from a bush using his]] SpinAttack to illustrate that point. He looses his effectiveness at higher skill-levels though, as experienced players are wise to his tricks and have a better idea of how to deal with him, and his lack of utility or mobility becomes crippling.

In ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra'', Garen is a 5-mana 5/5 Demacia Elite Champion with Regeneration that gives your other units +1/+1 for the round when summoned. When he strikes twice he levels up, gaining +1/+1 and giving you a Rally at the start of each round, allowing you to attack during the enemy's round. His signature spell is Garen's Judgement.\\

* His first ability, ''Decisive Strike'', increases Garen's movement speed and frees him from any slows. His next basic attack will deal bonus damage and briefly silence the target.

In season 1 of ''Teamfight Tactics'', Garen is a Tier 1 Noble Knight. His ability ''Judgement'', causes him to spin for several seconds, dealing magic damage to all nearby enemies and granting him temporary immunity to magic damage. He was removed in season 2. Though not a playable champ in season 3, Garen returns as the Mech-Pilot buff active, which combines three champs into a giant version of Mecha Kingdoms Garen sporting his ''Demacian Justice'' ability. Season 4 has him return as a Tier 1 Warlord Vanguard, once again using ''Judgment'', in his Warring Kingdoms skin. In season 5, he uses his God King Garen skin as a Tier 5 Dawnbringer God-King Knight; his God-King class is a unique trait he shares with Darius that grants them bonus damage against enemies with certain traits, but only if exactly one of them is deployed on your board. In Garen's case, the class grants him bonus damage against enemies with the Forgotten, Nightbringer, Coven, Hellion, Dragonslayer, Abomination, and Revenant origins. His ability was changed to ''God-Lion's Justice'', which calls down a massive sword to strike a large area around Garen's target. Enemies hit take magic damage based on their maximum health and have their magic resistance reduced for a few seconds, while Garen also shields himself based on his maximum health for a few seconds. In the ''Dawn of Heroes'' mid-set update, he gains a new unique origin named Victorious due to the removal of the God-King class, which empowers Garen's next basic attack to deal bonus magic damage based on the target's missing health whenever he scores a kill. In season 6, he uses his Battle Academia Garen skin and is a Tier 1 Academy Protector. His new ability, ''Decisive Strike'', can be cast while stunned, removing all crowd control effects on Garen and empowering his next basic attack to deal bonus percentage attack damage and additional physical damage based on his target's missing health. He was removed along with the Academy and Protector traits in the ''Neon Nights'' mid-set update, returning in season 8's ''Glitched Out!!'' mid-set update using his Mecha Kingdoms Garen skin as a Tier 4 Mecha: PRIME Defender. His ''Mecha Justice'' ability brings his sword down on his target, dealing physical damage and stunning all enemies in a 2-hex radius. In season 9, he returns to using his base skin as a Tier 3 Demacia Juggernaut. ''Judgement'' returns as his ability, though in this iteration it deals physical damage and no longer grants him magic damage reduction. The number of spins per second now scales with Garen's attack speed, while the spell's total duration scales with his ability power. He was removed in the ''Horizonbound'' mid-set update.\\

Individual Champions: [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsAatrox Aatrox]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsAhri Ahri]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsDarius Darius]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsEkko Ekko]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsFiddlesticks Fiddlesticks]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsGaren Garen]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsGraves Graves]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsJhin Jhin]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsJinx Jinx]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsKayle Kayle]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsLux Lux]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsMordekaiser Mordekaiser]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsMorgana Morgana]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsNunuAndWillump Nunu & Willump]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsPantheon Pantheon]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsSwain Swain]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsThresh Thresh]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsUdyr Udyr]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsViego Viego]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsYasuo Yasuo]]\\

[[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsA A]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsBToC B – C]] | '''D – F''' | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsGToH G – H]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsIToJ I – J]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsK K]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsLToM L - M]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsNToO N – O]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsPToR P – R]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsSaToSh Sa – Sh]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsSiToSy Si – Sy]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsTToU T – U]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsVToW V – W]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsXToZ X – Z]]]]]]-]

Individual Champions: [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsAatrox Aatrox]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsAhri Ahri]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsDarius Darius]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsFiddlesticks Fiddlesticks]] | '''Garen''' | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsGraves Graves]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsJhin Jhin]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsJinx Jinx]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsKayle Kayle]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsLux Lux]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsMordekaiser Mordekaiser]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsMorgana Morgana]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsNunuAndWillump Nunu & Willump]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsPantheon Pantheon]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsSwain Swain]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsThresh Thresh]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsUdyr Udyr]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsViego Viego]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsYasuo Yasuo]]\\
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* NominalVillain: He has a good heart, but his abiding to the anti-magic systems of Demacia creates a conflict of interest in his desire to defend his fellow Demacians, especially his little sister Lux. Between the Lux mini-series and ''The Mageseeker'', he slowly but surely begins to break away from this trait and is able to stand up for mages.

* NominalHero: He has a good heart, but his abiding to the anti-magic systems of Demacia creates a conflict of interest in his desire to defend his fellow Demacians, especially his little sister Lux. Between the Lux mini-series and ''The Mageseeker'', he slowly but surely begins to break away from this trait and is able to stand up for mages.

Garen's alternate skins include Sanguine Garen, Desert Trooper Garen, [[TheSquad Commando Garen]], [[BlackKnight Dreadknight Garen]], Rugged Garen, [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Steel Legion Garen]], [[{{Pirate}} Rogue Admiral Garen]], Warring Kingdoms Garen, [[GodEmperor God King Garen]], [[Series/MiamiVice Demacia Vice]] Garen, [[HumongousMecha Mecha Kingdoms Garen]], [[GoldenSuperMode Prestige Mecha Kingdoms Garen]], [[SuperheroSchool Battle Academia Garen]], and [[{{Wutai}} Mythmaker Garen]].\\