Hrm, looks like I won't get to use Garen this week as it seems when he's free someone grabs him every game. Guess we'll see.
Alistar
Caitlyn
Corki
Galio
Gangplank
Garen
Heimerdinger
Janna
Nocturne
Veigar
Frozen Mallet? OK, I'm curious, why exactly? With such a low attack speed (and little desire to use auto-attacks) I'm kinda surprised.
Lately I've been going Dorans Shield → Boots of Swiftness → Brutalizer → Force of Nature → Guardian Angel or Sunfire Cape → Infinity Edge → Yommu's Ghostblade (or sell Brutalizer for Last Whisper if they have tons of armor) → Warmogs
I'll swap when I buy FoN vs. GA/Sunfire depending on their team composition. In the game I played the other day where they were almost all AP magic damage I grabbed FoN right after my boots.
I've got the Dreadknight skin for Garen as well, pretty slick (my only custom skin ATM).
I need to try your build sometime since you have so much success. Was it Boots → Sunfire → FoN → Warmogs → Atmas → Warmogs?
Alistar
Caitlyn
Corki
Galio
Gangplank
Garen
Heimerdinger
Janna
Nocturne
Veigar
With Garen, I buy Doran's Shield first, because his passive with the regen helps him a lot with the regen from Doran's Shield, it's like getting 2 regens for one, and your health meter refills quickly.
What I buy next is Boots of Swiftness, then I get Sunfire Cape, and Atma's Impaler, then I buy the Frozen Mallet, then I get Warmogs to finish it off.
I'm pretty much invinicible when I play Garen once I get Atma's Impaler and the Frozen Mallet. Warmogs is really nothing more than win-more.
If the game is STILL going, I'd prolly invest in an Infinity Edge and a Guardian Angel.
Best I've had with Garen was 4.7k health, in one game.
I think I went 15-3 with Garen last night after talking to Kabob, who was going to go sleep after we finished talking.
I also have the Death Knight Garen skin, doubly sweet.
Garen is a really good character, you just have to focus less on what his damage output is, and focus more on his core strengths, which is he gets everywhere on the map really easily and has little problems chasing down others.
I think my summoner spells were Ghost and Exhaust.
Garen is incredibly hard to kill and with all that armor, mallet, and Atmas, you can take people down pretty easily, and of course, his ult is the ultimate finisher.
I've gotten triple kills with him.
Frozen Mallet? OK, I'm curious, why exactly? With such a low attack speed (and little desire to use auto-attacks) I'm kinda surprised.
Lately I've been going Dorans Shield → Boots of Swiftness → Brutalizer → Force of Nature → Guardian Angel or Sunfire Cape → Infinity Edge → Yommu's Ghostblade (or sell Brutalizer for Last Whisper if they have tons of armor) → Warmogs
I'll swap when I buy FoN vs. GA/Sunfire depending on their team composition. In the game I played the other day where they were almost all AP magic damage I grabbed FoN right after my boots.
I've got the Dreadknight skin for Garen as well, pretty slick (my only custom skin ATM).
With that build though you'll not have much late game against a fed carry with lifesteal items.
That build has 0 mr also which is important if you are tanking. A FON on garen is a very nice MR item because of both it's health regen + move speed bonus. Sunfire is good as you have, always one of the best first items on Garen. Then if the AD carry gets fed on their team, a Thornmail is a must.
If you have to choose between Warmogs over a good MR/Armor item, go them, the MR/Armor is much more important for a tank then straight up HP. Though yeah, If I am doing good with Garen and have my Sunfire/FON, I'll stack warmogs/Atma's for the hp and dmg.
I need to try your build sometime since you have so much success. Was it Boots → Sunfire → FoN → Warmogs → Atmas → Warmogs?