Garen

25.11 · May 29, 2025

• General
• Updated recommended items.
• Perseverance
• Bug Fix: Tooltip now displays one decimal place in the health ratio instead of none/rounding to the nearest integer which would be slightly inaccurate. (Actual value was not affected.)
• Courage
• Damage reduction changed to 25 to 41% from 30% at all ranks.
• Cooldown reduced to 22 to 12 from 23 to 15.
• Removed: No longer grants 10% bonus armor and 10% bonus magic resistance at maximum stacks.
• Tooltip now displays the amount of armor and magic resistance gained before explaining the stacking mechanic.
• Bug Fix: Restored success VFX particles when mitigating crowd control with the gained tenacity.
• Judgment
• AD ratio per spin increased to 36 to 44% AD from 36 to 40% AD.
• Judgment is now modified by 80% of the caster's total critical strike damage instead of 150% of Judgment's base damage.
• Base critical damage reduced to 140% from 150%.
• Infinity Edge bonus critical damage reduced to 32% from 40%.
• Cooldown reduced to 9 to 6 from 9 at all ranks.
• Removed: No longer has an additional base damage per spin of 0.8*(x-1) for 9;then + 0.2*x.
• Removed: Recast no longer reduces its cooldown by its remaining duration.
• Removed: No longer deals 150% damage against non-epic monsters.
• Bug Fix: Duration no longer sometimes illegally extends by up to 0.25 seconds (depending on game tick), causing another spin beyond the designated limit.
• Bug Fix: Cooldown no longer sometimes improperly extends by up to 0.25 seconds (depending on game tick) when recasting to end the ability early.
• Bug Fix: Tooltip now properly calculates critical damage.
• Demacian Justice
• Base damage reduced to 150 to 350 from 150 to 450.

25.8

• Decisive Strike
• Bug Fix: No longer causes the target to illegally survive at 0 health if they had a method to resurrect active and blocked the applicable effect with a spell shield.

25.6

• Judgment
• Base critical strike damage reduced to 150% from 175%.

14.9

• Stats
• Selection radius increased to 120 units from 75.

14.2

• Courage
• Damage reduction duration changed to 4 seconds at all ranks from 2 to 5.
• Judgment
• AD ratio per spin increased to 36 to 40% AD from 32 to 40% AD.

13.8

• Stats
• Base armor increased to 38 from 36.
• Base attack damage increased to 69 from 66.

13.5

• General
• Bug Fix: Mythmaker Garen now has a separate SFX when attacking turrets.

13.4

• General
• New splash artwork for Rugged Garen.

13.3

• General
• Bug Fix: Voice line for killing an enemy Darius now properly triggered again.
• Judgment
• Bug Fix: Tooltip for its recast now displays updated information.

12.19

• Judgment
• Critical strike damage increased to 175% from 158%.

12.10

• Stats
• Base health increased to 690 from 620.
• Health growth increased to 98 from 84.
• Armor growth increased to 4.2 from 3.
• Magic resistance growth increased to 1.55 from 0.75.
• Courage
• Base shield reduced to 65 to 145 from 70 to 170.
• Shield health ratio reduced to 18% bonus health from 20%.

11.21

• Decisive Strike
• New Effect: Now trigger spell effects when dealing damage.

11.14

• Decisive Strike
• Bonus movement speed increased to 35% from 30%.
• Demacian Justice
• Target's health ratio increased to 25 to 35% of target's missing health from 20 to 30%.

11.9

• Courage
• Maximum stacks increased to 150 from 120.
• Bonus resistances per stack reduced to 0.2 from 0.25.
• Maximum bonus resistances unchanged.

11.6

• Judgment
• Possible Bug: Global critical strike damage interpretation reworked, Judgment crit bonus damage increased to +58% from +33%.

11.2

• Judgment
• Bug Fix: Number of spins now properly accounts for the bonus attack speed gained from Trinity Force Mythic passive.

11.1

• Stats
• Base magic resistance reduced to 32 from 32.1.

10.23

• Judgment
• Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where preseason's global critical strike damage reduction nerfed Judgment crits from +33% to +8%.

10.18

• Courage
• Bug Fix: No longer increases his base armor and magic resist.

10.7

• Perseverance
• Cooldown increased to 8 seconds from 7.
• Decisive Strike
• Bonus movement speed duration changed to 1 to 3.6 seconds from 1.5 to 3.5.

10.6

• General
• Recommended items updated.
• Stats
• Magic resistance growth reduced to 0.75 from 1.25.
• Judgment
• Critical strike damage reduced to 33% from 50%.

10.4

• Decisive Strike
• AD ratio increased to 50% AD from 40% AD.
• Courage
• New Effect: Now passively gains an additional 10% bonus armor and 10% bonus magic resistance after reaching maximum stacks.
• New Effect: Now has a base shield strength of 70 to 170.
• Shield health ratio changed to 20% bonus health from 10% maximum health.
• Judgment
• New Effect: Now deals 150% damage against non-epic monsters.

10.3

• Decisive Strike
• Bug Fix: Is now an unstoppable basic attack.

10.2

• Decisive Strike
• Bug Fix: Is no longer blocked by spell-shielded champions.

9.24

• Judgment
• Additional spins per attack speed reduced to 1 spin per 25% bonus attack speed from 1 spin per 20% bonus attack speed.
• Base damage per level reduced to 0.6*(x-1) for 9;then + 0.2*x from 0.8*(x-1) for 9;then + 0.2*x.

9.23

• Decisive Strike
• Bug Fix: If the attack is canceled due to losing vision of his target, he's no longer locked out of casting Judgment until the empowered attack window ends.

9.21

• Judgment
• Base damage per spin reduced to 4 to 20 from 8 to 24.
• Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where he would sometimes get an extra spin.

9.20

• Stats
• Attack speed growth increased to 3.65% from 2.9%
• Base health increased to 620 from 616.28.
• Health growth reduced to 84 from 84.25.
• Perseverance
• Health regeneration changed to 1.5;1.7;1.9;2.1;2.3;2.5;3.3;4.1;4.9;5.7;6.5;7.3;8.1;8.5;8.9;9.3;9.7;10.1 of his maximum health from 2;8.
• Removed: Regeneration no longer doubles while below 25;50 of his maximum health.
• Cooldown changed to 7 seconds at all levels from 9;4.
• Removed: Non-epic monsters no longer interrupt regeneration before level 11.
• Decisive Strike
• New Effect: No longer has a static delay of 0.5 seconds. Now scales with his attack speed, behaving more similarly to a basic attack reset.
• Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where when he is slowed, Decisive Strike's lockout time dramatically increased.
• Undocumented: No longer triggers on-attack effects on jump (i.e Statikk Shiv).
• Undocumented: Statikk Shiv can now critically strike when used with Decisive Strike.
• Courage
• Resistances per stack reduced to 0.25 from 0.33.
• Resistances cap reduced to 30 from 50.
• Minion kills to max stacks reduced to 120 from 150.
• New Active Effect: Grants a 10% of maximum health shield for the first 0.75 seconds.
• Removed: No longer reduces damage by 60% for the first 0.75 seconds.
• Judgment
• Number of spins changed to 7 plus 1 per 20% bonus attack speed from 5 to 10.
• Only counts bonus attack speed from items and levels.
• Base damage per spin reduced to 8 to 24 from 14 to 30.
• New Effect: Now has an additional base damage per spin of 0.8*(x-1) for 9;then + 0.2*x.
• AD ratio per spin reduced to 32 to 40% AD from 36 to 40% AD.
• Removed: No longer deals 33% bonus damage when hitting a single target.
• New Effect: Now deals 25% bonus damage per tick to the nearest enemy.
• Hits needed to shred armor increased to 6 from 4.
• New Effect: Now grants stacks of Conqueror on each spin.
• Demacian Justice
• Removed: No longer marks the enemy with the most kills in the last 5 minutes as the Villain. Basic attacks and Judgment no longer deal 1% of the Villain's maximum health as bonus true damage. Demacian Justice's damage is no longer converted to true damage against the Villain.
• New Effect: Now grants vision of the target for 1 second.
• Damage type changed to true from magic.
• Base damage reduced to 150 to 450 from 175 to 525.
• Health ratio reduced to 20 to 30% of the target's missing health from 28.6 to 40%.

9.7

• Courage
• Bonus resistances per kill increased to 0.33 from 0.25.
• Maximum bonus resistances increased to 50 from 30.
• Total unit kill required increased to 150 from 120.
• Cooldown reduced to 23 to 15 seconds from 24 to 20.
• Active duration reduced to 2 to 5 seconds from 2 to 6.

9.1

• Decisive Strike
• New Effect: Ability icon border now shows the remaining time for the empowered attack and movement speed.

8.17

• Decisive Strike
• Base damage reduced to 30 from 30.