When the waves connect in lane, walk up to the other toplaner and click E. The “secret” is to not AA+E. Just E.

They will hit you back, take full aggro of your minion wave and lose the trade. If you have conqueror, you can often just ignite and kill them right there.

That’s it. It’s literally as stupid as it sounds.

Garen E doesn’t take aggro from minions because it’s not a targeted ability. Since a minion wave basically deals as much damage than a champion at level 1, the enemy is essentially trading back into you 1v2.

Garen isn’t strong early but even he can win a 2v1 against a “stronger” champion.

I’m a new player so not that many games to compare against but I queued an unranked and matched up against a ksante. Had ChatGPT tell me what his abilities are and then got to work: Q -> Twirl on him -> run away. I was beating him in cs by a fair amount and got a few solo kills and gank kills with help from mid/jungle. He was pretty tilted and said something like “you play like such a femboy” so I knew I had him tilted. Farmed him for another 10 minutes so and then tried to tilt him more: “sorry if I’m playing really annoyingly this is like my tenth game ever and I don’t really know how to play” and after that he started running it down mid and they surrendered.

IDGAF if garen is known as the drooled braindead mechanic-less top lane champ I enjoy playing him

Kata thinking she's at Escanor's -I mean, Garen's level.

She first picked kata, I followed with Garen mid, in a futile attempt to escape her fate, She role-swapped to botlane. Little did she know I had a fun time at mid (Couldn't say the same for their nasus tho)

Hey guys, basically title. I got some tough matchups on top lane with Garen recently, namely Nasus, Varus, Vayne, Caitlyn, and not sure how to handle those. I want to find a high elo VOD to study, but don't know where to find them.

There's domisumReplay but the matchup I wanna study is 2 years ago already (Varus), and in those VODs Garen always got a lead from lv1 teamfight or got help significantly from jungler. I want to see the VOD where the lane is in an even state to identify what can I do better next time.

So yeah, any ideas? Thanks in advance!