Garen Patch History

3 patches·1 buffed·2 nerfed

Mar 4, 2026

Garen is moderately popular but statistically underpowered, and we’d like it if he was as powerful as other straightforward top lane juggernauts. We’re continuing on the trend of making traditional fighter items more comparable to his crit builds and giving him better trading power before he has access to tools like Stridebreaker and Phantom Dancer.

Decisive Strike

Move speed durationBuff

1 / 1.65 / 2.3 / 2.95 / 3.61.4 / 1.95 / 2.5 / 3.05 / 3.6

Judgment

Damage per spinBuff

4 / 7 / 10 / 13 / 16 (+ 38 / 41 / 44 / 47 / 50% AD)4 / 7 / 10 / 13 / 16 (+ 40 / 43 / 46 / 49 / 52% AD)

Patch 26.14Nerf

Jul 15, 2026

Garen is dishing out too much justice across all skill brackets right now. So, we're going to tap down the Demacian Justice just a tad to make him a little less oppressive, while still rewarding well-timed target selection and inspiring fear in the hearts of those who shirk justice.

Democian Justice

True DamageNerf

150 / 250 / 350 (+ 25 / 30 / 35% of target's missing health)125 / 200 / 275 (+ 25 / 30 / 35% of target's missing health)

Patch 26.1Nerf

We want to continue to make space for non-crit Garen builds, so we're compensating the global critical strike damage increase and updating the calculation to properly discount bonus crit damage.

Judgement

Crit RatioNerf

80% of total (1.4/1.72x)30% of bonus (1.3/1.39x)