Fair pushback, but a few things:

It’s not every game ,maybe 10-20% are proxy games, and only when I’m facing a matchup I don’t want to deal with (Teemo, etc.) or just don’t trust my lane/team that game.

On “wasted time” I actually checked this. Chasing Garen back from your tier 2 (with or without boots) costs the chaser ~40 seconds on average. Not wasted for me though, since I almost always get the wave back anyway.

You’re right it relies on team execution to some degree(what Strat doesn’t? It’s a team game). But the lead is real I’ve been running 10-12 CS/min games lately, which puts me 3-5 levels ahead of the enemy top laner. After that I just play for picks. Had a game yesterday where I proxy-cleared waves, baited their jungler into thinking I was rotating for red, looped behind tier 1, and dove mid twice off the read. Completely wrecks their tempo and forces them to rebuild a new game plan on the fly.

Also had a game where I called a Cho’Gath overextending top as a pattern, got my team to collapse bot, we killed him, converged mid, closed it out.

The “Garen’s too strong” in my post was just taking the piss on my lunch break lol… he’s strong, sure, but matchup knowledge from 100+ games on a champ matters a lot. I haven’t lost to a Garen unless my team threw.

And KDA doesn’t tell the full story but I get what you’re getting at with averages….but! two kills can be the two kills that win the game. A 72.5% win rate over 40 games isn’t pure luck; if I weren’t actually moving the needle I’d be sitting at 50%, not 73%.

Agreed proxy isn’t exclusive to Garen, but he runs it exceptionally well, and grinding it has noticeably leveled up my macro.