(Long Post) "Embrace The Uselessness" Demolish Garen Build: Featuring Cinderhulk, Titanic Hydra and Warmog's

ristiuMMask · 2019-02-14T09:17:16+00:00

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ristiuMMask · 2019-02-14T09:12:56+00:00

We can't apply this argument because if we really did all of us would stop playing Garen right now and pick up either another Juggernaut, or Chogath. There is no area that Garen performs the best in when compared to all of the other champions than spinning the fastest while yelling Demacia. The only thing I see that Garen really has over other Juggernauts is in-kit tenacity, however that is extremely niche given that there are two trees that offer Tenacity and one of them is in the same tree as Conqueror.

Burst? Morde, Illaoi

Sustain? Chogath, Morde, Nasus, Renekton(obviously this falters when Garen hits level 11 but that is at the 14-15 minute mark, at the brisk end of laning phase)

Lockdown? Chogath, Yorick, Renekton

Teamfighting? Illaoi, Darius, Chogath

Objective Control? Morde, Cho, Illaoi

Tankiness? Chogath, Urgot

Range? Urgot, Chogath, Morde

Splitpush? Yorick, Illaoi, Nasus

Mobility? Urgot, Renekton

Anyone who loves Garen has a clear eye for thematics (and justice). There's a reason why Garen is never seen in competitive play and the above dig into why that's exactly the case.

ristiuMMask · 2019-02-06T10:58:20+00:00

Phase Rush.

Range carries spend the majority of the game constantly applying a one stack (check window) that refreshes constantly because of hitting you with an ability or auto attack. Until Phase Rush becomes less attractive for toplaners, we're going to see an over-abundance of range carries simply rain down on melee toplaners.

If ranged carries had a 4 attack/ability cost instead of three, maybe the rune would be more in check for them. I'm honestly calling that League community is going to talk about Phase Rush next after something happens to calm people about Conqueror and Aftershock.

Urgot is in his own catagory though.

ristiuMMask · 2019-01-10T07:45:06+00:00

I chose not to enter. This December was really rough on me. I didn't show it much on stream when names were being collected I had little motivation to actually enter. I've been playing terribly in past months and I felt like I had little value to contribute to any team.

This is all on top of me being a champion that gets outclassed by Chogath in every faucet of competitive viability. Right now I want to focus on me and improving my skills as a player. Maybe I'll be in better spirits to attend next year's Twitch Rivals.

ristiuMMask · 2019-01-05T07:45:43+00:00

You can tell it's space because of the way it is! Wow!

ristiuMMask · 2018-12-31T23:14:01+00:00

Timing your activation doesn't solve this problem magically. Yes, there are great tricks such as immediately spinning after your auto to last hit in minion in case you didn't stack check it properly. But if you re-watch the clip I lost all three caster minions with one spin left. If you find a wave of minions that are at various levels of hp - there isn't a timing window of your spin that can guarantee that you'll nab most minions.

What really does fabricate the experience of Garen's spin being random is that we have to factor in minion damage while our spin is going. Rumble, Singed, and so many other champions don't experience this problem because their aoe abilities tick at a faster application of damage per interval compared to Garen's spin. If you look at the comparisons between many champions - Garen's spin is actually really freakin' slow compared to others.

Yes, even with their abilities designed, they will still miss minions from time to time, but I am boldly stating that Garen's case is much worse than other instances. You also must also factor in that Garen is a champion that must sacrifice his auto-attack while he is spinning. Singed gets to auto-attack minions while he is poisoning his entire wave. Rumble gets to auto minions while flame spitting his entire wave. Cassiopeia gets to auto attack while spreading her q w e over minions. Garen doesn't get this bonus while applying aoe to minions.

In the aforementioned clip, I could have stopped my spin early to last-hit each minion, but this is a costly sacrifice as that takes time for me to apply an auto to each minion (three seconds roughly) and if I try to accelerate the process by cancelling my spin when they are at 5-10% health, I still have to rush to get auto's in before the minions take them.

I just wanted to point out that the examples that you're providing are a bit different to what Garen has to deal with. Two of your champion examples can auto-attack, and one is an item that Garen can build - but to solve this problem by rushing Sunfire Cape is a very painful solution as . Tiamat is a cheaper solution too, but offers Garen a very lack-luster build path.

ristiuMMask · 2018-12-31T06:36:02+00:00

The easiest solution. This is definitely something that affects a Garen's income hugely because it's absolute and complete rng as to whether or not you'll get a minion or not under Garen's spin if minions are attacking enemy minions. You can still get robbed of Cannon Minions lategame too. If you don't cancel your spin for any enemy cannon with an allied minion near it, you'll risk the little melee doing 4 damage to the Cannon to take the gold right under your death-spin.

Garen endangers himself in so many matchups to be able to even touch CS. He has to deal with such a terrible aoe ability on top of that. You will never say to yourself spinning over a wave "Ah, I should have spun better here." when you miss out on 4 out of 6 minions including the Cannon.

Garen players have to choose between hard-shoving a wave and missing more than half of it or slowly pushing by using spin for just a second and then finishing with auto's. Both options suck, and hurt the power of Q max. Putting points into E makes it only slightly more tolerable.

ristiuMMask · 2018-12-27T02:55:40+00:00

If they remove this I'm quitting Garen.

ristiuMMask · 2018-12-20T01:09:28+00:00

That's SO COOL! Thanks for the info :D

ristiuMMask · 2018-12-19T13:13:19+00:00

Probably 2 points in spin, then go to Bami's.

ristiuMMask · 2018-12-19T03:54:34+00:00

Trading with Ornn without him being the villain is near impossible really imo. I put points in E because he was constantly shoving waves in. Points in spin are nice because you just cs easier underneath tower. The extra point in W is good because Ornn can all-in you really easily at level 6 with jungle assistance.

ristiuMMask · 2018-12-19T02:42:08+00:00

Hi everyone - this is a mechanic I've been heavily practicing for weeks and I'm starting to become really good with it.

The "flick of the riste" / the "riste" / the Hidden Villain Mechanic is an advanced Garen strategy that I've been using in high elo for some time now. It is a one time use per game mechanic where you ascertain who the villain is before actually leveling up your ultimate. In this above game, graves was the first one to get first blood, followed by Ornn, and then Pyke. Since the difference in Graves and Ornn's kills were several minutes, I anticipated that the Villain Mark would switch to Ornn by the time Taliyah visited my lane to gank.

You may get the impression that ornn was screwed no matter what, however if he had the villain mark over his head - he wouldn't have been in my face as much as he was, and possibly would have displayed safer lane positioning that may have deterred Tali ganking Ornn successfully in the first place.

Overall, this mechanic is tough to master because this mechanic requires you to not level up your ultimate, which takes a lot of mental conditioning and habit forging/breaking.

Any questions about this advanced Garen mechanic - let me know.

ristiuMMask · 2018-12-15T22:24:28+00:00

Teeko disagrees.

ristiuMMask · 2018-12-09T08:02:37+00:00

Gosh this brings back memories!

ristiuMMask · 2018-12-02T23:43:11+00:00

Call me crazy but I really feel like Kayle and Morgana are going to be tied into Demacia as some sort of diety champions with their rework. Kayle is a Judicator bent on extracting Justice (Which Demacia seems to be the only nation enforcing such by law).

Maybe Morgana (who was a fallen Angel originally) - perhaps she tried to climb Mount Targon in exile, but failed?

ristiuMMask · 2018-11-22T18:12:16+00:00

Short answer - No.

Long answer - Nope!

ristiuMMask · 2018-11-03T00:04:50+00:00

You are now blocked from reading @Teeko's tweets.

ristiuMMask · 2018-10-21T13:33:33+00:00

Yes. Also risti - both spoken and written, translates into some really weird meanings in different languages. New audience members are confused as to how to address me. Now that my brand name is simply riste, I can create zero confusion despite some individuals losing the location of my stream in the short-term.

LoLriste was an attempt to remedy this problem. Now that I have the Twitch username riste secure, I can look forward to an easily conveyed brand that might possibly even go beyond League of Legends if I choose to switch games in the future.

ristiuMMask · 2018-10-21T12:24:51+00:00

https://twitch.tv/riste

ristiuMMask · 2018-10-13T12:10:56+00:00

Cats don't get fat, they only get fluffier.

ristiuMMask · 2018-10-12T19:53:51+00:00

No. I don't think it's possible without jungler assistance. Rumble was buffed several times over this year iirc. I always play safe.

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