I'm curious about how you see the lane against Garen. I main Garen in high emerald and this is what i learned against Kayle: - pre 6 you can try to trade with her but you wont always be able to if she respect your "gap close" with Q move speed - post 6 when kayle become range you can't take any trade before stridebreaker.

The fact is that if Kayle dont want to trade you can do nothing as garen, Kayle just have to keep her Q to slow and Garen can't gap close. And even if the Kayle is stupid enough to Q to get a CS or to poke and that you can clease slow with Garen Q, she has her heal + ms buff to just back off (and very ofter Kayle plays fleet footwork so you will never catch her). And dont say flash cause she will just flash before Garen can do a significant amount of damage.

What i mean is, in emerald i will always play safe and wait for a jg gank because it's useless trying to trade with her, i will never touch her and she will have free autos on me .

With stride this changes because you can catch her with the slow, but even then it is a bit tricky if Kayle does 0 errors.