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Garen vs Heimerdinger

Garen
vs
55.8%

over 226 games

Heimerdinger
Analyze a draft with Garen

Favorable matchup

Heavy AP damageHeavy pokeHeavy CCSplit push

Build vs Heimerdinger

Build adapted to this matchup

Recommended items for Garen: Stridebreaker, Phantom Dancer, Mortal Reminder, Berserker's Greaves, Force of Nature, Youmuu's Ghostblade, Dead Man's Plate, Infinity Edge.

Starting items

Doran's Shield
Health Potion

Core build

Stridebreaker
1
Phantom Dancer
2
Mortal Reminder
3

Standard

Berserker's Greaves
4AS
Force of Nature
5

Summoner spells

FlashDot83%
FlashTeleport7%

Anti CC

Mercury's Treads
4vs CC

Other options

Force of Nature
Youmuu's Ghostblade
Dead Man's Plate
Infinity Edge
Sterak's Gage
Executioner's Calling
Spear of Shojin
Serrated Dirk
Black Cleaver
Serpent's Fang
Lord Dominik's Regards
Voltaic Cyclosword
B. F. Sword
Hullbreaker
Maw of Malmortius
Randuin's Omen
Tiamat
Kaenic Rookern
Endless Hunger
Spirit Visage
Jak'Sho, The Protean
Death's Dance
Trinity Force
58.1% WR31 games
SorcerySorcery
Stormraider's SurgeStormraider's Surge
Axiom ArcanistAxiom Arcanist
CelerityCelerity
Gathering StormGathering Storm
ResolveResolve
Second WindSecond Wind
OvergrowthOvergrowth
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceHealth Scaling

Power Spikes

Strength by game phase

Heimerdinger's abilities

Passive, spells and ultimate

Hextech Affinity (P)

Gain Move Speed while near allied towers and turrets deployed by Heimerdinger.

Cooldowns

Cooldowns by spell rank

LevelQWER
31s11s11s–
61s11s11s1m40
91s10s11s1m40
111s9s11s1m25
161s7s11s1m10
181s7s11s1m10

Playing as Garen

Tips to maximize your impact

  1. Silence, spin, back off

    Trade with Decisive Strike (Q), then Judgment (E), and back off: the Decisive Strike silence stops your opponent from answering with spells.

  2. Stay closest to your opponent

    During Judgment (E), stay closer to your opponent than to their minions: the nearest enemy takes extra damage.

  3. Back off to regenerate

    After a trade, back off until Perseverance (passive) kicks in: without recent damage taken, you regenerate part of your health every second.

  4. Courage just before impact

    Activate Courage (W) just before the bulk of the damage: you first gain a shield and tenacity, then a longer damage reduction.

  5. Save your R to finish

    Save Demacian Justice (R) to finish: its true damage grows with the target's missing health.

Playing against Heimerdinger

How to counter and exploit weaknesses

  1. Destroy his turrets first

    Take down his turrets before you trade, with your minions' help: each H-28 G Evolution Turret (Q) builds up charge over time, then fires a stronger shot.

  2. Dodge the center of his grenade

    Get out of the center of CH-2 Electron Storm Grenade (E): that's where it stuns, and if it hits a champion, it fully charges his nearby turrets.

  3. All-in after his grenade

    Start your all-in or gank after CH-2 Electron Storm Grenade (E): it's his only stun, it has an 11-second cooldown, and he has no dash.

  4. Pull him away from his turrets

    Take your trades away from his turrets: they deactivate when he moves too far from them, and Hextech Affinity (passive) speeds him up near them.

  5. Back off from his giant turret

    Stay out of his giant turret's range for its 8 seconds: placed with UPGRADE!!! (R), it slows, deals area damage and is immune to CC.

Other Garen matchups

Patch 16.21.1