- +400 Max Health
- +40 Attack Damage
- +20 Ability Haste
Sunder: Dealing physical damage to a champion reduces their Armor by 6% for 6 seconds, stacking 4 times for 24% reduction.
Rage: Gain 20 Movement Speed when you deal physical damage. When moving toward enemy champions with 4 Sunder stacks, gain 40 Move Speed. Ranged champions gain halved values.
- +150 Max Health
- +50% Health Regen
- +20 Armor
- +45 Move Speed.
- +425 Max Health
- +25 Attack Damage
- +25 Ability Haste
Spellblade: After using an ability, your next attack within 10 seconds deals (10% melee / 7% ranged) of target’s maximum health as bonus physical damage. If the target is a champion, heal for (6% melee / 2.5% ranged) of the target's maximum health. (1.5s Cooldown) Damage is reduced vs structure.
Stoneplate (Active): Gain a base shield that absorbs damage equal to 15% of max Health. Every 1 bonus Armor or Magic Resistance you have increases the shield by 0.1%, up to 35%. The shield decays over 4s. (60s Cooldown) For every enemy nearby, gain an additional shield that absorbs damage equal to 5% of max Health, capped at 3 enemies. Every 1 bonus Armor or Magic Resistance you have increases the shield by 0.1%, up to 12%. Damage dealt is reduced by 40% for 4s.
- +35 Attack Damage
- +40 Armor
- +15 Ability Haste
Defy: Champion takedowns cleanse Cauterize's remaining damage pool and restores 8% of your maximum health over 2 seconds.
Cauterize: 27% of all physical damage and magic damage received (12% for ranged champions) is dealt to you over 3 seconds as true damage instead.
- +400 Max Health
Heavy Handed: +50% base Attack Damage as bonus Attack Damage.
Lifeline: Damage that puts you under 35% Health grants a shield that equal to 75% of your bonus health that decays over 3 seconds (90s Cooldown).
Sterak's Fury: Triggering Lifeline increases size, empowers you, removes all crowd control effects on you (except Airborne), and grants 30% Tenacity for 4 seconds.
Basic attacks and abilities generate stacks of Conqueror on enemy champions hit, up to one per attack or cast. Each stack of Conqueror lasts 6 seconds and grants 3 - 7 (based on level) bonus (Adaptive) Attack Damage 4 - 12 (based on level) or Ability Power 4 - 11 (based on level), stacking up to 6 times, for a maximum of 12 - 36 (based on level) bonus Attack Damage or 18 - 54 (based on level) Ability Power (Adaptive). While fully stacked, gain 8 % melle ( 5% ranged) Physical Vamp and Magical Vamp. Adaptive Damage: Deals either physical or magic damage depending on your bonus stats, defaulting based on the origin of the effect.
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When within 550 range of an enemy turret, gain a charge every 0.5s, up to 6 times. When fully charged, your next attack against the turret deals an additional 200 + 30% Max HP physical damage. (35s cooldown)
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Gain 5 health every 5 seconds. After taking damage from an enemy champion regenerate 6 (+2% of your missing health) over the next 5 seconds. This effect is doubled for melee champions.
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When 1 monster or 2 minions are killed nearby, permanently gain 3 Max Health. Max Health can be increased indefinitely. Gains bonus 3% Max Health upon reaching 30 stacks.
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Your ultimate ability has 10% increased damage, healing, and shielding. (AoE damage is reduced to a 5% increase) Scoring a takedown on an enemy champion reduces your ultimate ability's remaining cooldown by 7%.
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Flash
IgniteSource: [[Sources/web-pages/2026-05-26-wrmeta-garen-build-7.1e|WR Meta]] · sampling: Diamond / Master / Challenger (Legendary tier).
Situational item swaps (explicit):
- Plated Steelcaps → Mercury's Treads vs magic damage
- Stoneplate Enchant → Stridebreaker (playstyle/situation dependent)
- Sterak's Gage → Dead Man's Plate when mobility needed
- Sterak's Gage → Amaranth's Twinguard for extended teamfights
Extreme threats: Vayne, Kayle, Teemo, Akshan (12 additional major threats listed but gated behind premium tier on the page)
Note vs the AD "Oneshot" build documented below: This aggregator build is the mainline Conqueror Garen (Black Cleaver + Divine Sunderer + bruiser back end), not the off-meta Grasp/Stride Breaker/Serylda's path. Both can be valid — the AD oneshot build is a niche style; the WR Meta build reflects the average ranked path at high elo.