User blog comment:Willbachbakal/(Champion Rework) Garen, the Might of Demacia/@comment-25228021-20150331164342/@comment-1330314-20150331170258

You're making very valid points here, and I very likely overshot the buffs to his base tankiness. My main reason behind the huge increase to his base health and armor was the removal of his resistance steroid on his W, as well as a significant reduction to his base health regen, but then again those might not even be necessary.