User blog comment:Zeowolf0/Champion Appreciation Week - Garen/@comment-5333760-20121206034221/@comment-83.196.94.64-20121206191010

then you're bad,  he utterly shits on xin  and jax, jayce is his hardest counter so yeah he doesn't beat him

he has one of the biggest early game damage in the game

a CC removing  MS boost

a big damage reduction  active with a good armor/mr  boost which scales excellently into late game

an aoe to deal damage in teamfights

a finisher

and honestly if you start doran shield + HP regen quints and hp regen masteries he gets like 10 hp back per second  with his passive

and i play both him and darius  (  i compare to darius for obvious reasons)

and as much as darius is better ganker   and jungler, garen shits on darius in lane   and is hard to gank while having immense early game damage while darius IS a bully too but he gets ganked easily

(and don't tell me the darius was bad i faced 3 darius with garen and i  stomped them all easy mode.)

for you he may suck, but yesterday again i did 14/1 and 10/0 on garen top , so i must be god. or he may be a good champ.