Talk:Garen/@comment-58.172.169.27-20121121110839/@comment-216.58.9.28-20121122083059

I personally am guessing they may have felt Garen's melee-range/230-attack-range use made him much less reliable against more laners (namely like anyone with range) in a design perspective compared to Renekton and Pantheon's dashes providing a higher-ranged presence (or in Pantheon's case, an actual ranged-harass ability), and decided to even out Garen's power curve instead of keeping them around their level. Basically, early-game power as an intention works with Renekton's and Pantheon's kit far more than Garen's so they didn't keep doing that for Garen, but kept it for those guys.