User blog comment:NicknameMy/My Garen buff, what and why?/@comment-87.100.191.176-20120330144052

If Garen gets buffed or changed, it should be more of a rework than straight buff. A few months ago he was extremely annoying to lane against and your suggestion would get him back up there. Riot hates this (this is the reason why Xin Zhao and all the stealth champs are nerfed).

His problem is that he either zones out his opponent completely or just hangs around the lane doing nothing. His kit is his problem, not his base damages/scalings. Not having enough armor vs. Garen at level 1-3 means that even the current Garen crushes every solo top. Buffing his scaling and base damage would make him #1 solo top even if you took 40 armor rune page and cloth armor start. Against low-level opponents this would be terrible because he'd be as good as old Xin Zhao at pubstomping. Riot has pretty much decided that he will not get buffed with his current skills but he might receive a complete rework later on (with none of his current skills).

TL;DR: Make him better and he pubstomps too easily.