User blog comment:NicknameMy/My Garen buff, what and why?/@comment-4900160-20120330110348

I am a Garen player myslef, and these buffs would make him ridiculously, gamebreakingly OP. I find him perfect the way he is right now. The only thing I agree with is the passive that should trigger after 5 instead of 7 seconds, because it's currently too easy to make him not regen.

As I said MANY times, Garen does not fall off late game unless you suck at building him, which you obviously do. Saying Youmuu sucks on him while this item has been designed specifically for Garen is absolute nonsense. It's a good item for most melee champs, and borderline OP on Garen. Why the hell would you NOT buy it? It gives him every single offensive stat he needs plus an OP active... Seriously, just learn to play. Playing Garen is all about positioning and avoiding being kited. That requires skill and gameplay adaptation, that is why I strongly disagree when people say he is easy to play. He is probably one of the most difficult melee in the entire game. Others have ridiculous gapclosers. He doesn't.