Talk:Garen/@comment-4915885-20130117110704/@comment-178.166.24.118-20130120020237

"I legitimately believe Garen is broken as fuck"

Now that you mention it, I've seen some pros talking about Garen and apparently his unviability for professional play is not the fact that he has kiting issues, but rather a problem of lane switching. Garen is absolutely awful at 2v1 against an AD Carry and a support because he has no means to farm without getting poked to death. In that sense the most common top laners you'll see at a high level are champions like Yorick, Elise, Jayce, Olaf, Vladimir, Shen, etc. They all can farm under turret or at long range without too much trouble, unlike Garen.

As such no one will ever say that Garen is overpowered, even though he is one of the most retarded solo queue champions in the game. Like literally walk up to your enemy laner, press three buttons with absurd scalings and kill him. Doesn't get easier than that.