User blog comment:NicknameMy/My Garen buff, what and why?/@comment-1445357-20120330120111/@comment-4131177-20120330222907

I am getting the feeling that MarKassiN is trolling hard.

The core of what he says is still true. The passive is fine as it is. It is a free sustain when you really need it, i gladly give away 2-3 last hits if i get the champ for it after (which is the case if you're handsome with garen). The scaling of 6.0 on the spin, i mean, of course you need to play a champion before you can say that something is OP, but you see that from a distance, it is incredibly strong. The lowered base damage does not change much about that.

When you balance something, you must not see how it would be; you must see what players would make of it. Everything can be abused. The way you balanced Garen makes him strong in any phase of the game. But thats not how LOL works. You either are strong early, strong late or good all game (or you are eve and suck all day), but the way you made garen he will excel at any time, this is just not fair.

Garen is a situational champion. As you already read, everyone agrees that he either rules or looses the top lane. Thats fine! There are not supposed to be allround-champions.

That said, i rather agree that he could need an overall rework. It is not done with changing values here. But since his Kit is kind of okay, i dont think Riot will prioritize it.