Talk:Garen/@comment-25532677-20170713174712/@comment-4091261-20170723163445

Indeed, the overall damage he gains from AOE is monstrously higher than the increased damage single target. If anything, the single target bonus damage is to compensate for this fact.

If anything, the main reason it functions this way is so that in laning phase, he can't do tremendous damage just waltzing through the minion wave and slashing the enemy laner. If he wants to do all that damage, he needs to ballerina spin without any enemy minions around.