User blog comment:Willbachbakal/(Champion Rework) Garen, the Might of Demacia/@comment-25414280-20150402205445

"Riposte will not trigger against structures."

"Riposte is negated by   dodge ,   blind ,   parry  and   block ."

As far as the actual re-work is concerned, tank Garen is most likely better, however it might be too good? His base health and armor at 18 would be the best in the game, and would have a 50% damage reduction on a best-case 4.4 second downtime.

Speaking of his W, I feel it's good when being sieged on, but better while sieging. If it works on minions (which you said it does) and reduces damage from turrets (which is left ambiguous), could you imagine a Baron buffed team with a Garen pushing a lane? While this wouldn't apply to your average YoloQ game, in say LCS where grouping for a turret is common it could be a huge advantage.

The re-work also pushes Garen into almost having to play tank. While he has synergies with stacking AD, he has nothing for building Crit as well as longer CDs on Q and E (with E's range also being reduced).

Despite all of that, I think in a teamfight situation the kit is pretty balanced. Being able to charge onto their back-line mage then silencing them on top of the W damage reduction could be really interesting.

TL;DR W might need tuning down; damage Garen is kinda bad; teamfighting is interesting.