User blog comment:NicknameMy/My Garen buff, what and why?/@comment-74.100.239.121-20120330031855

Uh, Garen is totally fine lategame. His real issue is midgame, because build options midgame for him are AWFUL. He's a champion that requires both durability and damage to be effective, and that's very expensive to build. Fratmas requires over 5k gold and is pretty much core on Garen. If you don't get fed/farmed, and the other team starts winning towers, Garen has a hard time teamfighting midgame.

Lategame Garen is actually seriously strong. He's one of the most well-rounded of the tanky DPS champions in terms of both durability and damage scaling, and he functions as an assassin as well as an off-tank. Not many champions can do what Garen does lategame, which is assassinate targets and take a beating at the same time.

Honestly the only buff Garen really needs is a tweak to the active on his W, which is slightly outdated and not really enough in comparison to other durability steroids that other champions get these days.