User blog comment:Paamanking/Garen's Passive during a Clash/@comment-71.241.135.229-20130104192449

Kog'maw has no passive in a teamfight. Veigar's passive is effectively nonexistent (and completely unrelated to garen's to be honest). Rengar has no functional passive in real fights. Renekton has effectively no passive.

Just pecause a passive is inactive i na fight doesn't mean that the champion is in any way handicapped. Champions are balanced as KITS not passives, look at Syndra, she has no real passive. Shyvana too. They both have "passives" that are just a way not to bloat their skill tooltips.