Talk:Vi/@comment-4649370-20121209155922/@comment-69.141.8.150-20121212003251

"I don't understand why Garen doesn't use mana. His skillset is very similar to Darius I think Garen's is even more "magical" (shield, passive selfhealing)"

Garen was built around the idea of early game advantage. The idea was that he doesn't need to worry about early game woes like resource consumption or heading back to fountain to replenish his HP (incredible early game passive). Before people discovered he was a ridiculous tanky dps and stacked sunfire capes on him, they referred to him as "Reverse Tryndamere" the idea was that unless he leveraged a really good early game, his late game would be total crap.

Then Sunfire cape stacking happened and all Tanky dps hell broke loose.