Talk:Garen/@comment-4094339-20120913200540/@comment-5162027-20120914083745

^ Finally. As much as I enjoy playing bruisers, it's getting ridiculous how much damage they put out mid-game while being tanky. Sure, AD carries catch up eventually, but they trade off that superior damage for squishyness. Bruisers get to stomp people from level ~5 to ~15 just by virtue of cheap (compared to the income required for AD carry) stat bundles. Itemization is too good and too broad (you can toolbox to counter enemy teams with bruiser items far more efficiently than AP/AD carry items, or Support items).

In short, it's about damn time that bruisers stopped being half the damn meta.