Talk:Garen/@comment-11359887-20140814001859/@comment-23838403-20140818094229

The main problem with garen is that he IS the easiest champion in the game with the most idiot-proof kit you can get. Riot basically wanted a champion that just about nobody could possibly mess up with. (notice how he can build crit, health, armor, MR and has a absurdly long W). I really doubt that riot can keep this 'idiot-proofness' if they raise his skillcap.

Think about it, Yi, whilst easy to play, has ways of messing you up completely if you don't know how the game works. And as such he also has a few tricks (e.g jumping over walls, dodging skillshots with Q etc). And these tricks give him more power over what his base ablities and stats give him (e.g, jumping over wall to secure kills over running over with ulti and not being able to catch up). But if you can't do these tricks (which everyone else expects you to be able to do), then your gonna be behind the champs that can do things such as jump over walls.

I think the point is that the newbies NEED a champion that they can play easily. And if playing garen suddenly required more mechanical powess, or even needing to hit a skillshot, then the new players are gonna find themselves hard to integrate with the game.