User blog comment:Drunk Bloke/Debate on Demacian Justice and Noxian Guillotine/@comment-109.144.209.138-20121025161107/@comment-109.144.209.138-20121025161738

Oh somehow I missed the short kit part... still, Garen can't just run in, cause he cannot remove slows with his spin anymore. They put the slow removal on Q, but you'll use that when you initiate. If they slow you afterwards, they'll kite you forever, as the skill won't even go to cooldown until you used it or it expires. Naturally tanky doesn't really apply either, as they modified his W passive to be percentage based. So you HAVE to build resistances in order to get more tanky. Not that you won't do that anyway, but in early/mid, he's just much less tanky then he used to be before (due to the lack of resust items to get the +% from), while his lategame survival didn't improve that much. Now I feel that he's just subpar in all points of the game after his "buff".