why is the buff to garens w being reverted?

the increased tenacity and damage reduction on the 0.75 second window made the most sense out of all the changes.

now his armor/magic resist cap is being increased by flat 10?

instead of buffing his main outplay tool and what separates actual good garens from new players picking him up, its just overall flat stat buffs now.

i mean any buff is appreciated, but the champion gets looked at maybe once every 6 month at best. if youre buffing him at all, id rather you made it count and improved aspects of his gameplay first.

• the initial w buff was good
• speed up the casting time of decisive strike with champion level instead of the damage buff
• let garen cast his w during his q animation
• decrease the lockout timer of his spin cancel from 1 second to 0.5 seconds (this helps with prepping caster minions to lasthit under the turret)
• do some work on the targeting mechanism of villainy.

work on villainy will take more time and efford, but the other points could still be done with this patch cycle

the extra damage on the q, and the resistances on his w are nice and all (though the restance increase will barely even make a difference). but there are other ways to buff the champion that might be a little more lasting.

especially the long q animation is a lot more punishing than might be immediately obvious.