What Riot should do to buff Garen in his current kit is simple and revolves around his E
Please make the downtime on his E lower for late game. Having 40% cdr but still having to wait 4- 5 seconds between combos is not fun. He just awkwardly auto attacks at that point.
to at least have some consistent damage (and a crit chance) added to it. I've often done 40% CDR builds when crafting and trying stuff. It became familiar to work around those 4-5 seconds...though I splitpushed more than anything.