Crit and Garen - a remnant of the past?
Playing URF, I just noted something. Crit (while very fun on URF) on Garen seems like a random scaling that doesn't make sense on him at all. It's like the old ap ratios on ad champs that were just there to... exist. I know crit Garen is a thing on normals as an off build, but his entire standard item pool has no crit on them. His damage items are typically Cleaver or Titanic, maybe a Maw as a situational buy, Ghostblade for more damage-centric Garens, etc... But IE/PD/the crit stuff - they're not exactly great on him. With the exception of IE, the rest of them have wasted stats (attack speed on the zeal stuff, mana on reaver, mana and attack speed on trinity). And without another item to stack crit chance with, IE alone isn't a great item.
Just a thought, I think the crit scaling is a remnant of the past, when there were stuff like old Ghostblade/Atmas which were decent on him, on top of synergizing with IE for a solid amount of crit chance and damage. Not saying if it's bad or good to keep, but anyone think the new itemizations kind of make it outdated at this point in time?
item or some other ad/crit item onto the rift, and this off build will see better days again.