What are your thoughts on garen after the 6.24 patch now that its been 1 week? is he still bad because his early game is so easy to punish? is he viable now? or a little too strong? Do you plan to do more changes in the near future?
Critmaster Garen4 votesas much as id have liked something else for a buff
http://champion.gg/champion/Garen
got to say, the result is impressive. lets see how long it lasts. objectively, they accomplished the exact opposite of what they wanted. the armor shred was supposed to be a buff that increases his team utility by granting him higher than average armor shred with 
all it really did was incentivise him to skip cleaver for lethality, and his teammates benefit less from his 25% armor shred than they used to when he still wanted the 30% from the item.
LegenDariusGaren2 votesPretty much what you said. Cleaver used to be my 3rd damage item on Garen, now I just build Duskblade instead.
NovaDisk1 votesThe changes definitely open up some new build options for him, adding quite a bit of power to Tank Garen. This gives him more of a fall-back plan if he falls behind.
He's also quite a bit better as a tank shredder.
He can be a tanky, tank shredding frontliner, or a powerful dive/flank/splitpush threat.
I'm pretty happy with the changes so far.
One thing I've noticed is Garen has a much better time sticking around in lanes where he used to be poked out, because of Fearless and Siege Master.
Fuh Queue1 votesGaren (in his current state) will always be the same. At lower elo he will dominate, but as you climb the ladder his faults become more apparent. This will be true regardless what numbers the adjust in his current kit