Some ideas for Garen buffs @Riot

As we all know, Garen is in a pretty bad spot right now.

He's the worst champion in the game Diamond+ (136/136, source: http://lolalytics.com/champion/Garen/ ) and he's been at the bottom of the barrel for quite some time now.

Garen underperforms in Plat (<47% Winrate, champion.gg/champion/Garen/Top ) which should not be the case for a late-game champ with a simple kit.

Even in Bronze Garen usually struggles to maintain a 50% Win Rate.

The problem is that Garen needs buffs, but the buffs need to help him out more at higher brackets of play, without making him broken at skill levels where players cannot exploit his kit's weaknesses.

Here are some ideas I had (Pick one):

**Remove W Stacking Cap ** - This would sharpen Garen's late game strength, with less impact at lower brackets where players don't get as much CS

Add Base Stats - Darius gets almost 250 more base health and 20 more base armor at Level 18. He also gets 7 more AD. Bringing Garen's scaling durability up would help him out at later stages without making him run out of control in laning. Alternatively, adding some movespeed would help Garen keep up in a game which mobility is now standard on meta champions.

Ability to choose Villain - Similar to Kindred, Garen could choose Villain once every few minutes (once per 5 mins after like 15 mins). This would improve Garen's consistency lategame

E base damage buff - This would improve Garen's waveclear. Right now Garen's spin hardly does more damage than autoattacking until you get a few levels.

Faster animations - Many champions have had their autoattack and cast animations cleaned up. Garen has a long windup on all of his abilities and attacks. Speeding these up would improve Garen's performance at higher brackets without making him out of control at low brackets.

Q gives slow immunity - This would be a pretty radical change which would push Garen close to viability in higher brackets (though he'd still likely be not top-tier). Maybe only make it work vs Villain, or give a movespeed buff when running at the Villain.

All of these buffs would be pretty easy to code, and wouldn't drastically change the game, however it would give players an incentive to play Garen. Giving Garen one (1) of these buffs would help bring him closer to the power level of the other champions in League.****