Garen Really a Juggernaut?

Ever since the Juggernaut patch I've been frustrated with the state of Garen. I will say he's overall stronger, but not better, since I can almost never justify picking him. Garen used to be the guy I would pick if I wanted to smash lane, or even go even, and/or shut down assassins. It's harder to do either now. He's far weaker early, and by the time he scales up the champions that he would normally bully an advantage out of naturally outscale him anyway. He's stronger late game, yea....but he's still Garen, his kit isn't tooled for late game, and the fact that his silence went dont from 2.5 to 1.5 makes shutting down Assassins and carries harder, not to mention the speed nerf.

I was even comfortable blind picking him before because Garen could deal with ranged champs fairly well due to his bulk and regen. You could just shred a wave with your Spin, eat the harass with your tankiness and regen with your health. Flash combo em if you have an opportunity. But his E scales so damn slow too now and does less damage in AoE scenarios. Once again harder to pick.

Finally the point of a Juggernaut is someone with low mobility, high durability, but could rip almost anyone to shreds if they got in range 1 on 1. Garen's damage is bursty, so this doesn't apply to him either. All other Juggernauts have consistent damage output, while Garen needs to wait for CDs, unless your the Villain and your autos do True Damage. Thus he gets out dueled by almost any other Bruiser, and pretty badly unless once again....they're the villain.

That silly Villain mechanic was supposed to give him some sort of identity and value. But who picks a champion assuming someone is going to snowball? In reality Garen was never a Juggernaut type but an odd tanky assassin that could kill almost any squishy if he landed his silence and wasn't peeled off with his ultimate.