The Garen and Morde reworks were poorly done and have essentialy pushed out their mains
Morde mains typically played solo lanes so now to play their favorite champ they have to go to bot lane?! FAIL Garen mains at least were able to have fun with their champ before the rework even though he was bad and never considered a good pick. After rework he is perma banned in low elo, but 0% pick/ban in competitive and rarely played in high elo. They gave Garen more dmg (which HE DID NOT NEED) and took away his reliability (Which was already one of worst in game). For this they gave him a gimmicky Villain mechanic that they have already had to nerf several times despite him not being played at all competitivly. So if you main Garen you are either in low elo and can never play him, or you're in high elo and you never play him because he is just not good vs good competition, maining Garen and Morde has become a lose/lose. They could have done little tweaks to make those champs viable competitively, but not overbearing noob stompers (i.e. let Garen ult monsters, tack on aoe CC to it if it kills, etc). Sadly they did not and now it is a complete fail for Garen and Morde mains with still no evidence that Riot understands this.