Well, say goodbye to Garen. He has been gutted.

Q - Decisive Strike: Silence Duration 1.5/1.75/2/2.25/2.5 to 1.5 all ranks

So, Riot's full of shit -- They promised they wouldn't touch his only form of CC, his silence. They fucking ripped it in half. Disgusting. I don't really know what to say but to call out Riot for being a bunch of liars. Utterly disappointing. I trusted that you would do what you said -- and as usual and not much of a surprise! You did the exact opposite to your community yet again. What a big 'fuck you' straight to the communities face.

W - Courage: (Removed) 20% increased bonus Armor and Magic Resist (Added) Killing units permanently grants 0.2 Armor and Magic Resist (1 for champions, large monsters, and epic monsters), up to a maximum of 10/15/20/25/30 (Removed) Active Tenacity component

So..Reverted it to its prior state, and made it pretty much utterly worthless. Malphite? Has a great scaling W that allows his armor to shine. Late-game it can benefit him up to 100+ armor bonus (Oh god, they might nerf my favorite top-lane tank for me saying that), while..30 armor? What's that going to do. Scrape off 15 damage from a critical? How utterly worthless is 30 armor late-game in scale to 20%? What clown would ruin his W -- which was pretty much the most STABLE thing about his durability?

_**E - Judgment:

Base Damage per tick 10.0/22.5/35.0/47.5/60 to 12.0/16.0/20.0/24.0/28.0 Total Attack Damage Ratio per tick 0.35/0.40/0.45/0.50/0.55 to 0.47/0.49/0.51/0.53/0.55 Base ticks per cast 6 to 5 Cooldown 13/12/11/10/9 to 9 at all ranks (Added) Judgment’s spin speed permanently increases at levels 1/4/7/10/13/16, resulting in a total of 5/6/7/8/9/10 maximum ticks of damage per cast (Added) Cancelling Judgment early returns cooldown of Judgment equal to the remaining duration of the buff (Removed) Judgment no longer benefits from Critical Strike Chance or Critical Strike Damage (Removed) Garen no longer moves 20% slower while moving through minions (Added) Garen now moves 20% slower while moving toward champions he’s hitting with Judgment**_

Okay..So..The scaling is now...still basically the same, but barely stronger early, plus it does..little to no base damage now -- and it's now reliant on him leveling HIMSELF over the spell itself for nothing more than 16 more damage a spin (which, note -- armor will ENTIRELY negate the base-damage portion of the ability now!). Stupid, worthless, pointless, and utterly destroyed his 'spin to win' abilities. I LOVED the idea of implementing more spins -- but based on champion level, rather than spell-level? nerfing its base damage? MAKING YOU SLOWER WHEN FOCUSING CHAMPIONS? The fuck? No more providing damage whilst chasing a running enemy. You're forced to auto-attack-weave while moving, which effectively places you further behind them with each attack. It was a great concept of an idea to add more ticks within the spins..but executed poorly.

Base Stats:

 Health/lvl 96 to 84.25 per level
 AD/lvl 3.5 to 4.5            per level
 Armor/lvl 2.7  3.0          per level
 Attack Range 125 to 175

I can live with the loss of health-per level. A few HP per level runes can clear up that error..Everything else is a decent buff, but it does NOT make up for all the mistakes that have been changed in his kit. Everything else they changed, aside from his ultimate (which is a unique touch, it's..decent) has been pretty much a let-down.

Last but not least...

_**Passive - Perseverance:

Regen/sec @lvl16 2% max Health to 1.6%**_

Okay. Doesn't surprise me Riot would make sure to do everything to make his late-game as minimally weak as possible.

TL;DR

The changes have nerfed Garens overall presence in-lane and in team fights. His W no longer giving him the durability and tenacity to reach carries was a stupid decision. Let alone 20% to only 30 armor max based upon a stacking mechanic riot stated was toxic to balance and inappropriate that has somehow returned to his kit..God.

His silence, the only form of CC he had, which was promised by riot not to be touched , got 1 second total ripped out of it. Why the fuck should the community trust what you say when you can't even keep a promise to not touch this part of his kit? Pardon my language, but fuck that.

Your community was literally trusting you to just do what you promised! Not to touch his only CC. And..You cut off nearly half of it.

Sorry if i'm a little blunt or sharp-tongued, but this champion was the first guy I ever played in League. he taught me the game. He was balance at its finest..And now this. I don't know what to say.

He no longer has teamfight presence. He's no longer a tank, nor a fighter, nor anything. His identity of filling any role is now extremely muddied. How the hell are you going to build him now? Just a..durable fighter, with no existant CC nor damage, and he'll only be a threat to whomever is the 'villain'? His only presence and threat will only be to that SOLE individual -- which, any team with a brain will simply zone him from reaching that person, and use them as bait. nothing is dumber than adding a persistent mark-effect that the enemy team can be aware of and abuse. He will ONLY be able to hurt one person, and that's the 'villain'. No one else. He's now forced into an eternal 'i'll focus this person only and the entire enemy team is free to waltz around me because I have no threat in my kit anymore' scenario.

// End rant, begin utter disappointment until Riot fixes the shit they messed up.

P.S. don't worry Skarner, you're not the only one who got the short end of the stupid stick. Don't mind Darius though! he'll be facefucking anyone he comes across after these ridiculous buffs he got.