New Garen

I see a lot of people complaining about new Garen, but I've been having fun with him. From my limited, scrubby knowledge, he used to be a tank.. But his engage was pretty terrible compared to other tanks with hard cc. You could build him to do damage and then he was useless in a team fight, or build him tank, absorb damage if you were tageted for some reason and just use your single target utility while thornmail, sunfire, Judgement ticked away some damage. He had uses, but limited uses. Most of the time I saw Garen just staying top lane, refusing to team fight, and pushing towers all game.

Now he's a bruiser (I think). Enough damage to question getting close enough to poke him while still being shutdown by most CC. Build him straight tank or damage and you'll suffer as before, but balance out offense and defense items based on his strengths and he's quite fun to play. For me at least.

There's nothing like seeing +274 on the end of the HP bar.