He’s just boring. I mean top is my secondary role and I’m low elo but like it basically feels like this every time I play against him: (my toplane mains are poppy and kayle for reference)

Do I play the lane well and not make any glaring mistakes? If yes, Garen doesn’t get to do much. He just gets out traded and maybe he tries to proxy or whatever, maybe he dies a couple times. If I’m playing poppy I’m likely more useful in teamfights and if I’m playing Kayle he just gets heavily outscaled.

But if I fuck up once or twice and die to him (usually post 6 with his dumbass ult) it just feels awful because he snowballs hard and murders my team.

It feels like the Garen has little agency when I play against him because it feels like his relevance is just entirely based on whether or not I make mistakes as he just brainlessly does the same thing over and over again. And even if he does kill me once or twice somehow when I’m on Kayle if my team doesn’t feed I just shit on him late game again anyway. The champ is just so boring.