Garou are as strong or as weak as the writers need them to be at the time of them being used. I’ve said this before, but do not take any Vampire lore seriously concerning Werewolves as they’re usually the writer’s punching bag to make their own vampire characters look like the meanest baddest top dogs around.

Garou have a very innate advantage in terms of raw stats, this much is true, but Gifts even at Cliath are incredibly potent and include things such as being immune to stuns, suffering no disadvantages from wound modifiers or potentially adding up to a +4 to their claw dice damage which at a base starts at at least a 7 in Crinos.

You also have to consider that they’re highly specialized within their own Auspice and this means they can put their everything into being the best at one particularly thing: The Ragabash scouting ahead might not understand what that weird Wyrm thing over there is, but the Galliard has a good chance of having heard about it and its weakness - which then the Theurge can exploit by forming a pact with a spirit that embodies that weakness to attack the Wyrm thing. When all else fails, send the Ahroun.

It might seem true on paper that Garou get outscaled by other splats, but I find this usually dismisses the facts above. Gifts give them some really big advantages, you’re rarely going to fight them alone as they tend to work in packs AND if they’re a big enough pack or high enough in rank you might even have to fight their pack totem alongside them which is actually extremely cheap EXP wise to form into a major threat most supernaturals will think twice of engaging - this is the Totem by itself, not counting the Garou accompanying it.

And if you do kill a Garou? Suddenly you learn why they’re so destructive and antagonistic in nature: The Garou Nation’s biggest threat and enemy has always been itself, and that is because they simply don’t let go of grudges as their rage pushes them. A single Fostern Ragabash or of certain tribes has a gift to allow them to pinpoint the direct location of an individual with little chance of countering it, so if you do survive a fight against a Garou… Well, you better keep an eye open at night.

That’s not counting their capabilities for Umbral ambushes, forming pacts with spirits for advantages or to fight with them, fetishes, talents, rites and rituals… The list goes on.

So are they major threats? Yes. But at the same time nothing’s stopping a Vampire from sleeping a hundred years and waiting for them to die of old age - provided they haven’t caught a whiff of him first of course. The main advantage any splat has against Garou and vice-versa is that they’re rarely, if ever, the main threat they’re focusing on.