Who is the better character?

not my point

Lelouch for sure. He had an actual ambition compared to Garou. Only reason Garou became an antagonist was because he was bullied. I like Garou design a lot more though. Looks like a young Heihachi

This. Garou is objectively the better character.
Lelouch’s age in combination with his characterization are straight out of your average isekai self-insertion fantasy.

youre right, but garou still is doing it because he got bullied and having a sperg fest. The only redeeming thing is he gets a good wakeup call at the end that snaps him out of it all

That's not an answer.

both are edgelord who wanted to be a hero by becoming the common enemy of the world

Is garou created to fire shot on how stupid Lelouch's plan was?

Zero Requiem wasn't Lelouch's goal, it was just an excuse so that he doesn't have to actually work as a statesman and go through the herculean task of ruling the entire world
Lelouch faked his death for the same reason Elvis did, it wasn't a noble deed.

so you're saying they are the same then? What Garou did wasn't noble either and he was just taking the easier way.

Left: grand robotic drama.
Right: shitty generic shonen.

Garou was never pretending to be noble because what he did wasn't a consciousness effort, it was something he wished for deep down.
this is the main difference between the two.

Lelouch is a cuck but he still a well rounded character. Manchild is all style no substance.

Garou was extrapolating groupthink issues you face on the regular onto a global scale. He's radical in his methods, and a very conflicted person but some points he raises are good and absurdly hard to actually resolve permanently. Realistically people will never abandon groupthink entirely and at large you can only give them a new, big target to focus their fear and hatred on, which is what Garou wanted to become.
In the end his mindset is curious and he's not morally wrong to hate the herd mentality but he's forced to change his methods solely as not to butt heads with Saitama constantly because that would be unfair to his character's development. If your path must absolutely involve defeating Saitama-on-his-hero-duty first, then you're fucked. It's better to adjust it for the character's own sake. Otherwise you get a poor comic relief idiot like Sonic.

Maybe if you're 12

Lelouch by the virtue of having adult level issues. Manchild creates stupid "give me attention" problems and gets a hard reality check by the end of the arc

>daddy issues
>adult level
?

Garou’s issues concern a common human problem and his way of handling it.
That he comes across as childish in the end is just good writing on the part of ONE as he realizes that he’s just gone around pretending to be a monster (put of his own idealizations) as he was at the edge of dying for an entire day. Pretty much being the anti-thesis of his surface-level dream all along.

Pretty much, Garou is very ambitious and conflicted but you can actually believe he is 18. He's not supposed to have some perfect plan. He's taking a common human problem like you said (a problem that is borderline impossible to resolve, no less) and trying to fight it en masse in the only way he thinks would work. He's this teenage maverick who is still inherently pure-hearted, confused about what he truly wants, unconsciously mixing in heroic values that clash with his monster image and struggles because of that.
Lelouch is younger and written like a blatant self-insertion fantasy.

garoufag hard at work