Galio, Changes to Make Him More Anti-AP?
is essentially the
for AP champions. Malphite builds armor and it becomes damage, Galio builds magic resist and it becomes damage.
Major difference is Malphite also brings a massive attack speed slow and most champions that rely on AD don't want their ATK Speed gutted. Galio brings no such additional utility to screw over mages. When you pick Malphite into a team of nearly full AD it's almost an easy win as long as your team doesn't feed during the laning phase. The same isn't the case at all for Galio when he's up against a nearly full AP team.
Hell you could argue that
fills Galio's niche better at the moment. Cho'gath can be tanky due to his passive and build full AP with hybrid defense items. He won't be as unkillable as a Galio but the AoE silence screws them hard as well as burst them.
Perhaps Galio could have some sort of conditional silence, or his shield could also give a magic damage shield on top of it, or give additional AP according to how much MR Galio has. Or give him a MR aura similar to Taric.
. Especially in occasional times where
, he can be pretty darn scary.
an ideal item for him in terms of team-wise defence. I doubt you would build this on Taric against a full AD team just for a mini-shield.