State of Galio after AP item change.

Okay i love Galio.

I have since he was released, i would marry the champion that is how much i love the character.

Over time i have seen him nerfed, buffed and even been told his a useless champion then questioned as to why i pick him. The amount of people i see say "Who the hell is galio" or "I've never played against a galio before.." is staggering as his such an amazing champion and pick for team and solo play. He is my main for top and mid and i would probably never change that. Well until now..

Now. To the real reason i made this post. The item changes.

Seriously the MR decreases on all these items are really stacking up. From what i see they are trying to change items by decreasing the AP but also simultaneously decrease the MR on items so that it balances it out. Now that would and is fine for other mages. But Galio, well he really really needs MR to work as a champion. With all these MR changes he is now slowly becoming a weaker champion overall.

Not only that. The Change to Chalice and Athenes is so great a change in a bad way that they now will probably not be his core item. Where i would always buy a chalice on first back now i will need to find another way to early spike his weak mana sustain (6.0 – 19.6 from lev1-18). So at level 1 if i have chalice, i get 12mp5 with the new chalice compared to to the 50% + 2% of missing mana per second which old chalice gives. This is insane for a champion like galio, because he relies on constant pokes and does take a lot of damage when doing this most the time due to his AA being in melee. So new chalice will give you health regen more than it ever will give you mana regen on galio. Forcing players who want the more aggressive play style of not getting his shield something you now can't or wont be able to do anymore at risk of your sustain mana wise.

Galio's who know what they are doing will run through their mana very fast. As i said before the aggressive play style is the better way of playing galio. Keeping the enemy AP mage on their toes with a quick E and Q combo while also farming the range minions first with that same combo to keep the lane off your tower (For those who have never played Galio or are not very good at him, the main way of farming with enemy in lane is to E over the minion wave, then Q into the range minions. At level 3, 2 into Q, 1 into E this is instant kill for all range minions, leaving the melee minions for you to Auto attack for last hit.). But now you can't do this much at all due to the cost of mana for this constant poke/farm meaning you have to focus one or the other now. Also good bye to his ganks, without chalice his ganking game is out the window. You do one combo with ult in a gank and you have to back for mana! With Chalice how it is now, and Galio how he blows his mana so quick, the old chalice is too good not to have as an item. Take that away and his useless in team fights or farming after a team fight.

The only way to gank with the new chalice is to come from base into a gank, you can never come from mid to a gank due to possibly having no mana when you get into the fight or only enough for a ult.

Athenes is even worse. Cool we get a heal we can use when we shield.. But before we could gank, get some kills and assists and be full mana for farming!

New Abys is great if not amazing though, the more MR and CDR on the item makes it juicy for current state Galio. Zhon change was nice too.

But visage change is like a knife to the gut of Galio. Seriously i understand why this was done but god damn poor Galio.

Personally i am just at a loss right now as to how or what could be done for Galios early game core items now. I had someone on reddit tell me to try new Tear but even that wouldn't be worth it as i would get less MR and AP due to no MR. Also the mana regen on it was taken away so again it is kind of useless for him other than increasing his mana pool which i know is good or better than mp5 but the raw mana regen you would get from old chalice was just better for someone like galio. I just don't know what to do now early game with him and i think maybe his now going to be taken down from my main mid spot against AP mages =(.

TL;DR: Chalice nerf/change ruins Galios early and mid game. What to do?