Patch 8.24 Galio problems and how to fix them.

Hello, I'm a fairly active player of Galio. For me he's one of the more fun champions in the entire game and I have about 100k mastery on him. I play him because not only is his theme majestic, he's a very unique mage and that's what I've craved for so long. Sometimes it feels like it's so hard to find an unique mage champion somewhere because the mage class seems to be pretty similar from champion to champion. But enough about other mages.

Now, after 8.24 hit live, I saw a massive increase in Galios pick rate and win rate. Then I looked at all the changes and oh boy, I'm not sure if I'm happy with what I see. He's being used as a pure damage dealer and no one seems to give a damn about the more unique things he does as a frontline peel mage, and that should not be the case at all. So, here's my suggestions to make Galio a more balanced champion for both solo queue and pro play all at once. Let's begin!

I think the E change is fine. No complaints about that. But The Q and R... oh boy.

They overdid the Q buff. They basically just straight up buffed almost every single aspect about it and left it with no weakness. That should've been obvious from the start considering what happened on patch 7.21 (If anyone still remembers that), but this issue can be easily fixed. Just revert either the mana cost change and the base damage change or revert the ratio changes. Galio should be held as either a good laner or a good late game carry, not both.

I can live with them removing the R damage reduction. It was a bit stupid in my opinion too. But the ult should, in my opinion, knock enemies for 1.25 seconds if enemies are hit in the center of the ult. Players should be rewarded for landing a good ult and having great co-ordination, even in solo q. I just feels like something is missing when hitting someone in the center doesn't matter or make a difference. The extacy of hitting that prefect ult was one of my favourite things about the champion and I'm sure I'm not alone on this one.

So, if the unlikely condition happens and a rioter sees this post, please take into consideration the changes I mentioned in this post. Thank you for reading.[galio-happy]