@Meddler Galio rework

I think adding new items might help with dealing with assassins.

You can add more tools for assassins, items similar and cool like the . or . Or options to counter them, such as , , or .

I think adding more items would be a cool way to go about it.

Ideas Dagger of Time: + +2k Gold. Active: Place your champion in Stasis for 1 second 150s CD -It would look cool with the new invincible VFX and allow AD champions (IE HALF THE CHAMPIONS IN THE GAME) to have some option to counter burst damage. For example if a rengar ults you, this item will give you 1 second to brace for impact.

Items should be bought for niche situations in each game. I think items with cool effects should be purchasable by both claseses (such as greivious wounds or reflect AP damage: AP equiivalent of thornmail.

I'll add more

And finally, I still cannot use timer pings on certain items. The main ones I have trouble with are the support items. Targons, Spooky ghosts and I assume the third one all CANNOT be pinged. I cannot let my team know if I have a shield or cc ready etc.

Please would you mind making sure every activatable item can be pinged?

Thanks have a good day

never digested too much well defensive items scalings on champion skills personally :P but either way i am no galio player.

Do you see in that regard Galio the mr version of Rammus in terms of scaling? Or you just want to scrap entirely that? In case, do you see Galio scaling off support items as a good or a bad thing?

His W is pretty amazing too Meddler! back in Season 2 I remember playing with some friends on twisted treeline and how I showed them the true power of Galio tank! one of my friends was Tryndamere and he couldn't believe that he wasn't able to 1v1 me!

I mean I know it's a very personal experience but that shield with that cooldown is AWESOME, not to mention healing off damage dealt to someone else is pretty unique as well, if anything it's his most interactive spell

If you do consider giving him a new ult, turning his old ult into a basic ability (though smaller & weaker, but with a much shorter cooldown & lower mana cost) is an option if you want to keep the old ult in some form. Just throwing this option out there. Like I said, that's IF you're giving him a new ult but want to keep the old ult in some form because of how iconic it is for Galio. This also depends on whether or not his old ult fits with the new kit & thematic.

Hey Meddler, you know how, in Legend of the Poro King, the Poro King has a radius around him where if any snowballs from the enemy team enter it, the snowballs get redirected to the King and can't hit his allied players?

How feasible would it be to get something similar for Galio, where he redirects all ranged attacks in an area around him to himself, maybe with some kind of boost for each time he redirects magic damage?

Like, he could pop this projectile absorbing field and temporarily gain +20% movement speed and tenacity for each time he takes magic damage while his field is up, or maybe gains charges on a flight mechanic ala Aurelion Sol, where if he gets hit enough, his ult turns into a "take flight mode" where he flies forward at high speed and then ults on the second press of his R button instead. Since you guys are rightfully planning to keep his ult, it would allow him to be designed as a defensive or anti-siege/poke tank, while giving him something that helps him get to the enemy team so that he can utilize his ult.

You should strongly consider that suggestion on the champions reboot about his relationships with structures. Was a great idea by a fellow player and would make an interesting passive and playstyle

tbh, I think the ult should stay has it it now (maybe with "cc blind" if target is taunt to avoid unlucky stuff like rek'sai) and his passive should be put on his current W with level scaling and steroid nerf to not make it to much of a "jack of all trade" spell)

that leaves 2 new spell and one new passive to work on, which is to me to right amounth of change galio need to be a chalenger to other disruptor

Galio we want to see if we can really deliver on a mid lane focused tank/mage , as we think that opens up a lot of interesting strategies

That what you guy said before and it got me thinking which champion could be consider mage tank. . However none of them are really mid focused. All of them could jungle, all of them could go top fairly well. We've only seen cho'gath and gragas go mid. What I want to know is how could he be different from them but still compete against those similar to him. It's like how you guys always said you want to avoid a situation of "why chose x when y is better".

Because it is very awkward to utilize. He has nothing to support him in melee when he needs to CS.

I see him being a warden, but current galio's e totally disconnects from that view. They could make him a body guard that locks up people when engaged... but that would be too much of an overlap with zyra I think. he would need to be a lot more tanky/far less damage oriented to be differenciate himself enough imo

charm is actually a good idea. Don't know balance wise if it would work because clumping champs together is really powerfull. Making the ult radious smaller might fix that tho. Galio's down times have to do more with his absurd CD times rather than mana costs however. Yes he is gated early game by having huge mana costs but late game when he has built some mana regen or something like ROA he still has huge down times. This is because galio's power entirely revolves around his ult and his abilities are all very good (all provide a good chunk of damage and/or crazy utility). Galio is not useless or unbalanced like many other reowrked champs, like sion, gp or poppy were, but tbh he is just boring