Galio's Current State

pjheric·2/4/2018, 6:36:27 PM·2 votes·349 views

What went wrong with Galio? Did devs try to focus down one playstyle (an AP tank hybrid)? Why did they force an AP ratio in all of his abilities so he can't dish out any damage when he doesn't itemize as AP? Does Riot endorse AP Hybrid more or tank more? Why didn't they buff his passive MR shield and increase base damage? Did they even see Galio as a tank? Just posting some questions to think about him. He is an interesting case to explore and I think we can learn a lot from his failure.

4 Comments

I am Pacman2/4/2018, 7:23:10 PM2 votes

Riot wanted to create a tank/ap hybrid. Someone who could do damage but was also fairly tanky.

Players got a hold of him and immediatly realized that he was way more impactful building either full tank of full damage and had fun with both. Riot looked at that and said "no fuck you, we designed him to be a hybrid so you are going to play him like one goddamnit" and procceeded to nerf/buff/change him while players kept doing the same thing. This led to a phase of op tank galio, a phase of op ap galio and then the current phase of well shit he kinda sucks at both now.

Enderspider2/4/2018, 8:19:30 PM2 votes

what happened was, old galio was a tanky ap champion that countered ap champions but still dealt a bit of damage. with his rework they gave him a tank kit, but they wanted a similar playstyle... which doesnt work with a tank kit.

Sex Crazed Eve2/4/2018, 6:56:00 PM1 votes

He's kinda mediocre at everything lol