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Galio Brainstorming - How could we improve our beloved gargoyle?

MazeMangler·4/6/2016, 5:02:22 PM·2 votes·616 views

Someone asked why Galio isnt played even when he's at a decent winrate over many patches.

Here i my initial thoughts:

I also think that galio is pretty strong atm. Even against AD matchups, hes doable because of his broken W and his extreme q basedamage. He also counters engagecombos like only a few other champs Illaoi Skarner Sejuani , -X?).

Why people dont play galio:

  1. Manacosts are too high. You get over laningphase, really because of your w. But you cant really pressure your enemy because of your manacosts. Sure, i ,,win'' because the champ has high numbers atm, but come on, manacosts so high that i feel like i just abuse a heal over and over without making plays? No thank you.

  2. Clunky as hell Well, my q is sooo slow but when it hits it rewards me, just feels bad. But E, righteous gust, the speed up windy thing really pisses me off. It's the yorickproblem, really: I cast a speedbuff (a slow in yoricks case) BUT I STOP TO DO SO. wtf? who in his right mind thinks that i want to stop walking when i want to walk faster?

  3. unpopular Well, pretty obvious, people dont play unpopular champs. Also lets you avoid flame

So, could we as a community try to help the poor gargoyle to make him a bit more interesting? Here are my thoughts about this, but be welcome to post your own ,,sloution'':

  1. Reduce Mr scaling. WTF BRO? Thats his identity! you might yell at your screen atm. Well, sure but have you ever played against galio with an ap team? its downright retarded. I knoiw, counterpicking makes the game exciting but galio is too much from it right now. Maybe also take a bit away from ultdamage. Now you can move his powerbudget a bit.

  2. Give him a new passive. Honestly, almost every other tanky champ has a reason to autoattack. (only and dont i think). A champ with igh cd and nothing to do inbetween- haha im having so much fun over here. I propose a passive similar to tarics:

After Galio uses an ability he gets a debuff on his next autoattack called ,,petrifiyng slap to the face'': Increase Champion's CD's hit by petrifying slap to the face by o.5/0.6/0.7/0.8/0.9/1 sec.

There we go. Nothing too exciting just being more of a dick when CDs are down.

  1. Take E's casttime away. Makes the champ much much smoother. If its not fancy enough, slow all enemys which run in the opposite direction of the skill (its a windtrail after all).

  2. Dont give him a dash, still. Because you really dont want him to have one, believe me.

Galio is not broken per se and its fine if you dont want him changed. Just trying to get a brainstorm going.

Just my 2 cents about galio :)

1 Comments

imbrus4/6/2016, 5:40:16 PM1 votes

i think the reason he's underplayed is because as you said he's clunky as hell but mainly because he's very niche, for the same reasons as kassadin. and mid usually accompainies assassains and mages who rely on high damage and/or heavy waveclear and while galio is good at both of these he is just overshadowed by champs who do it better. Also the role of an engage is usually taken up by the supp, top or jung so the mid laner is relyed upon for damage or being able to pick off targets, which is why kass is usually picked over galio in an ideal scenario of an ap heavy team.

Also the fact he is very mana hungry and has no escapes besides flash.