How do I CS on galio (Legitamte Question no QQ)

Meccaz·2/14/2017, 2:08:26 PM·3 votes·1,708 views

Hello I am not really a new player per se but recently I am trying to become more versatile in my picks. Love Galio, love getting assists with shield, love the ult. Love it. Suck at last hitting minions with this guy and it's costing games. Most recently against a Garen player i felt i could not CS, I could fight him early but the CS lead became very large and therefore impossible. I didn't feed many kills but CS alone was enough to turn the tides.

TLDR Need Galio CSing tips please.

7 Comments

Ralanr2/14/2017, 2:13:27 PM2 votes

I don't play him much so don't take my word for it.

His abilities have stupid levels of waveclear once you get pass the mana issues.

Eraenis2/14/2017, 2:18:57 PM2 votes

You don't. You wait for the rework, which is going to be the next single rework.

Anyway, if you are going up against a Garen you are doing it wrong. Galio has always been kind of an anti mage in lane. Really nothing else to say. If you are missing cs with his aa you just gotta train it. After you get some ap you can comfortably clear waves with your skills.

Janna mìd2/14/2017, 2:55:17 PM2 votes

As a Galio main, I should admit that it is really hard to cs with him till you get some mana since his AA animation is really slow and he is melee (i'm playing him mostly mid lane (he is a bit stronger midlane since he got really nice damage with Q, E and ult but absolutely no constant damage) so it is kinda a disadvantage). He kinda has the worst AA of the game as an melee ap champion that has no interaction with his AA

So before my first back, what I do is I try to see if the creep i want to last hit is being AA by my minions. If he is, I click on him just before the allied creep's aa is hiting him because with the delay of the animation, i'll actually damage that creep after the allied creep's aa hit him. Taking savagery in the cunning masteries can really help (but I don't since I usually go 18/0/12 with dft, this keysotne being way more reliable than thunderlords on Galio (there is just no good mastery on Galio)

Also if you are playing against a ranged champ, try to pay attention if he's going to harass you if you try to last hit and if he isn't going to then you can kill those casters minions for free

After you got some mana, just kill the minion's backline with spells (Q and E till lvl 9 and then Q is enough even if you don't really build ap) and try to last hit the frontline. I usually manage to last hit the 6 creeps at this stage of the game while i'm more around 4/5 before I get the mana, so what I usually do is I first back at 650 gold and buy just a mana crystal and boots, and i take tp even midlane (but with some matchups, ignite (against veigar cuz this lane is free af so let's not wait lvl 6 to snowball), purge (ahri/lissandra/tf), barrier (lux/xerath/ziggs), and exhaust (yasuo/lb/kata) are way better (yeah i really play him mid but he's stronger there believe me)) so I can back more without having to deal with being behind in xp/creep

Also from what I've seen with your itemization you want to deal a lot of damage so I would advise you to take abyssal, you don't even need to have any ap against you cuz well 90 AP + 10% cd and 10% more magic damage does really hurt

If you wanna know this advice come from a bronze 3 (;-;) Galio main with 58.3% winrate on him and a kda of 7.9/4.1/11.3 with 181 creeps on average so I might not be the best Galio ever but I ain't bad at all with him (and 3 of my losses come from being afk cuz i have a fucking bad pc that turn off everytime he's hotter than idk like 60 degrees celsius (and 2 times i was winning lane hard (was against veigar) so let's say it would have been 2 wins one loss so it would have been 23w/13l ; 63.9 winrate but I can't be sure about that)) And I'm bronze 3 cuz well 28% winrate kassadin, 25% Zyra and 23% winrate shen, should have only played Galio (i play him support too) lmao

LegenDariusGaren2/15/2017, 3:13:40 AM1 votes

Buy item 3077 Best fucking early item in the game. I buy it on all my melee champs. Last hitting becomes a breeze after you buy it. It costs 1200 gold and sells for 840. I just sit on this item all game and can decide if I want to sell it or upgrade it as my last item.