Galio's Rise

Galio is quite a strong pick now with the current tank meta. he excels at following up to another strong engage which secures a team fight in your favor. alternatively theres always the flash taunt. his level 6 mid lane is so strong against all mid laners who get caught. and since we just hit 6 theres no possibility for QSS (cleanse is possible). this is because they rarely build mr against galio and insead they'll build their waveclear/farm item first. its very easy for any other jungler to follow up on your engage and get that kill.

Galio's damage isn't item dependent, hes got great base damage which is why he excels with tank items, he does'nt need high AP items to deal his damage.

heres an example. pick was to them first locking in velkoz our turn, jinx locks in, i see that and i assumed vel mid and went why not, lb and zed are banned out, i went with a galio. their team picks riven and fiora more or less at the same time, im guessing they argued for top lane. and fiora got stuck jungling. our team now picks renekton and warwick. this is where their fate is solidified. they no longer have a real threat as a mostly ad team. they pick vayne(i assume to burn our tanks at this point), and thresh. we finish off with a support nautalis.

http://i.imgur.com/4hgKWtM.png

the way our team fighting would go is naut would hook someone, and the rest of us would go on the hooked target, they could either come back at us, or they could sacrifice a team member. they had no real poke outside of velkoz, who went AD to lane against a galio, which completely failed for him. my laning phase was pretty safe with starting 43armor and 52MR and a 700health pool with 2health pots. he did a good job of getting AA's off when i went in to last hit and his presence was definitely there in the laning phase, however he just fell off when i hit level 6 and thats where he started getting destroyed. by myself or WW ganks.

http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1775858100/203807166?tab=overview