Let's talk about Galio's bulwark.

Galio is an OG juggernaut/support/mage-tank/apc, a big melee fat guy who is harmless at range, but can make a whole team sitting ducks with his ult. He’s heavily gated by mana, as well as long cooldowns, the long cooldowns limit his ability to contribute in team fights, and the abilities quite frankly aren’t strong or reliable enough to warrant their extended downtimes.

Bulwark is the ability I’d like to focus on.

ACTIVE: Galio grants the target allied champion or himself bonus armor and magic resistance for 4 seconds, and heals himself every time Bulwark's target takes damage, with each heal being 20% weaker than the last for each subsequent instance of damage.

BONUS RESISTANCES: 30 / 45 / 60 / 75 / 90 INITIAL HEAL: 25 / 40 / 55 / 70 / 85 (+ 30% AP) TOTAL HEAL: 125 / 200 / 275 / 350 / 425 (+ 150% AP)

Bear in mind the heal is per damage instance. Great early, but complete garbage mid/late game when people start building penetration. and generally scale up. Other than his bulwark Galio literally has no survivability and to top it off, he’s melee and immobile, so you'd think that he'd have a serious answer to burst

I have a few proposals on how it could be buffed/tweaked to really improve bulwarks image as an “I’m protecting this guy” spell and overall functionality. I imagine these could all be mixed and matched to bring bulwark up to par:

1. Bulwark when placed on an ally could redirect reduced damage to Galio
2. When casting bulwark on an ally, both Galio and the ally are given shields -Maybe the resistances could increase/decrease with proximity.
3. Scrap the resistances and make it %damage reduction that increases with level.
4. Allow the heal to scale with his max hp as well as the ap ratio. OR increase the heal by a % per % health missing. -This one is more QOL. The ap ratio is currently very lackluster at 30% and as a support you generally cap out at 100ap late game, while as a mage you wouldn’t be building max hp. This would also open up a sort of mage-bruiser top lane Galio option that scales up into late game as a juggernaut.
5. When he ults and self-casts bulwark, allies within an area would also receive bulwark.
6. A minimum cap on the heal as Galio has no regen otherwise.
7. I’ll just sneak this in here: His righteous gust (e) should work with movement both ways for allies, or have an increased boost initially, that fades off (think Sivir ult)

His other abilities are all more or less perfect from a support standpoint, though he does lack hard cc out of his ult.

Galio's role should be solidified as an ap Juggernaut, rather than the awkward mix if mage/random bulk he is now. He'll have windows of incredible defense/regeneration and utility for the team, as guardian should (sounds like darius, huh?).

Right now Galio isn't prepared for late game.

A guardian is always prepared.