I think if galio was ranged (for basic attacks) he'd be viable.

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Sure it'd make him "viable", but it speaks to a failure in base design. He was designed to be a tank. Kinda odd having a tank that has no reason to enter melee range. Sure, we can just say "well just make him a Mage then" , but then, what about him really stands out or even identifies him as "Mage" besides his bursty damage? You'd just be forcing a tank's skillset onto a Mage.

The biggest issue with the tank vs mage identity issue is his lack of sustain. His W is a great teamfight and dueling tool but it is definitely not a reliable source of sustain. If Galio had something like Xerath's passive he'd probably be called overpowered. Galio is almost obligated to rush Catalyst or Chalice, no matter the matchup, just so he can stay in lane for more than 3 waves at a time.

Galio's identity to me has always been a sort of reverse Malphite/Rammus, someone who gets more powerful as he stacks MR with some cool utility built into his E and ult. Honestly I think all three champions are in need of some QoL redesign. Galio needs something that either helps him gain extra MR (think Thresh passive) and/or more ways to make use of his excessive MR.

Of the three I mentioned I think Malphite has the best overall design, mostly due to the synergy between him and Frozen Heart. It may be a generic item but it gives Malph everything he needs (armor, cdr, mana) with a passive that super synergizes with his E. I think Galio needs something like this; I'm not sure how long you've been playing the game but there use to be an item called 'Force of Nature' that worked amazingly with him (move speed, MR, regen). It use to be that after you got Athene's, FoN and Aegis on Galio you were this unkillable engine of burst.

I think if we introduced an item; something like:

Catalyst + Null Magic Mantle + Null Magic Mantle + 500 gold = Force of Nature

+300 Health +400 Mana +50 Magic Resist +8% Movement Speed

UNIQUE – VALOR'S REWARD: On leveling up, restores 150 health and 200 mana over 8 seconds.

This Force of Nature would have a total cost of 2600 gold with a gold value of 2796 for just the stats it provides with the additional bonus of the unique passive. Force of Nature was originally removed from the game because "the stats it gave didn't synergize with each other, and it provided too much magic resistance in one item."

We now have multiple items that grant 50 MR. Aside from Chalice (Athene's/Mikael's) we have no items that provide both MR and Mana and aside from Merc Treads we have no items that provide MR and move speed. Galio needs all three of these stats to operate, I think with just the introduction of an item similar to this Galio would be very playable without the need for a rework of any kind.

I think he has too much counterplay. I also agree with just about everything you said. Personally think having his ult harder to cancel, but reducing the taunt time a bit would go a long way. Just feels that if someone sneezes on him during his ult it breaks it. Even Kat can take a binding and not stop her ult.

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If Gallio would have proper synergie with his melee AAs, he also would be better(and honestly, he IS viable if you know what you do, he does his job as a siege-tank very well, his Q+E offers great poke, good disengagae and fast rotations, his Ult is a massive counterengage that can punish dives and supoptimal engages really hard.

Though still, the thing that annoys me the most is that he's the only melee that has no reason to use AAs, no mechanic tied to them and he won't get ad/as from items, he doesn't even have great base stats compared to other tanks...just give him mr-based magic damage on hit or something like that. Aditionally, his biggest propblems are still hard-cc on-hit, or with unfortunate timeing(i guess everyone who plays a bit gallio had moments where he flashed in for an ult and got it inst cancled by an enemy that finished casteing a spell while beeing taunted) If hi ult wouldn't do damage but therefor gets set on 5 sec cd if it gets interuppted within the first ~0.5sec, it would help alot, or if he gets cc-imunity vs taunted opponents... you can't pick him if Braum is open for example, as you would play a champ with +50%of his total power put into his while never beeing able to use that ult, which really sucks. Hard-couters shouldn't be a thing.

I like the idea of on-hit damage scaling with bonus MR but that's more a straight buff.

Hard counters are important in a game like League of Legends because of a concept called "cyclical balance"; ? > A > B > C > ?

It's a very complicated set of rock-paper-scissors that gets even worse when you mix in the concepts of hard/soft counters. Aside from it being impossible to not have hard counters in this game (the second one champ was given different range than another a counter was made) a MOBA with no hard-counters would be very boring.

Kinda different, considering Galio's a mage and Nasus is a bruiser.

A: He is viable B: Nasus is not a mage. Unless he is.