Riot, you fucked Galio Jungle
When you launched the Galio VGU, I immediately picked him up. He looked satisfying to play, and more importantly, I'm a jungle main who loves offmeta picks. I main Yorick jungle to good success, I have a few picks to diversify my pool, but I had no tank junglers that I liked playing, and Galio looked perfect.
I picked him up for the jungle for 5 reasons:
- AOE damage
- 6% (post-nerf) max health damage on Q, great for taking on big monsters
- Lots of cc and tankiness
- Great counterganks.
- Decent harass even against tanks with Q - thunderlords proc.
I got him to mastery 5 without ever playing him in a lane. He was a comfortable pick, I could reliably influence games.
And then you reworked him. You cut his base damages by a hefty amount - killing raptors became risky- even for an aoe champ like him. You took off all base max health scaling on Q - It used to do around 350 damage to blue buff at level 1, now it's about 150 IF you go sorcery tree. You made his w half as effective against AD - Good luck ganking botlane
I could barely clear. I had to create a specialized runepage with lots of flat armor and ap to help with my early game. I got frustrated and dropped him for a while hoping you'd give back the max health damage on Q.
And then you released Runes Reforged I can't clear without building glass cannon AP right from the start and buying pots like crazy. I can't gank because I'm not tanky enough and I can't ever finish a clear with more than 200 health. Thunderlords won't proc off Q anymore, no more harass.
And then you gave him damage on his w........ against champions COME ON!! YOU WERE THIS CLOSE!!! I could have brought him back to the jungle with this change if it worked against monsters.
I understand why you made all these changes- full tank Galio was deleting squishies. That's fine, cut his base damages like you did, but please leave in the 6% max health scaling on Q. I'm also OK with you making him weaker vs AD, he's anti-mage. But every single change you made to him hurt his jungling. I loved playing Galio Jungle and you openly support strategies like this, but you completely disregarded this one when you were making all these changes.
