AP Galio is Disgustingly Overtuned

Ebolol·10/26/2017, 10:17:42 AM·30 votes·2,988 views

After the Galio changes (which saw nerfs to base damages and absurd AP scaling buffs to his Q, and passive especially) hit the live server, I've had the chance to see AP Galio in action, and have seen my share of clips on youtube of it one shotting late game tanks with a Q. To put it simply: The damage is too disgusting. I see where the buffs came from of course; they didn't want a midlaner like galio to be able to build full tank and still have such effective waveclear, base damage, and a global ult, and wanted to make him more AP-fighter esq. However, they took it too far. 3% Maximum HP per 100 AP? Seriously? A late game build with 700AP will make it 21% Max HP from a single tick of his Q, which has 3 total ticks. 63%. 63 damn percent, and thats factoring in a void staff so you can forget about the resistances. With a gap closer, damage to one shot squishies, wave clear galore, easy matchups with a magic damage shield, and crowd control, why can this guy also half health tanks with a single ability? It's too much, and 2 weeks is too much time for this guy to wreak havoc on this game. This buff has gone way too far; something needs to be changed.

25 Comments

Oak Island 10/26/2017, 10:34:06 AM4 votes

Riot doesn't care about the game tbh. They just want money. Proof of this is.. why is PBE such a shitty server where people can 'test' skins out? Shouldn't it be strictly focused on experimental balance changes?

Unreformed Shaco10/26/2017, 12:48:16 PM2 votes

Rather have a dodgeable Q doing 1k damage than Draven's auto attack doing it.

Least Galio has a CD and doesn't heal from it.

Kloqdq10/26/2017, 4:46:32 PM1 votes

Can't see it if you insta-ban it ;)

La Belle Sauvage10/26/2017, 5:54:36 PM1 votes

Excellent post.

Feathermane10/26/2017, 6:31:40 PM1 votes

So is Kled. What else is new?

softest boy10/26/2017, 9:50:05 PM1 votes

While you're 100% correct that he is overtuned, I just feel the need to say it's extremely difficult to get to a 700 AP build. Maybe in season 5, but no. I typically hit 500 ap late, late game.

but let's give assassins border-line 400 AD and still acquire 200 MR. :/ sorry im salty

Nipsahoy10/27/2017, 3:13:55 AM1 votes

The Galio rework in and of itself was a completely moronic decision anyways. I mean they nerf/change Maokai for being too much of a generalist tank and then you rework Galio to be the same thing even worse than Maokai ever was... Stupid is the only word that can be used to describe that.

The Trent10/27/2017, 6:57:32 AM1 votes

I'm sorry, but I can't help to laugh at people who do lack of research and post about something that was obviously getting hot fixed. Also, after it's hot fixed, they don't even delete their post. What the heck.

sit kid10/26/2017, 11:24:00 AM1 votes

where are the clips?