Galio is near unplayable with new mana regen algorithm/rework!!

Dark Cryspee·1/15/2015, 6:31:26 AM·1 votes·855 views

I love playing Galio . He is probably one of my favorite champions to play. I love his ability to just explode massive damage into a team fight unexpectedly, and to bully the crap out of Rengar , DrMundo , and Shyvana in top lane to name a few. Galio has his weaknesses like all champions, of course. His ult has a somewhat lengthy cooldown at 1st and 2nd rank; he starts with a relatively low mana pool; and he is a melee mage like Kassadin, so he has to take risks to make his ult effective, kill creeps, etc... These are all acceptable weaknesses as they are compensated with his abilities and passive. Overall, Galio is quite balanced i would say. Not too overpowered, yet not too underpowered either. This changed with the new regen rework. Galio's abilities just cost too much when compared to his mana pool and base regen. Even if you rush item 3174 , you are gonna be recalling frequently - way too frequently, beyond what is acceptable. Even if you try and play conservatively with your abilities, you will find yourself being unable to assist your jungler when he/she arrives to gank your lane because yet again you are are "OOM". I have tinkered around with ways to make him effective again. None have proven worthwhile. Riot, please return this much loved champion to his former glory. Double his base mana regen, massively reduce his mana costs (at least at early ranks OMG), or greatly increase his base mana pool and mana/level. Honestly, If these things or some combination of them is fixed, Galio can once again be a balanced and fun-to-play champion. Until then, I am putting him on the shelf to wait for a fix.

2 Comments

Ch0c0lateJesus1/15/2015, 1:53:50 PM2 votes

Riot is shitting on pretty much all mages with their constant nerfs to mana items. They just rolled out another nerf to item 3165 in the form of a huge cost increase.

I guess they really want people playing point and click assassins and adcs instead of the traditionally more challenging mage class.

WARLAG01/15/2015, 3:11:23 PM2 votes

Galio is my favorite champion, he got indeed affected by the mana regen. I tried to play around it, trying not to spam even a little, and yea you can easily run oom even with a chalice rush. I played around with a couple of runes and I can say it feels better. 3 mana regen blues and yellows, for a +3Mr/5 which actually helps.