Galio: One Change that Could Make The Sentinel's Sorrow a Viable Pick

I would love to see galio move toward the support role; in fact, that's where I play him most often. When I came up with this idea, the selling point was how little is modified. I didn't want to propose a full rework because there is already plenty of those. I looked at possibly making his q have an ice born gauntlet-type effect, I also looked at a version of his W like you described. I felt like the E change would benefit the most if I had to pick any single ability. It's great because it buffs his ultimate without actually changing Idol of Durand. I wouldn't be opposed to more changes, but that would defeat the purpose of saying "one small change can bring him back"

I always appreciate the feedback

Even if he was tweaked toward support he would still need something like this change :/. He is currently suffering from garen-syndrome requiring him to spring from bushes or use his summoner spell to engage. His high cool downs, low late game damage and lack of mobility are ruff. Although he really might have to be a support if they DID make this change because that+somewhat high damage would be bruuuuuuuuuuuutaaaaaaaaaal

P.S. Also remember galio would probably actually need more changes after this as well. He has some kit problems that really need to be addressed. He is to far in between a support and a mage. I would personally love to see support galio become a thing

That would be cool

Giving him an incentive to auto-attack gives room for counter-play as he hits minions. This might push him to a support/Toplane role, but I could dig it!

It'd need a long cooldown, but a 1-second refresh on it per autoattack or something would be cool to accompany it.

I like the idea of this new E having a cooldown reduction, but I wonder if it might make more sense for the cooldown to be lowered everytime Galio is autoattacked, which would make for some interesting plays with his W and his ultimate.

What if the new E's cooldown gets reduced by X-seconds for every enemy champ Galio catches with his ult?

Definitely! I should probably edit that in. Thanks for the insight

Hmmmm. Yes, especially after the rework.

There are also discussions on changing his Q to be a melee range ability, making him a strong top/support. I didn't want to change too much because modifying Galio's identity would be no bueno.

Not only are Galio and Gragas's kits similar, Morg's kit is reminiscent of them too. I think the main differences are what you would build on them. Galio benefits from a tankier build more than Gragas does, and Gragas benefits from more damage (same with Morg).

Galio is actually one of my favorite champions, and I do think he is balanced, especially after they added scaling MR per level. What i do not like is that if you hover over Galio in any queue, you get barraged with spiteful comments. I think Galio is a strong support, especially with MF, but people just see him and lash out. I think with a slight buff, the community would be more receptive to Galio and his kit.

That is both good and bad for players. The fact that it can very easily put him out of position can be deadly to Galio will either require a tankier build, or more skill. It gives enemies a chance to outplay Galio, where normally he would sit back and go "bleh" at the enemies to chip them down.

If you give Galio a dash with no reason to have him in any danger, he becomes more similar to Leblanc, who dashes in to secure kills, rather than to set up a team fight.

When I went around drafting this, I was looking at a way to highlight Galio's massive utility while still making sure he didn't return to the unholy OP status he used to possess. They nerfed its size, duration and damage, and made it more easily interruptable.

It's an unfortunate coincidence that Gragas Morg and Galio share very similar kits. this also slightly contributes to Galio's low pick rate. Why pick Galio when you can have morg or gragas? teammates would definitely be more open to these rather than Galio.

I tried to do this with as minimal change as possible; I thought that lowering his mana costs might make his early game -specifically the period before his first back- too strong. Once Galio gets chalice, he cannot spam spells, but he doesn't need to worry so much. My greatest fear was seeing Galio spit out a resolute smite every time it was up, like Ziggs.

Among many others really. A great number of champions with teamfight abilities have some ability to position them to use it. Wukong and Twitch can stealth, malphite dashes forward, Sejuani has a dash and so on so forth. The problem is that there are incredibly similar champions with skillshot cc Q's and aoe teamfight ultimates.

One big difference between them is that ultimate works more like a giant ult that can be interrupted (which is one reason why I see him being so unpopular) while is larger and pretty much just tells everyone in the whole fight to freeze for a second.

Idol of Durand used to behave like that, but they felt that when all 5 enemies were inside, it was essentially unstoppable, and there wasn't enough counter play. It does force players to pick when they go in, for example waiting until a Leona uses her Q, but it also makes people reluctant to go balls deep for an ult.

Also, I drafted this knowing that Galio's ult has been nerfed more than Irelia, so I tried to buff the ult without actually touching it. I felt like any changes to his ult wouldn't meet with Riot's approval, seeing what they've done to other AoE ultimates, like Amumu's

Theoretically, players using this dash could more easily grab all 5, limiting the chance of interruption. On the opposite side, players would know better not to group, for fear of a 5 man ultimate.

It is true that Galio doesn't have much early game potential due to a lack of hard cc and mana costs, but he also has almost as much kill potential as Leona at lvl 6.

On a side-note, supports can be successful with no hard cc They all pay for their utility by having no hard cc, same as Galio.