Kayle - Old Galio

SanKakU·6/13/2018, 4:22:11 PM·1 votes·837 views

Combine the 2.

Here we go.

Passive - Bonus AD becomes MR instead, basically like Pyke's passive. Q - Resolute Smite. Lower AP scaling, add some MR scaling, and attack speed scaling. W - Single allied-target ability, can cast on self. Grants a buff for perhaps 10 seconds or so, everywhere the target goes will leave a wind trail, granting the benefits of the buff to allies that touch the trail, and debuffing enemies that enter the trail. This will grant a boost in armor that scales with attack speed and AD, and a boost in magic resist that scales with AP and MR(these boosts do not look at Kayle's stats but rather whichever champion is getting the buff, this avoids the 'unkillable buff-giving problem' that old Galio was). The movement speed however will scale with Kayle's stats, presumably just her AP. This ability still shields like Old Galio's W, but now instead of healing Kayle, it damages all enemies that are still under the debuff. Allies that simply touch the trail may only get the buffs for a short time such as 1-2 seconds, but opponents would get the debuff for perhaps 50 percent longer. This would allow the ability to have a high skill barrier for maximum effectiveness as well as provide some offensive spark to make it appealing in the current meta of lots and lots of damage. E - She becomes ranged like current Kayle...basically nothing changes here other than the AD scaling parts of it become MR scaling. R - has a passive to get current Kayle's passive, so it scales with level, perhaps 3-15(3 times number of attacks) currently becomes something more like 3-15/4-20/5-25 or whatever. And also she gets an active that is Kayle's current ultimate.

So, we gave her 3 of Galio's abilities rolled into 2, and vastly improved/overloaded them while still keeping a bit of flavor of Kayle but enhancing her allies' skill required to get her played to her maximum, much like Kalista requires a good oathsworn to get good value. Which is what Old Galio was partially about as well. And the current Galio is also like this with his ultimate. I think preserving this 'my allies need to have brains' concept maintains the 'blame factor' that players like to have but more importantly it reminds them that it is a team game when their champ requires some coordination. If every champ in the game were like this, I doubt Kalista would be so unpopular.

Then we also made sure that Kayle's E and passive and ultimate were all maintained, and while her W is a lot less simple and that sucks, the most important parts of her kit were maintained.

Hope you guys enjoyed my combining of these two champions.

Just as a final note, I love current Kayle, and the most recent rune changes make her great again IMHO, so I definitely don't want a Kayle rework just for the sake of having another rework. But if they have to do a Kayle rework, bringing her and old Galio together like this would be not a loss but a gain, as long as they do it right, which is why I made this post to help ensure they do it right. She's been in my top 3 most mastered champs since the mastery system was in place and I've been playing her since the very beginning because I remember when she had old Warwick's W even vaguely although I didn't like it much on her haha. The current Kayle that we've had for so many years has been fantastic and I'm a firm believe that if it's not broken, don't fix it, but I know Riot doesn't believe in that and we need Galio back anyway IMHO so I figure why not merge them. A lot of champs like Yasuo and Thresh have weird scaling abilities and overloaded kits, so why not make another one I figure.

If you're interested, I also made a suggestion about bringing back old Galio which has nothing to do with this idea of the Kayle rework which I wouldn't want to have happen but if it must happen I'd rather it happen with me giving some input on it. Making a new champ and call him something else and make him a rival for Galio, a Darkin gargoyle of sorts would be the other direction to take this, and Kayle would simply get a lore and possibly also visual change in that case.

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