Is Galio powered by a World Rune?

Ralanr··21 votes·2,773 views

As much as there doesn't really need to be a reason to tie Ryze's quest to every faction, Galio's relaunch makes me question just what the standard of power was back in his creation.

So we have world runes, the magical WMD's of Runeterra that can wipe out entire countries in an instant. They are so powerful that Ryze's mission is to find and seal away every one of them to prevent total annihilation of the world. But he hasn't found all of them yet, and what if he can't actually access some? Since Galio is made of an antimagic material, it might be impossible for Ryze to remove it without waking him. Hell he probably wakes Galio up by being nearby.

Then there's the fact that there's only one Galio. Now this could be because the creator died with all his plans ruined, but it could also be because Demacia only had one Rune to use and thus couldn't mass produce a smaller version that could be used as soldiers. Instead making one giant guardian.

Now the downside to this is that Galio only activates around magic, and when he's awake he's most likely going to be fighting. So in order to avoid Galio accidentally targeting Demacia, magic is probably banned (with Lux's abilities being suspicious. She did correct herself to saying "metaphorically" when telling J4 that she wielded the light).

If I am right, then Demacia is probably a whole lot weaker than it used to be as it's not progressing quickly through warefare technology. It's held back by its traditions like how Noxus is held back by their aristocracy (which they are slowly removing).

Off topic: something tells me the world got a lot weaker after Mordekaiser's fall. Everyone got a bit more complacent without the Iron Revenant to keep them on edge. That and Ryze's hoarding of World Runes prevented new ways to utilize the power, which no doubt prevented a lot of wars from happening and a lot of strong warriors from being made through the fires of combat.

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20 Comments

Sharjo21 votes

I would say no because if Galio was powered by a World Rune, he probably would never hibernate since there'd always be a source of magic nearby.

Potentially Ryze views Galio as a potential solution; an entity to rely on in the event of World Rune miss use. Ryze might see Demacia's super weapon as a good thing. Hell, Ryze may have advised Durand on what what would need to be done to create Galio to begin with.

Honestly the world probably got a lot weaker because of the Rune Wars. The magical devestation wrought probably sundered all of Valoran's major factions and dried the land of magic.

Papa Andrei2 votes

Just following some really obscure logic, but generally a rune represents a single thing, and each rune is different. So it could be entirely possible there is a magic absorbing rune, which is what Galio has.

V The Support V1 votes

Potentially Ryze views Galio as a potential solution; an entity to rely on in the event of World Rune miss use.

Bard

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Mortekaiser2 votes

where the fuck is all of this lore u guys are referring to

Ralanr3 votes

The universe tab is a great place to start.

Dataless2 votes

If Galio were powered by a World Rune I don't think he would need magic to stay awake.

Rito Staff1 votes

I'm just thinking to myself "what beats Galio?" Sion would be the equivalent of Noxus but he doesn't look nearly as big. At his side Malphite looks like a bunch of pebbles duct taped together.

And he's made of magic stone. I think if there is a rune it is well safe within him.

Anyways, I must suffer from old age or simply not being hip enought, but I don't relate size to coolness at all -_-

GreenLore8 votes

I'm pretty sure that AurelionSol still beats galio considering that aurelion could easily annihilate the entire planet if he wanted to.

Mig891 votes

A rioter posted that soon is still his rival and yes soon is that awesome at what he does.

ExcusemeFellows1 votes

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A rioter posted that soon is still his rival and yes soon is that awesome at what he does.

So um, who is soon?

Mig891 votes

sion obviously lol. tablet auto'd me

ExcusemeFellows1 votes

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sion obviously lol. tablet auto'd me

No worries, fck autocorrect.

Narasimha1 votes

In a straight up fight? Off the top of my head AurelionSol - Cosmic level entity MonkeyKing - Has significant speed advantage, clones + invis makes fighting him a pain, and breaking stone shouldn't be a problem for him Ziggs - Depends on how magical his bombs are. If they're primarily explosive based, then they should put a dent or two in even Galio.

Critmaster Garen2 votes

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I'm just thinking to myself "what beats Galio?" Sion would be the equivalent of Noxus but he doesn't look nearly as big. At his side Malphite looks like a bunch of pebbles duct taped together.

And he's made of magic stone. I think if there is a rune it is well safe within him.

Anyways, I must suffer from old age or simply not being hip enought, but I don't relate size to coolness at all -_-

according to lore, malphite is supposed to be the size of a mountain. id say hes probably still much larger than galio whos probably as tall as a cathedral.

sion is gigantic for a human (probably like the mountain from game of thrones). but hes just that. a reanimated babarian warlord. hes not larger than a very tall human. what youre thinking of was probably just his monument that was really large.

SH Azykan1 votes

someone did pixel math and figured that malphite was like 85 feet tall and galio 71 feet

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Making me break out the pixel measurements... I hate you... :P

A frontal screenshot of Malphite from LoLKing's model viewer shows that from the tip of his thumb to the first knuckle is 22 pixels. From the ground to the flat part of the top of his head he is 207 pixels tall, from ground to the top spike on his head is 245 pixels tall, and from the ground to the top spike on his back he's 338 pixels tall. This means that the thumb part in question is between 10% of Malphites height and 6.5% of Malphites height. Again applying our ~5'6" soldier for comparison, that would make Malphite between 55' and 85' tall, hunched over as he is in his idle pose. I'm tempted to measure him like a turtle in this case, going to the top of his back rather than to the top of his head, which would make the final verdict 85' tall.

To keep things as similar as possible I'll use a clip from the 0:03 mark of the Galio champion teaser, where his back is to the camera but he's standing up straight. From the ground to the ankle is 18 pixels, from the ground to the rounded part of his head is 222 pixels, and from the ground to the top of his pointy crown is 235 pixels. That means that to the ankle is 8% to 7.7% of Galio's total height. Plugging in our ~5'6" civilians, that would make Galio between 69' and 71' tall, depending on if you count the crown as an accessory or not.

So not quite as extreme, but Malphite is still bigger.

Onkel Malte1 votes

I'm still wondering what happened with the world rune in Icathia, where the "incident" with Ryze's Master happened, and how this might have affected Jax and Malzahar. But I guess this will have to wait until there's a Void Event or a Jax or Malz update ._.

Nayqua1 votes

Has Galio's lore alredy been released?

underscores2221 votes

I believe he's on PBE, likely to be released sometime next patch if everything goes well. Nothing official to confirm this, just how previous relaunches have gone.

Narcos Cosinus4 votes

Galio has dark and mysterious past.

Tattersall1 votes

This made me chuckle.

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