The changes to Warwick's personality gave me a thought about Galio's VGU

Brutusness··1 votes·758 views

Does anyone else think it would be very interesting if, like Warwick becoming a vigilante rather than a murderous mad scientist, Riot turned Galio from a generally kind champion into a morally grey or even near evil one? With Demacia it's becoming more and more clear they're not perfect, and in fact kind rather fascist and forcibly traditionalist. Over the past while, several champions have shown characteristics opposite to how many see their country of origin, ex. Jhin is a serial killer from the "peaceful" Ionia, Ekko is a young, positive inventor from the grim and criminal Zaun, Camille is a ruthless, even cruel aristocrat from Piltover.

I think we need more Demacian champions that show their darker side, other then anti-heroes like Vayne and Lucian who aren't really that "dark", and turning Galio into their version of the Terminator would be a great first step, I think.

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Oleandervine5 votes

Galio has never been about gray area. He's always been a character inspired by Poppy's perseverance, and it gave him the motivation to carry on after his Master's death and move to Demacia, where he serves. I could see them potentially making him a little more cold in terms of personality, since he is a crafted being, but I don't see them making him have gray morality, as that would conflict pretty badly with what people love about the current Galio. No other champion in the game who's been reworked has had that dramatic a personality shift, and I don't think people would take it kindly if they did. If they want to make gray or evil Demacians, they need to create a brand new champion, not repurpose one who everyone's already fallen in love with. That'd be like making Urgot the prettiest man in all the land if they reworked him.

Xodiathe4bdn11 votes

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Galio has never been about gray area. He's always been a character inspired by Poppy's perseverance, and it gave him the motivation to carry on after his Master's death and move to Demacia, where he serves. I could see them potentially making him a little more cold in terms of personality, since he is a crafted being, but I don't see them making him have gray morality, as that would conflict pretty badly with what people love about the current Galio. No other champion in the game who's been reworked has had that dramatic a personality shift, and I don't think people would take it kindly if they did. If they want to make gray or evil Demacians, they need to create a brand new champion, not repurpose one who everyone's already fallen in love with. That'd be like making Urgot the prettiest man in all the land if they reworked him.

Yes well warick went from singeds mentor to his test subject and all ties to Soraka have been severed So who knows what direction they may take They could make galio embody the dark side of Demacias reclusive and sometimes restrictive nature I see a relentless enforcer or uncompromising yet grim keeper of laws or guardians. Hey anything is possible

GreenLore1 votes

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Yes well warick went from singeds mentor to his test subject and all ties to Soraka have been severed

They did rewrite WWs lore already before,but for some reason no one seems to have noticed that. In his 2nd lore,he was the guy who provided singed with bodies to experiment on. So he actually he went from mentor to accomplice and then to test subject.

Brutusness1 votes

I don't think so, necessarily. Both Urgot and Galio are menacing looking characters, so Galio having his personality be changed to be more brutal would not be the same as Urgot being a nice guy. And to your point about his character being tied to Poppy, that doesn't much matter anymore considering Soraka, who has always been important to Warwick's lore, is now separate from him. As well, Galio isn't really a character with a lot of fans, so changing his personality to be more dark wouldn't really piss off that many people.

Valor Bot3 votes

As well, Galio isn't really a character with a lot of fans, so changing his personality to be more dark wouldn't really piss off that many people.

It would piss off those who like Galio's current character though, even if there aren't hundreds or thousands of them--it would sting those few all the same.

Don't get me wrong, Galio's backstory most definitely needs something new, something to give him depth. But just because Demacia happens to be missing a "brutal" or "corrupt" type Champion doesn't mean he should receive a complete personality overhaul to fill that niche when a brand new Champion could do it better.

I'm sorry, I just can't agree with the notion that because a Champion has a small fanbase, that it makes it OK to implement a large-scale change that otherwise would have been out of the question for a character with a larger group of followers.

RogueWill1 votes

Sion went from being this somewhat silly undead to an angered one (that is a pretty big personality change) Poppy Went from being this serious characters trying to fortify the ties between countries to this teenagers trying to find a hero (again pretty big personalty change)

Oleandervine1 votes

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Sion went from being this somewhat silly undead to an angered one (that is a pretty big personality change) Poppy Went from being this serious characters trying to fortify the ties between countries to this teenagers trying to find a hero (again pretty big personalty change)

Both of them are updates to their character lore based on the direction of the game. The walking Arnold caricature of old Sion has no place in the direction the game is going. Making him an angry undead is not too far off from what he was, and makes him a more established character, and less of a joke. Poppy's personality isn't much different, she's just delivered in a different way. She's still serious at times, she still is oblivious to certain things, and she's still putting herself in service to the king of Demacia. Neither Poppy or Sion has had a complete 180 of their personalities. They merely evolved to fit the standards of the game. Taking a good aligned character like Galio is now, and making him evil is not the right approach to showing a darker side of Demacia.

RogueWill1 votes

If you want galio to stay as it is then just say so. But those champion clearly saw an 180 degree changes in their personality regardless of the reason.

Some other champions just got similar 180 changes with just the lore, like the Twisted Fate and Graves relationship, and Misss Fortune and Gangplank one durign the blidgewater event. Jayce/Viktor as well as Oriana recived heavy changes to their personality and motives on the current Pilvoter lore update. Similar to Warwick/Singed....Making Galio Evil is a valid approch to make demacia darker as any other.

GreenLore2 votes

Well WW was originally a morally black character,who had literally no good sides, and has now be turned into a grey character(if not outright chaotic good one).

Like seriously,WW had 2 backstories before already and in both he was an extremely evil character before and after his transformation. In his first lore he was Singeds mentor,who loved killing people with his chemweapons and when he was turned into a werewolf,he actually liked his new form,because he enjoyed tearing people to shreds. In his second lore,he was basically a killer/kidnapper for hire and tried to deceive and backstab soraka in order to perfect the werewolf potion,when that didn't work out,he drank the incomplete potion anyway,hoping it gives him the powerboost to track down and kill soraka.

Janna mìd2 votes

As a Galio main it would really piss me off I mean they're going to change his abilities and probably his playstyle outside of his ult would be heavily affected If his personnality change as well it wouldn't be Galio anymore Riot already made me stop playing Xerath since the rework, i don't want the same to happen with galio (especially since i got all his skins and they're not putting the possibility to refund them after the rework if the rework doesn't please us)

Janna mìd1 votes

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As a Galio main it would really piss me off I mean they're going to change his abilities and probably his playstyle outside of his ult would be heavily affected If his personnality change as well it wouldn't be Galio anymore Riot already made me stop playing Xerath since the rework, i don't want the same to happen with galio (especially since i got all his skins and they're not putting the possibility to refund them after the rework if the rework doesn't please us)

Plus Galio's personnality revolve around protecting people, his failure, and his determination that had reborn (thanks to poppy btw), so he can't really be bad with this kind of lore, he is more like a nice gargoyle, that has hope and regrets and want to make the world a better place for the people he does not loathe

Bunnymap1 votes

I don't think Warwick is really a vigilante, I'm pretty sure he would kill anyone in his way. The people he were chasing in the cinematic just happened to be criminals.

LunSeiSleidee1 votes

Yeah it's not like we have enough dark&gritty champs.....

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