With Galio on their side, could Demacia ever realistically lose a battle?

SteelMankind··3 votes·1,033 views

Judging by his splash art, the dude's at least twelve stories tall. He's constructed of essentially concrete mixed with the anti-magic ash, so (assuming he's not hollow) he weighs much, much more than your typical tall building.

Hell, the winds caused by a simple flap of his wings would probably blow an entire army away (and likely kill them all from the force of the gust/landing afterwards). I wouldnt be surprised if his ult would cause a global extinction event from the debris sent into the atmosphere blocking the sun. And even if he's not THAT big, galio ult should still level entire cities.

To top it off, the one plot device that could potentially defeat such a behemoth does nothing, since Galio conviently happens to be immune to magic.

So can we say that the only way Galio doesnt autowin every battle (assuming there's magic to awaken him) is through intervention from divine beings like Sol, Kindred, or Bard?

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Variks the Loyal6 votes

Sion can hold his own against Galio. Even Galio himself comments on this.

Galio - "Hah! Ours would be a fight for the ages! They'd find pieces of us for miles around!"

darkdill2 votes

This leads me to an idea on a future Demacia VS Noxus story.

Swain begins a massive invasion of Demacia, and intends to draw Galio out. He then plans to send Sion at Galio to destroy the Colossus while he is in stasis, as Sion's resurrection is not enough magic to animate Galio.

Lux learns of this plot (somehow) and rushes to the battlefield to find Sion has almost reached Galio, with Garen barely holding him back. Lux uses her magic, despite that everyone can see her, and animates Galio, who helps the Demacians push back the Noxians.

It'd be a neat way to change Demacia's draconic mindset about mages, seeing as a certain light mage saved the day.

SteelMankind1 votes

Would be cool, but keep in mind that Sion is just the size of a very large person (probably around 7 feet tall). He doesn't even reach Galio's ankles; Galio could just step on him.

darkdill2 votes

Not if Galio can't move. That's Swain's plan: kill Galio while he's immobile with physical force.

It'd be kinda like how the Gargoyle clan was massacred at the start of the Gargoyles cartoon series: they were smashed while in statue form.

GreenLore5 votes

Thats the thing though. Appearantly Sion is just THAT strong,that he can compete with Galio.

Variks the Loyal4 votes

Sion's unnatural strength is such that if Galio tried to just step on him, Sion would lift the foot upwards off of himself, and toss the colossus to the ground.

TheHappyReaperz3 votes

Sion's height isn't actually known. It was calculated a while back, but that was before his rework.

AlienPrimate1 votes

It never actually states his size but you can guess by the fact that the thing on his chin is J1's crown. Jarvan would be a normal sized or possibly large human with a normal sized crown. In Sion's splash art, the crown looks pretty proportional to his own head so I would guess that SteelMankind is pretty accurate for his guess of 7 feet. He would probably be pretty comparable in size to Big Show who is 7 feet tall and weighs about 400 lbs. although Sion would weigh more because he is more muscular.

TheHappyReaperz1 votes

J1's crown is actually bolted to Sion's lower jaw, which means his lower jaw, which about half the width of your head, is the same size as J1's head. From there, you would need a lot more math than I am willing to do, to figure out how tall he really is.

Berserknurple1 votes

I get what you're saying, and even agree to an extent, but it's actually confirmed by devs in the AMA and in his VO that Sion is capable of going toe to toe with Galio and is still his rival.

This means either: Sion is absurdly, absurdly strong. Which is possible. Even in his older lore he was described as being used as a living siege weapon, taking down fortresses and their walls single handedly (just also killing a lot of noxians) if You look st his armor you can see its purpose built for charging into fortifications with one shoulder.

Or it is only in reference to their status as symbols of their respective countries.

Or it only means that Sion can just walk up and break him apart since he is only made of stone and Sion isn't magical enough to awake him. Which any conventional army could do.

Who knows

Partybringer1 votes

and then Vayne shoots her without question for using black magics

Sharjo2 votes

Well yes; Galio only comes in to play if there's magic about.

SteelMankind2 votes

Easy, Lux just shoots spells at him and he crushes the enemies forces single-handedly.

Berserknurple1 votes

And then Lux is crucified by the Demacians for being a mage. See the problem?

OurLestrade2 votes

Sion

Ralanr2 votes

You know how chem bombs were used in Ionia?

I'm sure anti magic stone does jack shit against chemical warfare.

HalfTangible2 votes

Keep in mind:

  1. He needs a LOT of magic to be used in his immediate vicinity before he can move
  2. As big as he is, he's not the biggest thing on Runeterra, nor the strongest
  3. Galio is not a strategist. He charges at things and punches them hard.

The best way to handle Galio would be to engage Demacia in conventional non-magical warfare, bring something bigger than him, or outsmart him.

DrCyanide1 votes

Immune to magic doesn't mean immune to things influenced by magic.

Make a concrete saw out of the Shurima Sun Disk, spin it with magic, shoot it with magic, and presto! You've got a Galio killing weapon.

Wrathof3001 votes

Malphite could easily 1v1 Galio. In terms of regular armies like Noxus, there is a possibility that they developed artillery to destroy him. Imagine them bombarding him with canons from all around, of course this would have to be done as a sneak attack, otherwise he could just squish them

Meep Man1 votes

Yeah, people just out-physical them, which Noxus could most likely do if they got a lot of Darius' over there. Also, Malphite is a living mountain. He could fight Galio.

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