AD, Fighter Galio?

Onwodori·3/21/2015, 9:30:01 PM·1 votes·952 views

Hey there, Master Fledgling here.

Galio's cool. Just very underrated. He is somehow played less than Urgot, despite having one of the best ults in the game and not looking like a spider. Mech. Fat. Zombie. Thing.

Anywho. Galio's other super cool thing is his W -- it makes him almost impossible to kill with melee for a few moments, which begs the question: Why not build some AD on Galio? His kit doesn't do that much damage, but it does let him chase well, Q slowing and E speed him up. MR, AD items or a Wits End makes sense, giving him damage on his autos and still giving him that AP inadvertently. From there I imagine I'd build tanky, something like a Vi, making him very difficult to duel with his close range damage and shield and, being Galio, he doesn't give a darn about magic damage.

Anyways. Let me know what you think. Maybe I need to test this myself as there aren't too many other Galio players.

Test set is something like this:

Galio ( item 3139 /item 3156 ) item 3091 (item 3111 /item 3047 ) Then general tankiness I figure.

Thanks and see you all on the rift,

-MF

6 Comments

tifas left elbow3/21/2015, 9:36:24 PM1 votes

Interesting. I do like Galio, quite a fun champ. Didn't even think about building him AD before. I look forward to results.

Tsugaga3/21/2015, 9:37:01 PM1 votes

Well that's a lot of MR, so I'd imagine you would use that build against an AP heavy team, problem is that an auto attack reliant Galio might just get kited around, and he can still be easily killed if his shield is down and the enemies have void, which I think an AP heavy team would prioritize against a Galio. He would still have some AP from his passive, but his skills would probably be weak. It could work though.

Peel Your ADC3/21/2015, 11:07:51 PM1 votes

And just who is he supposed to be catching up to if he's AD?

Only time anyone isn't kiting around Galio is when he's already pressed R. And don't discredit his AP ratios, as Luden's Echo adds that extra bit of damage that lets him clear a minion wave with a single Q.

DarkenedSoul4203/21/2015, 11:53:41 PM1 votes

I feel like item 3025 or item 3110 should be thrown in there, he needs some armor if he is gonna be frontlining but ad Galio would be interesting to see

item 3025 would be nice for extra sticking power plus sheen proc dmg

Onwodori3/22/2015, 2:37:30 AM1 votes

Yeah, the first game didn't go so great ... I managed to get first blood, but it went poorly from there. He's better off a tanky-mage or pure, utility tank, methinks.