Talk:Galio/@comment-5763148-20140401175349/@comment-5955640-20140403003901

You will find Malphite and Singed do build AP on occasion. Well Singed always does because his two items that work best with his passive Rod of Ages and Seraph's Embrace are just sort of core depending on the situation. Ontop of that he'll put on Rylais' Crystal Scepter or Liandries Torment to add to his damage and possibly his kiting potential.

Against AD tanky bruisers you have like a lot less options. Say for instance Renekton. That's a tanky bruiser. You won't be able to really stop him from dominating the lane once he buys a Hexdrinker and a brutalizer. You could easily kill him if he's dumb enough to dive you under turret while you have an ult to deploy.

You would sort of end up in what I like to call the Yorick paradox. You harass a person to a turret because you have the range and you are tanky enough and have decent enough sustain to take occasional hits. But once a jungler comes in or the laning phase ends. if you don't shut down your opponent completely and they get experience and farm under turret they start to dwarf you slightly and it feels like your team is missing out on having a good duelist to aid in teamfights.

You'd have to really blow people up. Like to hell and back with your ult to crush your bruiser opponent. You'd also have to not build some Magic resist items and get things like Seeker's armguard early maybe even the third or second item.