Talk:Galio/@comment-25532677-20150308193242/@comment-4922088-20150311021556

His "weakness" vs AD is a lie. While you may not get any use from his passive, he can still very easily fight AD and I honestly love playing him vs an AD top laner simply because they rely on sustained damage, which is what his W is designed for. If you just play passive until level 3 and go Q-W-Q Galio pretty well beats many of the non-tanky melee top laners.

I use % cooldown runes so I have a natural 25% without itemization(counting the 5% from masteries). It's probably not the best way to play Galio, but I'm used to using that page on people like Vlad, so I'm used to playing around the other stats I'm missing by going cdr runes.

Again, he's not an AP carry, he's an AP bruiser/support. You carry your team by protecting allies and CC'ing enemies. His damage is just really good at chunking, and comes with a lot of utility for how much damage they deal.

Seriously, if you've never tried playing him as a splitpusher, try it. He's really good at it; hard to solo, and can be extremely slippery with his Q slow and E speed boost.