Talk:Galio/@comment-24971427-20170324025350/@comment-3148314-20170324140941

I mostly played him as a tank with both resistance types, even midlane (with a greater emphasis on MR). It wasn't until this season that I wanted to see why apparently most people seemed to prefer full AP Galio.

It pretty much turned out that, imo, both build paths were equally strong thanks to his W. What the one build lacked in damage, it made up with tankiness bolstered by the heal on W; what the other lacked in takiness it made up with damage and a stronger heal on W.

'If that answers your question, you don't have to continue reading. Since I mentioned his W before, I now want to comment on what has changed since the rework.'

This is something I miss on the reworked Galio, since his new W only reduces damage while it's being channelled - without healing him - and it prevents Galio from casting any other ability, which adds a weakness on top of the inbuilt slow, no matter whether you are a tank (full reliance on the damage reduction) or a mage (squishy without the DR, but unable to burst while channelling it).

This wasn't the fact with his old W: you could activate and continue with whatever you were up. The strong part, which now got removed: you could heal from any source of damage including minions, which gave old Galio a huge advantage in terms of sustainability.