Talk:Galio/@comment-11013454-20150813172655/@comment-11013454-20150814122948

Well

The mana thing, i find to be a bit unfair the way he has to deal with it. there are champs who skirt about without a care in the world or just occasionally run outta man. Galio is literally forced to itemize against how rough his mana is on him. Other mages have atleast some kind of 'mana handling' tool. And hte one I proposed is atleast linked to his team to emphasies some of his tanking roots. Using himself only, he wouldn't gain terrible amounts of mana out of it, and he would still need to USE mana to get something out of it when he is alone. But he needs something, anything.Borderline forcing a champion to have to get a certain item is not healthy for their design. And he needs a new passive. God does he need a new one. His old one is so simple and out of date that COMPARATIVELY he just isn't appealing a choice. And that's something to take into consideration. In isolation, galio is a very solid and powerful champion that obviously can perform well. But when you add the 100+ other champions to the mix, he looks weak. No one wants to play him because no one wants to put in extra effort to perfrom as well as other champion's normal rate.

His ult is supposed to be one of the big teamfight terrors. Now there are so many ways for champions to counter it that it needs atleast SOMETHING else, and partial immunity to CC seems fair considering he's a giant bloody statute. Galio's supposed to be a tank. He's supposed to be scary and impactful and be able to direct damage and attention away from targets.

INstead he's a combination of a role that tends to hide behind the lines and the role that gets infront of hte lines. Compared him to Volibear, who gets more threatening just by getting TANKIER. He needs SOME kind of firm focus...something to atleast make him fit with the current meta he's been ignored from.

...Otherwise he'll just keep being one of the least played champions in league. Which makes me very sad