Talk:Galio/@comment-25325968-20150902011432/@comment-26442038-20150902102736

All those buffs excpet the mana buffs would be good on him without totally making him op. With mana buffs, a Chalice would literally solve all his problems early that he could start spamming his abilities. Spamming abilites allow easy waveclear, sustain and lane bullying. You can lower some of his mana costs, but not hugely lowered mana costs that it would mak his laning phase good.

Galio actually needs a weak laning phase otherwise it would easily give him access to be a monster late game. Having good poke, waveclear and utility of a mage/support, as well as tanking abilites and disengage of a tank makes him very annoying to play against. His only actual problem late game is landing a good ult. And if he ever lands a good ult, there is no counter unless you have an Udyr or something.