Talk:Galio/@comment-25532677-20150308193242/@comment-4922088-20150310050602

Galio has the issue of people treating him like an initiator/main tank, which results in his ult seeming like it's the easiest channeled ability to cancel. You're going in first when you play like that so of course you're going to get cc blown on you if you try to ult.

He's really meant to follow up behind your team initiation, or use his skills to protect your back line.

A lot of Galio's "issues" are because he's an ap bruiser that is played like some weird hybrid of main tank/team primary burst mage.

Personally, I don't get chalice on him anymore. I get RoA because his Q is only a flat 60 mana, it's just his mana pool is garbage causing you to feel so restricted early. That plus the hp lets him get more out of his w, built in defenses means you need health to utilize them.

I've just started to completely ignore his passive, I don't think it's worth trying to maximize it's potential. Here was my build from the last game I played him (top lane vs riven): RoA, Zhonya's, abyssal, Sorc shoes, deathcap. I run cdr through my rune page and don't really know what I was going to build last.

In game I used his insane wave clear to just spilt push and teleported in when fights break out. I left the tanking to my Leona and instead just waited to use my ult when the early big cc was blown.