Talk:Galio/@comment-1330314-20170308081323

Just got done editing the new abilities, let me know what you think.

Personally, I'm really not a fan of new Galio. Old Galio definitely had some pretty big gameplay issues and needed some work done, but he had a lot going for him, including a unique, potentially quite deep personality (he's a brooding sentinel, watching over Demacia and protecting its citizens while mourning the death of his creator), and an interesting gameplay niche as a backline-focused warden/battle mage hybrid. All of these are features that could, and should have been kept on his character, and he should've remained a champion focused on strategy, ally interaction and measured approach, rather than lots of mobility or even all that much crowd control outside of his ult.

Instead, what we got was basically some unholy cross between Vi, Zac and Aatrox, with a bit of new Warwick thrown in. There is nothing in his kit that I haven't seen before in other champions, and in practice he doesn't at all play like Old Galio, nor does it feel like he offers anything all that new (his W plays almost exactly like Warwick's E, for example), and to make things worse, he doesn't feel at all like a warden or a battle mage. Personality-wise he's been turned into yet another boisterous bruiser obsessed with throwing himself into battle, which not only goes completely against his old personality in favor of a character that we've seen many times before already, but also doesn't even really feel Demacian.

It really feels like the pod that worked on him just never got a good feel of his proper fantasy, didn't care all that much about what players currently liked about him, and instead built a completely different franken-champion using bits of other kits and characters that we've seen already, including in an immediate previous release. In many ways, this feels like Karma's VGU a long while back, which is a shame, since I personally think every major champion overhaul since Sion was a tremendous success. Having this release just after Warwick's just invites further comparison, as WW was a generic champion with an extremely boring kit who got turned extremely successful, all while retaining a huge amount of his old fantasy, mechanics and personality.