Talk:Galio/@comment-26203093-20150927053250/@comment-25996306-20151005193703

I find his mana costs are necessary to give mages a slim chance of getting a lead over him, otherwise he'd get to the point of being able to ignore them way too quickly to be fair. It's the main thing that keeps him in check: Buffing his numbers is a safe way to buff him, but ease his mana costs and he'll become an absolute nightmare.

Just looking at how he does in ARAM, the extra mana regen that game mode gives makes a significant difference to his power. It's also why I take a metric fudge-tonne of mana regen runes on him.