User blog comment:Poisonshark/Champion Rework: Galio, the Sentinel's Sorrow/@comment-5588011-20140804162536/@comment-25235491-20140804172743

Okay, I suppose that I should convey my intent better.

I am trying to have Galio as what his official roles are: a mage-ish tank. Since his primary role is tank, he should be played top. This in and of itself is a change from the support-in-everything-but-name Galio we know.

Also, everyone agrees that W is completely overpowered. I've taken out the team boost, because even for 4 seconds, a defensive Baron Buff is too much. I erased the team boost. And the AP boost too, because he already has his passive for that. I'll add scaling on the W, otherwise  completely overshadows it. Plus it encourages building Galio's core stat which should remain magic resist. Which would make him a hard counter to AP top-laners of nowadays ( / / ).

I think that he still looks a bit too much like a mage, but the Q and E can't look like tank skills, or else this Galio's gonna be in name only...

His mana costs are not exactly "low", just lower than the original, except that actually solves his mana problems by itself, just like everyone else. I don't think it doesn't so until a while in the game.

I'm not really sure what to do with his E, since he's supposed to be a tank first, which is why I buffed his self-utility since E doesn't do a thing on enemies... this is rather complicated to rework with my intentions.