Talk:Galio/@comment-173.166.87.74-20130226191341/@comment-166.137.209.145-20130304233740

AD mids in situations where you cant lane swap often result in an enemy team having a very uneven imbalance between magic and physical damage. This means building armor will cause problems for their whole team. I once fought a team of all ADs and a Taric, and all my team just bought Thornmail and we won easily. Even then Galio is a very strong farmer and can turret farm easily. Just start with some mana pots, rush chalice, be super careful when farming, try to keep them from roaming (and call MIAs if they do). Lots of armor items can work Into a Galio build (Glacial Shroud and Seekers Armguard are among core items for me), mitigating the damage. And of course Galio offers excellent, high range poke to wittle down your opponents from a safe distance, making them eventually susceptible to an E-R W-Q-Ignite (or some variation) wombo combo finisher. I get a fair amount of lv 6 combos catching aggressive AD mids off guard.

Really, just build to their team; even without Galios passive he offers far more to the team than just a tanky countermage.

(Also Ninja Tabi and Warmogs.)