User blog comment:Ozuar/Galio Rework - From Magey Tank to Tanky Mage/@comment-3466579-20130801211039

The problem with Galio is not about how good he actually is, but in which role can you play him. His skills are far from being "bad", they have some nice damage and utility, plus his ultimate is one of the best in the League. But his skills fail in defining his role: there is something that can belong to a support, something that can work on a mage, something that will be cool on a tank.

Galio lacks a little focus for the current meta, him being able to do mulltiple, mediocre-to-good things, but i also don't like to see champions like him being reworked just to make them viable in a meta team. I mean, i'd love to see some changes to the current meta, if not to see a completely new one. Something that would bring some frash air, so to say, because in a lot of other games the so called "meta game" changes a lot more frequently.

Back to the topic, i'm not sure that your changes will actually turn him into a completely viable pick for the current days standars. "Magey tank to tanky magey"? Where's the big difference ;) ? If you want to make Galio a lot more viable than he is now as a tank (able to perform top or in the jungle), a mage or a support, you need to actually change how some of his skills work.

But again, Galio can be played as he is, he's not a completely useless champion.