Talk:Galio/@comment-11013454-20150813172655/@comment-26442038-20150815055557

Imagine if Galio plays as a support with someone who spams a lot like Lucian or Ezreal, he would have no mana problems and be a lane bully with his insane Q damage (which in your rework stuns now). Galio is also not "forced" to buy a mana item because Athene's is one of his core items.

And Galio's ult is already threatening enough. He is not supposed to have a good initiate. It's better used as a counter engage. Tanks are not always supposed to initiate, they can also follow-up or disengage. Using it as a disengage also makes it harder to interrupt since one of the main initiating tools in the game is cc. Once they blow it, there is less cc that Galio can capitalize on. And his ult and W are meant to direct damage and absorb it for the team like a regular tank.

Also Galio in my opinion is a perfect combination of a tank and mage. He doesn't have the engage of a tank and he doesn't want to absorb cc when he's ulting, but his follow-up, disengage and disruption is about as strong as any other tank. And when your sieging or poking, tanks are useless in this situation, but not Galio. He performs his mage strengths with very good poke and waveclear, as well as disengage for the team if they are to get jumped on. He builds mostly a combination of AP and resistances, which combined with W and ult damage reduction he becomes very hard to kill and deals a good amount of damage with high base damage, MR scaling and good AP ratios. He is not weak just because he is a combination of different roles.