r/galiomains

This is not to suggest AD Galio to be built rn and that is completely troll.

My idea, however, is how better bruiser AD + HP items are compared to AP bruiser items and how much easier is to go AD bruiser into offtank compared to AP bruiser into offtank.

If Galio scaled with AD, that would allow us to

* Mawmortius and Edge of Night: Actual anti-mage items, infinitely better than Banshee Veil.

* Titanic Hydra/Overlord: now a Colossal Galio going hard on HP items would actually have damage.

* Sterak: Tenacity, a big shield that scales with max HP.

* Heartsteel: Not directly but since it does physical damage it synergizes better with bruisers that can go BC.

On the side of HP + AP items it feels that most items are underwhelming and except Udyr/Mordekaiser/Volibear no champion can actually go bruiser into offtank. And all these have in common that they have consistent magic dage applying effects for maximizing Liandries and Bloodletter effect.

I’m not new to the game but I’m still a beginner at it. So far I’ve mostly played jungle and bot lane, I’ve decided to play mid recently because I prefer laning to clearing jungle, but I like being able to roam and teamfights.

So I decided to learn midlane, its been a little difficult tbh but I’ve found some champs I really enjoy, Galio is one of them. I’m wondering if there are any resources that are particularly good for learning Galio.

I want to be able to properly understand his builds and when to pick which runes for him, usually I can just find a normal guide on youtube but alot of the galio ones are older.

Also, I know people say to otp, but I enjoy the game way more when I have a pool of 2-3 champs to play in a role, so if anyone has any advice on who to learn alongside him that’d be great.

With the nerf to the ability haste on Rocketbelt is there a different item to go when playing Bruiser Galio? Before I would go Rocketbelt - Boots - Rift, do I now just drop Rocketbelt? and do Rift - boots - Mandate/Bloodletters, Maybe Cosmic first?