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[11.2] The ODST - Tank Galio Support

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Runes: Aftershock (Tanky)

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Resolve

Aftershock

Font of Life

Bone Plating

Overgrowth

Sorcery

Manaflow Band

Transcendence

Bonus:

+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+6 Armor

Spells:

1 2

Exhaust

Flash

Ranked #57 in
Middle Lane

Win 53%

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Full Build Examples

Example #1: Supporty

Example #2: Engage

Extra Gold

Ability Order W>E>Q (Recommended)

Galio Passive Ability

OVERVIEW

Galio Support is a fairly niche pick that ends up being incredibly effective into certain matchups. He's got fairly good engage, outplay potential, and forces the enemy into playing a certain way to avoid your ult and disruptive nature.

Overview: Pros/Cons

PROS

+ Strong engage potential, able to taunt a whole team
+ Naturally tanky
+ Surprising damage potential
+ Very powerful ult with lots of range
+ Extra strong against teams with high magic damage

Galio Support is able to act as a very powerful guardian for his team, helping his ADC obtain kills on one end of the map before ulting to save his jungler brawling on the other. His mere existence makes the enemy play differently as he may show up to assist a teammate and turn a fight at any time.

CONS

- Slow
- Reactable
- Team-Reliant

Because of this, Galio therefore relies on his team. He can't onto himself meaning, if he wants to get any mileage out of it, he needs a teammate to target. He also isn't super effective at doing damage alone especially because all of his abilities have a noticeable start up to them.

Overview: Summoners

	Flash: Nearly all champions need Flash as it is the most flexible summoner spell in the game. Galio used to be able to Flash during his Shield of Durand but sadly he no longer has this combo. He can still flash first before casting the ability though it gives the enemy more time to react.
	Exhaust: A safer pick that scales well into the game. Ideal against burst or a particularly fed opponent, alongside having a slow to help setup kills.
	Ignite: A summoner spell best used for lanes you believe you are going to win as it allows you to finish off opponents after an all-in.

RUNES

There are two main rune choices for Support, one for a massive speed-boost, and one for general tankiness.

Runes: Resolve

RESOLVE

We take the tree because there are many runes that enhance Galio's survivability.
effectively allows Galio to taunt multiple targets, or attempt to charge directly into the enemy team and still survive, making it easily the best keystone for . isn't a terrible choice, especially because actually readies on the target on-cast meaning you can potentially save a teammate's life somewhat like a .

provides additional healing to your allies for anyone you CC. Galio is particularly good at CCing multiple targets at a time, helping your team just a little bit during any fight. is also not a terrible choice due to Galio's passive naturally giving him a shield, but it usually falls short of .

A choice between or . In general, Bone Plating is better in lane while Conditioning aids in Galio's tankiness outside of lane.

is ideal for late game in order to add to your bulkiness. is also a good choice for whereas the additional healing/shielding with isn't terrible, but doesn't add up to much over the course of a game.

pairs nicely with and the free allows you to survive certain plays you may not otherwise, such as -ing into the middle of an enemy team or to aid in a tower dive and living.
is ideal for sustain in lane with additional mana as has the tendency of being poked down and running out of mana. He can optionally sell the biscuits for additional gold.

Galio's shards are very flexible. In general, he should bring shards depending on the primary damage type of his lane matchup.

Runes: Inspiration

INSPIRATION

We take the tree because it provides the best tools to help Galio engage in and out of lane.
is an incredibly unpopular Keystone which revolves around randomness. Now for a Support Galio, your major keystone is not all that important. The focus of the Inspiration tree is bringing anyway, but is not even a bad keystone and, instead, requires you to play around what you get. It's also not entirely random as you are more likely to get certain keystones depending on the situation.
, on the other hand, is objectively less random than but also a lot less fun.... That being said, the ability to choose what summoner spell to use is strong throughout the game.

The general opinion on Hexflash is usually pretty mixed. Some do not like it, believing it to be fairly useless and essentially baiting you into making bad engages whenever it's off cooldown. Others see its usefulness, whether it's enabling you to take creative flank and ganks, or helping you escape bad situations. For someone like , you can easily Hexflash over a wall from out of vision and taunt a whole team, especially aiding in the fact Galio cannot punch through walls.

helps with your sustain in lane, essentially functioning as free potions. If for some reason you don't find a use for them, you can even sell them for a bit of additional gold.

is a general rune of deceptive usefulness. It reduces the cooldown of your abilities, your items, even your summoners. Due to this, can make more frequent uses of his abilities, and even helps with reducing the cooldown of items such as .

represents the second part of this two part combo involving Hexflash and . The speedboost you get from is equivalent to the one you get from smite even though Hexflash has a substantially shorter cooldown.
applies to nearly everything you have, including your Q, Nimbus Cloak, your items. The speed boost it provides is fairly substantial.

The shards Galio can bring are fairly flexible. In general, you want to bring defensive shards depending on what support/adc combination you are facing.

CONCLUSION

Galio Support is very fun and effective. Consider trying him on occasion.

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