This is a fancy ability that can also be a drag. So its nice when enemies are all clumped say the melee part of the very first wave, wait till they are all low, auto one and as long as all the minions are close you'll kill all three minions in one hit. considering its an AOE auto its pretty dam strong. Also its CD gets reduced by using abilities on different enemies, and the key here is the word "enemies". That means minions count. By casting your abilities on minions, you can reduce the CD by 4 seconds for each minion hit. Now the bad side is when you are trying to cs under turret. This passive can ruin your csing pattern and help you lose and entire wave of minions so be careful. One way that you and your opponent will know your passive is up is that there will be a glow around your fist.

Combine old Galio Q with Diana Q and this is what you get. So it is a skill shot that counts as a projectile, meaning that both Braum and Yasuo can deflect it, however it won't remove banshees veil. This is also your main wave clear ability. Lvl 5 with the suggested runes and masteries a Winds of War and a Colossal Smash will clear the entire caster line. The initial on hit does the most damage, but fighting around your Winds of War can help you win trades. Your Winds of War lasts 1.5 seconds, now normally you'd think that this is a very short time span. Well if you consider the fact that Rengar can make squishy champions pop by right clicking on them (so less than a second), then 1.5 is actually pretty long. plus once the initial tornado hits there is DOT (damage over time) which should usually make a more favorable trading spot for you. You can also use Winds of War to zone early levels.

woooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhooooooooooooooo what an ability with so many words. so lets make this simple.

The passive part? thats basically Malphite passive except with magic resist instead of armor. Really useful when you opponent is ap.

The active part is where it gets interesting, so essentially Shield of Durand is and AOE tuant. Yes an AREA OF EFFECT TAUNT MEANING YOU CAN POSSIBLY TAUNT THE ENTIRE ENEMY TEAM WITHOUT BMING. Thats huge in any fight. The time delay is key because if you taunt an enemy chasing you with Shield of Durand what most people don't realize is that the enemy who gets taunted ends up moving slower. Not slow enough to count as a slow, but slow enough to where its significant, it will allow you to regain a little lost ground especially if they are right on top of you. The next cool part is the channel. Hard cc cannot stop the channel. Unless I am mistaken the only thing that can stop the channel is Kassadin Q Null Sphere and the best type of CC; death. Finally the the CD starts when you first start channeling Shield of Durand this is really handy since you can choose to have a channel time for shield if durand . The longer you channel the longer you taunt, and the sooner the ability will be up (or at least thats how it will feel).

Did someone call for Captain Falcon? Cause all you're doing is falcon punching the enemy. The key here is the rewind. Be careful with the rewind because if someone is directly behind you then you won't do the full dash instead it will knock up the person directly behind you.

First Captain falcon, now the Hulk jeez louise. this time combine Shen
and Pantheon ulti and that child is the Galio ult This can be used as an escape or as an engage. I remember when I first used it as an escape, people laughed at me, but at the end of game screen the one laughing was me, because I lived, I was still able to be the CC bot I was meant to be. Using it for escape isn't a bad thing since there is a brief period of time where you have invulnerability. There is a brief channel while you are on land and during this time your ulti can be cancelled so be careful. then comes the damage reduction, in the start of a fight this can be key. say a Nautilus starts with the dive, ulting that nautilus gives you a great spot to ult, incredible pressure and making your current tankier just a bit tankier till you get there. Or you can ult your adc when they are getting chased down, in order to help them out and save their life. However the biggest part of the ult is landing. Landing does a ridiculous amount of damage, and it knocks up people within a certain radius. Great with a Malphite Yasuo wombo. Just don't forget the biggest downside to your ult; the target location when you ult stays the same. So your opponents can re position themselves which is why Galios ulti is so difficult to land, and a fair amount of people can't land it. If you do land it, it'll change the tide of your fight into your favor.

: I personally like the Doran's Ring start since it gives me AP, mana regen and health, all working really nicely with Galio. Usually though if I am getting heavily pressured in lane I almost always comeback with atleast 1 of these (sometimes 2).



: You don't get this item for the base stat of 80 health, rather you ge it for its unique healing passives. Starting the game off with just one of these and 2 Health Potions and you have a ridiculously high sustainability as a tank. after the Doran's Shield update I tried it out and saw how strong it really is.

: I personally like these boots since the movement speed is the highest in combat movement speed. out of combat Mobility Boots are faster but by getting cloud drakes you can make up for that.



: The unique passive on this item blocks 10% of the damage from incoming basic attacks. This makes it a powerful contender against most AD based comps.




: I love these boots on almost any champ minus ADCs. They offer magic resist, tencaity and movement speed. What more can anyone ask for?

: Let me start off by saying, IF YOU DON'T GET THIS THATS YOUR LOST. Now let me explain this items unique passive. When you take damage a percentage of the damage taken is restored as mana, and when you use mana, a percentage of that mana used is restored as health. This item is insanely good on ap tanks that can get ahead. Now if you've read my Maokai guide you see that I don't recommend getting Rod of Ages which has the same unique passive. Now for tanks like old Maokai its usually pretty hard to get ahead in lane (personal oppinion). However when you are Galio it's just so much easier now since you just have damage and cc oozing out of everywhere. Also old Maokai got bonus resistances when he started his ult. In that case might as well stack your resistances sky high, ult, and then your ult makes you unkillable. Galio doesn't have an ult that increases his resistances, so while getting those resistances is also key, boosting your high base damage will allow you to have more of a presence.



: God this item is actually pretty dam fun. So naturally Galio is a CC tank. However sometimes you need softer CC in order to save your hard CC abilities for the right moment. Enter Everfrost. This item has an active ability which shoots out icy bolts that slow enemies allowing your team to catch up to them. Also the Catalyst of Aeons passive which is carried over.



: Stacking mana, health and AP up to 10 times as the game progresses. This just what the doctor ordered. The best thing for you average getting to a tank god Galio. Well rounded item that also has the Catalyst of Aeons passive.



: CDR, mana and an empowered auto. Pair the empowered auto with you Colossal Smash and that's a huge amount of damage that you'll be outputting in a single q auto combo.

: a strong item that offers wave control for those of us who are bad at csing. Also a great item to take against melee opponents since not only will they take damage from you they'll also take damage from the Bami's Cinder effect



: armor, health, movement speed, empowered autos. For high mobility targets or if you you need more speed on the rotations, then I would really recommend that you take this item, the full empowered auto plus your Colossal Smash is deadly especially vs turrets.



: This item has a really cool passive which reduces crit chance, and as an active it it provides an AOE slow, great for targets like Draven, Miss Fortune, or Jinx



: This item is if your ahead, and most of your opponents rely on auto attacks. Getting this item, causes enemies to take damage for autoing you, which is really useful versus a Vayne, Twitch or Tryndamere

: This item offers health, health regen, and magic resist what more can it offer? Oh? What was that? A unique passive that increases healing to the champion that has the item? Works really well with the Catalyst of Aeons unique passive? Well I would never guess that.



: Offers a ridiculous amount of magic resist, and has the passive where it reduces the enemies magic resistance by a certain percentage. That means it also "boosts" your damage to enemy champions



: more of an AP item now, less of a defensive item, but very useful spell shield passive






: Now heres an item. This here is the Teemo, Singed, Malzahar, Maokai counter item. Its unique passive means that you take reduced damage from DOT such as poison, space herpes, suicide saplings and more.

: Gave sunfire the boot, and officially became the most OP tank item in the game. Stoneplate offers magic resist, armor, and a freaking insane passive and active. The passive is if 3 or more champions are near by then you gain +40 armor and magic resist. The active is you grow in size, you gain +40% health and you have damage reduction, and IF YOUR PASSIVE IS ACTIVE WHEN YOU ACTIVATE IT THE BONUS HEALTH GOES TO 100%. If that isn't broken, I actually don't know what is broken.



: armor, magic resist and an active magic resist shield, not a bad item for Galio but since there are alot of other options I really recommend only getting this item if you are really pushed to the edge.



: Take health and add to it an insane health regen passive and that is what this item is. Best advice is to not get it too early, but rather build it later, where the passive really makes a huge difference.



: This item has it all in the name; its a portal to the void. what it does is you place this little portal down and it starts pulling lil minion guys from the void to help you siege turrets. The item also gives you move speed near turrets, armor and magic resist. Fantastic item if you wanna stop or continue to split push.

: So this is an easy matchup and your probably like "wait a moment its an Akali?!?! we might as well hand over the lube and bend over now" pfffft please mates, Galio and Malphite are the same but different. Malphite is an AD champ counter, Galio is an AP champ counter. Heres the thing Akali is melee meaning to fight she has to be up close and personal and that is the Galio domain in this matchup. if she walks up start channeling shiled of durand and walk towards her. she'll either back off or sh'ell lose the fight/trade. Now if she ults to you what happens? SHE DASHES AND APPEARS BEHIND YOU. Falcon pu- I mean Justice Punch her but make sure you aim the punch in the opposite direction of where she is, because then you'll have a point blank Justice Punch which she either has to waste an ulti charge to get out or flash.


: Teemo is an easy matchup because you can gap close and hard CC him with ease. Yeah he might blind you, but he can't blind the Winds of War or stop them from shredding him. Also use your Shield of Durand when he decides to pop his move speed ability, to keep him in place and stop him from running away.


: So theres two ways of fighting kennen; 1)hide behind minions 2)don't. Now (1) is if he is AP. His q will chunk the living daylights out of you like its the revival of the jaws movies. However it is a skill shot so hiding behind minions makes it harder to hit. (2) is if he is AD which has started coming up more and more often. The thing is he can go aggro whenever he wants once the early levels are over. Now lets say you do have to fight, the best way is to catch him off guard. start with Justice Punch and just keep attacking him. Save your Shield of Durand till when he uses his run away ability.


: you shouldn't see this as much in the top side but if you do, you have the stronger early game. Play away from bushes and keep going for the quick trades. Remember he can dodge your Shield of Durand AND Justice Punch with the Twisted Advance.


: Malphite counters AD champs... You're AP.... He has asmash ability...You have a smash passive...he has a bomb ulti.. Yours is a nuke...Yeah I don't see how you should lose that, just trades will be wet noodle fights more or less, and if he builds AP, welp you were born to counter AP champions, so do what you were born to do.



: So once again you counter AP champs. It'll just be a wet noodle fight up top lane, so care for ganks, look for oppurtunities to roam, and remember, nautilus might not have alot of attack damage, but he has a **** ton of wave clear, so he'll be pushing into you.



: You probably think I'm out of my mind right now. fight him early level and keep the pressure up once you hit 6 start roaming. Gangplank doesn't have to roam with a global ulti, however, his early game is much weaker compared to his late game. If he gets the item advantage your done. Also don't get barrel baited!

: So in my oppinion the Nasus matchup is skillbased, the reason is a good Nasus will stack really and there is only so much you can do about that however as long as an ADC can kite, and they have some peel the Nasus will be useless in a teamfight. So the idea is to get your team ahead to the point where if Nasus doesn't back then his team loses but if he does back to defend which he'll have to, his team loses his split push pressure. Plus taking Teleport will help to even the global pressure because u can Teleport to stop Nasus and then make a Hero's Entrance to join a teamfight.


] : So Trundle is interesting mostly because of three things. The first is that he can out sustain you with his passive( King's Tribute) and w( Frozen Domain). Second his q( Chomp) steals a certain amount of AD from you which in turn will reduce your Colossal Smash. Finally his ult( subjugation) will steal resistances and he will gain them himself, meaning he will steal your passive MR and since you deal magic damage, you are effectively useless against trundle. However you are much more effective in teamfights. Your Shield of Durand can help your team out significantly against a Trundle since it is a taunt and he is melee meaning you can slow him down more substantially.



: This matchup is even more peculiar since I've never actually played it. so in theory most Camilles will start a fight launching themselves at you, and if they are somewhat decent they'll be able to do an auto reset from the e and transition smoothly into the q. Early is the time you need to shut her down. Shut her down early and you win, let her get ahead and it'll slowly become a nightmare.



: so Kled and charles are always a fun combo but the key to dueling a Kled is to fight around his w. His auto attack passive from his q turns fights into his favor. If you go in for trades when his passive is down you'll win the trades almost everytime since the attack speed is really slow at early levels. Make sure that its hit and run tactics, in a drawn out fight his passive will come up alot sooner and he'll do more damage than you will.


: So the thing about this yordle is what I like to call "infikite". Once he gets Black Cleaver and Frozen Mallet he will be able to kite you virtually infinitely (can't be infinitely because at some point YOU WILL DIE) the best idea is to wait till his jump is down then get onto him asap. if you can do that you chances of winning or blowing a summoner goes up. Baiting out the jump then getting a jungle gank is also really smart and will turn the tides in your favor almost everytime.

: Jayce is tough due to the fact that he's AD, ranged and melee, and he gets kind of tanky. He also specializes more in burst trades rather than extended fights. A good Jayce will poke you down from afar then go in for the kill, and the other thing is that while nothing can interrupt the Shield of Durand channel, Galio can still be displaced. Jayce can also buffer his Thundering Blow so if Galio tries to dash in Jayce will stop it cold



: Olaf is a ridiculously strong champion. He has ranged poke, lifesteal, cc invunerability and bonus attack speed all built into his kit. So early game he can out poke you, and late game he's immune to CC. Overall he's a lane bully which makes it especially difficult for you, and a fed Olaf wins games, since its really difficult to stop.



: So a bad Tryndamere you'll be able to beat him early game and in the early stages of the mid game as well, but a good Tryndamere play it extremely safe, its a devastating match up since he can't die.

-This is where you dive and you keep diving. Your like a gnat, super annoying and super distracting (just a supersized gnat). What really helps with this type of Galio is if your team is winning and your adc is ahead and has sources of peel. It also works well if you have another source of engage like say Sion. It's pretty self explanatory: you rush the back line and try to kill them thus causing a distraction and confusion in the team allowing your carries to re position and take people out. The downside to this is if your carries go down then this method becomes alot tougher.

-You stay with one of your carries and you cc the hell out of whoever tries to kill them. You do whatever you can to save them, you are channeling your inner Braum and becoming an unbreakable shield for them. The downside to this method is that it is a counter engage fight. Meaning you have to wait for a fight, if the enemy is stalling then they'll most likely go for the split, they won't engage thus making this method useless