Galio is a tank champion excelling at Disruption and increasing his team abilities. Galio has a very strong initiation and has the goal of ending the fight with just that. Galio can lane vs most champions in the game and the best part is that he does it SAFELY. Galio late game is a monster that can win the game for his team with just 1 skill.

Passive: Runic Skin- Galio converts 50% of his total Magic Resistance into Ability Power.
Makes you really strong against enemies who have magic damage. Free gold for building tanky, even if you do not itemize for the MR you will still get AP when you use your shield. =D

Q: Resolute Smite- Galio fires a concussive blast from his eyes, dealing 80/135/190/245/300 (+70% of ability power) magic damage to enemies near the impact location, and reducing their movement speed by 24 / 28 / 32 / 36 / 40% for 2.5 seconds. Cost 60/65/70/75/80 mana. Range 900. Cooldown 7 seconds.
Good harassment and farming tool.

W: Bulwark- Galio shields a friendly champion for 3.5 seconds, increasing their Armor and Magic Resistance by 30 / 45 / 60 / 75 / 90. Each time the unit suffers damage, Galio is healed for 25/40/55/70/85 (+30% of ability power) (-20% healing for each consecutive hit). Cost 60mana. Range 800. Cooldown 13 seconds.
Basically puts Rammus's defensive curl ball on target of your choice, and whenever they take damage you get healed.
Note:The MR you get from this gets you AP.

E: Righteous Gust- Galio unleashes a gust of concussive wind that deals 60/105/150/195/240 (+80% of ability power) magic damage to all enemies in its path. A directional draft remains for 5 seconds, increasing the movement speed of allies passing through it by 20/28/36/44/52%. Cost 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90 mana. Range 10000. Cooldown 12 seconds.
Good for poking and farming. In teamfights it is like a mini shurelya's.

R: Idol of Durand- Galio channels for 2.5 seconds, taunting nearby foes and blocking 50% of incoming damage. After channeling, Galio deals 220 / 330 / 440 (+85% of ability power) magic damage to surrounding enemies, plus an additional 10% damage for each attack he suffered while channeling. Max 80% bonus damage. Cost 100 / 145 / 190 mana. Range 550. Cooldown 170 / 150 / 130 seconds.
Using this makes you pull the whole team off your allies, this move is GAME CHANGING. W before you go into this and you will be healing for the first 1/2 of your ult and the pain you will feel from your enemies will be reduced.
Note: I recommend taking flash on galio as flash is very good for the placement of this skill.

Skill Order:
Combos:

Initiation
W-(Flash)-R-Q-E

Poke
Q-E

Yorick (Heal off his ghouls and outscale him into late game), Vladimir (Can't do anything to you), Rumble (You can shield his flamethrower damage and counterpoke harder), Akali (You are to tanky and outtrade her), Malphite (You both serve the same roles, you just serve it better).

Olaf (True Damage> your shield), Udyr (Bear stance>your ult), Garen (Beats you up early), Nautilus (To much CC and sustain), Mordekaiser (Blocks your trades and pushes harder).

• Tell your team the timings on your ultimate and when you want to initiate.
• If you are down on health, you can shield an ally before they run into minions or jungle creeps so you heal off of it.
• To farm, run past the melee minions and make them follow you into the ranged minions, then Q-E and you will get the whole wave.

• Make sure you are not in ranged for Galio's flash ult combo.
• Do not hit him with small damage moves when his shield is up.
• Save a stun (Oh-hit is best) to stop galios ultimate.

Rod of Ages- Makes you tanky, solves mana issues

Frozen Heart- CDR ,armor, a build in debuff aura, and mana if you get this in lane GG autoattkers. <3. rush this vs AD champions

Abyssal Mask- A good source of MR a strong amplifier for your teams AP and gives you decent damage.

Banshee's Veil- Makes your ult harder to stop and gives you nice stats.

Thornmail- More damage off your ultimate

Abyssal Mask- Alot More ultimate damage, Ap MR and the enemy MR drop all help your ult.

Rylai's Crystal Scepter- Good vs tanky team comps, or comps where mobility is key to fight.

Will of the Ancients- Gives you and your team sustain, get this if you have a mid who it works well with.

Force of Nature- Movespeed and magic resist.

Ok here. If you are able to win your lane you can do decently to carry your tem, however they need to know how to fight off your engages.

Galio shines here. He is a strong counterpick and every single move in his kit works well with a coordinated team. He can be picked early as enemies will think he is mid and will not try and counterpick him.

That is it for top facts Galio. I hope this helped you to better understand this gargoyle on the top of the rift. Galio is a strong champion and is a great pick for top lane if your team needs a tank. As always have a good day and good luck on the fields of justice! =D

SERIES UPDATE:
I plan on releasing these every day/other day until I get all of the top lane picks in the league ( about 50-60 of them) if there are any requests leave in the comments below and ill work on them. I want to make this series for others to better understand the champions of top lane. Once I am done (Or once I have a few top facts out) I will release some Facts about top lane mechanics, eventually I will probably put everything into one generic top lane guide, however until I do that I will continue to watch and update my blogs as needed. Tips and tricks I missed under my Top Facts would be helpful if you put anything I don't have in the comments I will be sure to add it. I will be forming a guide called The complete guide to Top lane or something in that nature. The intention of this series is not as a "Build guide" or a "play guide", these are more like facts you should know about the champion. These are to inspire people to think of new champion possibilities they might not have thought of or to help a new player with the champion. I do not list runes masteries or a set build ( I give a kind of recommended items) in here due to the fact I want people to think of that for themselves and try new things. This series is an attempt for the LOL community to try new things and have fun in a fun game. Thank you for reading and have a nice day :P