Hello, average colossus enjoyers!

I have seen some changes in the past few weeks and I'm quite curious about Galio current build status. The past buffs on Imperial Mandate apparently changed the standard build, since I have been searching in different places and it looks like Imperial Mandate is mandatory in any kind of bruiser/AP build. Also, surprisingly for me, most of the time on full AP builds I see people choosing to build Rocketbelt + Imperial Mandate instead of Imperial Mandate + Shadowflame, even though Rocketbelt is a little bit nerfed.

So, any of you tried to insert this new item on your core build? I confess that last month I have tried, enjoyed, but missed a little bit of raw power.

I saw Crownie going Malphite bot against ADCs, was wondering if the same concept would work since these players just ban Yasuo all the time, was thinking of Galio as a Counter and have AD Resource elsewhere, probably Jungle or Mid AD champ to make up the loss?

For now I go storm raiders. My go to build is protobelt, armor/mr boots, imperial mandate, zhonyas, protoplasm harness, death cap. I want to play as an Ap bruiser focusing on cc for my team. The protoplasm i added bc I want a more "all-round" tankiness in late game. Any tips on what I should keep/change?

Started playing Galio and i feel like electro is his best rune. Do you Guys agree? I like the protobelt build into riftmaker, i feel like you are tanky and still do some decent damage.

I recently started playing galio mid and I like him but to me he does little damage and idk how to build him

Few months ago, I've kinda stopped playing Galio because he just felt a bit bad to play and swapped to Rek'Sai toplane. I've very quickly noticed that I'm really struggling to join fights on time. That made me realise, that the reason was saddly my favourite 25m high perticite goober.

Galio's ultimate is a great roaming tool and a big reason for upping my map awareness, but it also hindered my map movement a fair bit. Since I'm completely used to being able to just appear in the fight when it begins, I'm often overstaying for a wave which then causes me to be late to the teamfight.

I'm currently working on fixing it and this post is in no way meant to be a rant on Galio, but I'm interested about what do yall think about this point of view.

Hey Guys, I'm a returning LOL player. I've started playing a lot this season and have been having a lot of fun with the game.

I'm a G2 Malzahar is my main as I'm starting to learn mid lane and get more comfortable learning maco, especially for clash which is my main focus, and I'm using solo que as my "practice" for trying to get both better at the game individually and prepping for clash.

I've been playing Galio as my back up champion when Malzahar is banned. And in all of my Clash games Malzahar is banned by the other team every game.

I want to try and find the best build for him, but I'm getting conflicting information on what the best build is, and want all of your opinions.

I've been building Hollow Radiance -> Imperial Mandate -> Full Tank. This has worked well in clash, but my team does have to make up for my lack of AL damage.

I've noticed however most people are going full AP, and even then, it's very different how they do it.

I've found Master players playing Hextech Rocketbelt -> Imperial Mandate

And I also found a Challenger player Playing Stormsurge -> Lichbane -> Zhonya's Hourglass.

What are your thoughts? What would the best approach be for clash and/or Solo Que?

Rock Hard

Got him at the EWC! Isn't he cute?

Apparently WASD movement can negate taunts

i tried to play galio top... it's legit unplayable vs bruisers. they just can freeze the wave and u can t do anything about it and u dont have enough dmg to threaten them and ur jungler obv will be oblivious to what he has to do so he wont ever come unfreeze the wave so u ll probably die trying to unfreeze it.

Been playing LOL for a while no, I dont know much about the runes and items one could say. I have been playing Galio support (love the guy).

My main aim is to be tanky AF and a CC Machine Gun. And was wondering is there any way I can like increase his ultimate haste and spam his ult every 60 secs (aiming for less).

This is what I got on my last game, about like 52-58 Ability haste and I did get my ult on 60 sec CD.

So did a bit of research and found these to be the best ruins for my lil experiment

Could I get insights on the items and how to improve this build?

any of yall play full tank galio or just me?

Be warned if playing T1 Galio with both border/signature and a chroma as it does not appear in the loading screen as of today (16/07/26)

I'm starting to learn galio and seeing the nerf at protobelt I was wondering if riftmaker was a better choice now

ps. i tried rocketbelt and it doesnt deal any dmg

ps 2. playing tanky galio when ur whole team is feeding feels horrible. your whole gameplay is based on being tanky to live enough to stay in the fight and cc the opponents while doing some dmg. that's almost impossible to do if all ur enemies oneshots u and it feels way worse than playing in the same scenario with any other champion. I enjoy playing the champion tho, but in games where this happens it's legit almost unplayable

ps 3. so now i think I will try a mix of the full ap build and the tanky build by buying roa as a first item most games (obv if the enemy is full ap i would go for rookern)

ps 4. last update on this. played 1 game where my team wasn't really ahead. roa feels good. it seems a pretty good item overall agaist most champs. i built roa, mandate, zhonya (they were pretty much full ad with rengar), riftmaker rabadon

With the changes to Protobelt do you think it'll still be viable as a first item on bruiser Galio? I've enjoyed rushing Protobelt into Rift, Mandate, Bloodletters but with the changes to Protobelt I feel like going first item isn't good, what are your thoughts on it?

I heard that Riot is trying to balance this "classic League" gamemode by mixing different seasons together and removing "things that aren't fun to play against". Old Galio wasn't played much because he was never in a good spot to be played. The idea that Riot is trying to balance Classic League by getting rid of champs that aren't "fun to be played against" shouldn't apply to Galio. There was nothing wrong with old Galio's design in a "not fun to play against" standpoint. Galio was my first main. I played him in every lane almost except Bottom Carry. I was heartbroken when Riot reworked him because they got rid of his story of discovering who he is and made him so... plain. It might seem like I'm being overdramatic, but I played since early season 2, old Galio was a huge part of playing League for me back in the day and hearing that Classic League was a thing made me so excited that I might play Galio again. It hurts to know that everyone will be able to go back to their champions back in the day, but Galio is going to be excluded.

Me neither...

Protobelt at 120% gold efficiency with good buildup and active was a no brainer. However, the recent changes in the buildup as well as lower AP makes me think that Protobelt is not supposed to be 1st item anymore.

So I've trying BFT 1st. The passive increasing AP by a bit as well as doing more damage on jungle monsters is extremely good macro-wise as this means at any moment where Galio gets the upper hand and momentum it is very easy to use it to help the jungler at doing objectives or stealing the enemy jungle camps, which a regular build simply takes forever to do. The higher AP as well as burn effect makes it much more easily to kill waves with Galio compared to HR or Protobelt. MP is often thought as a wasted stat but a 600 MP slap makes Galio much less reliant on Manaflow Band and DRing.

I'm still trying to figure out optimization post BFT, however. Imperial Mandate giving 35 AH on W, E and R and increasing damage by 7% on a 2400g is very good but a build with no HP items seem too vulnerable to play as Galio and not burst enough compared to 2 MPen items.

I am on a mission to turn all 173(and counting) champions into pixel art sprites. Here is #40/173, Galio, The Colossus.

Rocketbelt changes:

Build Path: Hextech Alternator + Fiendish Codex + Amplifying Tome + 300 ⇒ Hextech Alternator + Kindlegem + Ruby Crystal + 350

Active Cooldown: 40 seconds ⇒ 50 seconds

Ability Power: 70 ⇒ 60

Health: 300 ⇒ 350