LPL Post Game Review: The New Galio and how to use him

Hello everybody, Shakarez from LolKing here
Welcome to this week’s “LoL Post-Game Review”.
Today’s topic is the newly reworked, super tanky statue of justice: Galio.
In last week’s match between RNG and IMay, RNG’s midlaner, Xiaohu
Suddenly brought out the mid-lane Galio after dropping the first game.
This was Galio's first LPL appearance in the midlane.
Thanks to Xiaohu's courage for bringing out the champion,
We could see that this pick wasn't completely abnormal.
In this episode, let’s talk about this big guy who is both powerful and helpful.
The post-rework Galio is more of a team oriented champion.
Losing a large amount of his old burst potential,
The new Galio gained higher levels of initiation, crowd control, and support abilities.
With a dash ability, a semi global
Three AOE hard CCs that either taunt or knock-up,
And a shield that reduces magic damage,
We couldn’t ask more from a frontline tank.
At the same time, Galio is still a mage.
His Q ability is an AOE with short CD, which allows him to scale comfortably in the
midlane.
Therefore, Galio becomes not only a frontline tank in the late game,
But also a tanky mage who scales well and can be equipped with good items.
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Most of the Galio we have seen in LPL so far have built tank items,
Whether they were top, mid, or support.
This is because Galio’s Q does percent max health damage,
Which means he can build tanky and still have decent damage output.
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Now, let’s talk about Galio’s role in a match.
Despite being recently reworked, he has a very flamboyant kit.
The professional players couldn’t wait to try him out on the competitive stage.
In the final week of the regular LPL season,
Xiaohu brought out the midlane Galio and demonstrated his role
In a perfect comp for him: An initiator in a “protect the ADC” comp.
“Protect the ADC” comp. refers to when most of the team is
protecting the 1 core champion.
The protected champion deals most of the damage on the team.
The ADC is usually chosen instead of the midlaner
Because the ADC has better sustained damage and is not as reliant on cooldowns.
The ADC, of course, must have a high level of ability to carry.
There are more factors to take into account.
Please pay attention to the following details.
First, the choice of ADC champion.
The core ADC must be able to deal a high amount of damage in a teamfight.
Champions such as Kog’maw, Twitch, or Jinx are all good choices.
But these champions usually lack the means to protect
themselves and need to rely on their teammates.
The reworked Galio is perfectly suited for this.
Galio’s abundance of CC abilities can protect his ADC in a teamfight.
This can be combined with traditional support champions such as Lulu, Karma, and Janna
That can give the ADC a ton of shields and buffs.
Second, how to execute the strategy.
The biggest advantage of a “protect the ADC” comp.
is that the strategy is straightforward:
Protect the ADC in a teamfight and let the ADC output damage.
This is also straightforward for the enemy
As they only have to focus on killing the ADC to win the teamfight.
Therefore, the win condition depends on
Whether the core of the composition, the ADC, can fulfill his role and deal the required
damage.
The team needs to prioritize on letting the ADC scale, which means
Playing reactively and not aggressively until the ADC has built enough items.
After the ADC has reached the item threshold, then look to group and siege towers.
The focus throughout the match should be making rotations and building tempo
While avoiding direct confrontations in the Jungle.
Of course, these are just general tips on how to play the comp.
In order to help everyone better understand how to play it,
Let’s take a look at the second game between RNG and
IMay in the 10th week of the LPL regular season.
First, let’s put the spotlight on the main character of today’s show, Galio.
Although this is midlane Galio’s debut on the competitive stage,
He was not contained at all even by the dominant early game laner, Karma.
Galio spammed his high damage Q to continuously push
the lane and avoid direct fighting with Karma.
By keeping himself very healthy at all times while
having to a dash and a damage reduction ability,
Galio discourages the enemy Jungler from even think about ganking him.
On the other hand, Karma could not keep up with Galio’s roaming from his Ultimate ability.
We noticed that both teams are running the “protect the ADC” comp.
The difference is, IMay is using Shen, Karma, and Lulu to protect their ADC as
they can provide a ton of shields for the ADC that
can nullify the threat from enemy assassins.
And RNG uses Kled and Galio as their dual frontliners,
Using their damage and CC aggressively in a teamfight
to create space for Kog’maw to deal damage.
Using the teamfight at 27:15 as an example,
We can see the Kled ulting the enemy team to initiate.
At this moment, Kled is far away from his team.
This could result in him getting picked off and the team formation breaking down.
But, Galio ulted on top of Kled to reduce the damage
they take and change the outcome of the battle.
Now, IMay can neither kill the Kled nor retreat.
They are forced to engage the two frontliners.
The flanking Rengar then follows up the initiation by
jumping in and attracting the enemy’s attention
While under the protective cover fire from the frontliners,
Creating a lot of pressure on the enemy backliners.
Now that the Kog’maw has entered the teamfight,
The enemy team could no longer pose any threat to him
since they have already been pushed to the side.
Shen’s taunt is already on cooldown, and Karma
could not withstand Kog’maw’s focus fire.
After the Karma dies, the enemy team could not
do anything against the Kog’maw
Nor could they protect their Twitch.
IMay could not do anything as their team get annihilated.
As the patches update, ADC’s role within the game
has been steadily increasing in importance.
The old “protect the ADC” comp. became meta once again.
But there are more options than the traditional midlane mage within the comp.
The midlane Galio only has to play the frontline tank role well to easily win the
game.
Offence is the best defence.
Instead of the traditional defensive formation while pushing lanes,
Why not use more aggressive frontliners to create more space for the ADC?
This has been the LPL post game review, my name is Shakarez and I’m translating for
caster Remember from the LPL, see you all next week

LPL Post Game Review: The New Galio and how to use him

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