needs must serial kill rotund duck puzzle at bday party

Thank you for never being weird, Bryff -

Just made a few vids from last night - 1st game as galio mid - http://www.twitch.tv/1pacov1/c/2726967

Here's a link to the one where we absolutely crushed the enemy team and I turned into a beach ball as zac multiple times:  http://www.twitch.tv/1pacov1/c/2726993

Uploading to youtube.  Hope to catch some games with you folks later tonight. 

Oh god what have I done.

Anyway, you should have ranked w second and e fourth. You don't need it early unless your jungler wants to gank before 4. 

Don't buy magic pen boots on Galio. You either want Merc's or Tabi imo Pacov.

Also, at the end of the game someone was complaining about Galio doing no damage. It wasn't Galio doing no damage it was the Hecarim top (lol wut?). You can't pick 3 tanks on a team and expect massive dps.

Edit: Now that I think about it Hecarim had 0 synergy with your team. You already had a way to initiate team fights with sej ult. Then you could counter initiate with Nami or Galio ult. Hec had no place in that team. 

Top lane should have been Vladimir/Kennen/Riven/Malphite. I know Malphite is another tank, but his ult would have allowed you to shut down vayne who seemed to be the problem for your team, Vlad or Kennen would have good synergy with Galio, and Riven would have fixed the no damage problem. 

Well the, I have now won 2 out of 15 promo series.  Its pretty fun.

0/3 in the last one.  No game was winnable.  I won jungle very time.  Often by a lot (started one game 5/0/8, still lost really badly).  But I cant do anything when my team has multiple terrible players and their team is at least all mediocre.  I can consistently carry 1 terrible player with ww, but they are giving me at least 2 every game.

First game had first pick who insisted on playing Urgot as ADC.  He hit 10 cs at the 8:30 mark.  I'm not kidding.  Bot lane went 1/15, with their only kill coming on my gank.

Second game had mid Lux rush Mejais, then experience "lag".  She went 1/9, but got to 3 stacks on Mejais once.

Third game just had terrible duo queue.

i just want to point out that i don't think the Galio pick was bad there, even if i gave him a lot of crap about "build a team around me guys i am playing _____". He did great in-lane against Brand and the problem with teamfights was either it was immediately canceled (the enemy team was good about that) or it didn't get critical targets (neither Yi nor Vayne).

Although improvements could have been made (better items and skill orders), ultimately that wasn't what lost us the game.

That said: Gunblade/TF Hecarim "does damage". He just dies immediately afterwards #glass cannon melee. There's a subtle difference between the two. (Khan probably could/should have built one damage item and then tank). If you want to play the stats game, he was 9/6/8.  ( ) 

Part of the problem was that we were a lot of towers behind (only got 1 that game, though i think we were ahead on dragons). That said, we had a full-melee team which made sieging a little difficult. Even though Galio has reasonable waveclear, he can't autoattack the tower (not to mention he was our only waveclear). We either had to dive or pull them into an objective, ace them, then take towers. 

Well, my thought process re: galio is developing after playing that one non-ai game.  I was putting together the build and coming up with the general philosophy during those AI matches, but I think I see better ways of doing it now.

1st - mapping an additional key for his bulwark (prob use one of my mouse buttons) to autocast it myself is critical.  Particularly in instances where there is a lot off cc or silences, getting that cast as quickly as possible is incredibly important to the build.

Anyway, that said, laning isn't that much of a problem.  You still rush chalice as your 1st item.  Then continue to build athene's and get your tier 1 boots (you can hold off on boots if needed as you get a pretty big boost from your e).  If you are doing fine, by the time you go for your 1st shop, you've got enough for that stuff.  Then you get a blue and can spam your abilities and dominate your lane.

Things I adjusted in the normal game and think I will adjust more.  Levels 1-3, get q, w, e.  The point in bulwark is primarily there as a safety net in case you get ganked.  While I maxed q first in the normal, I did put way too much into the w early, like brad mentioned.  I'm thinking 1-2 points tops in bulwark early.  So, max R>Q>E>W.  Now, with that adjustment in place, the value of spirit visage as a mid game item is diminished.  This enables you to rush more of a damage oriented item in its place.  I'm thinking you could go with SV as your 3rd item - possibly 4th, but I'm not sure about that. 

Things that would cause me to build sv early?  If the mid I'm up against rushes liandri or if there's any other reason where I'd get a huge bonus from the bulwark. 

Anyway, I still think he's legit and you don't need to build a composition around him.  He has less burst, but has a slow + speed boost for engage/disengage that the whole team can potentially... not to mention his ult.  And he can soak up a ton of damage.  I think we would have fine with a better pick out of top.  And letting yi get out of hand wasn't doing us any favors either. 

karl - might be good to take a short break from ranked and play a few more relaxed games.  Always helps me to take a break if I'm getting burnt out. 

SV is still a pretty legit pick up him, even it was a 2nd item.  I run 6% Spell vamp quints, so that helps as well with SV.  And he gets AP from it as well

+400 Health
+55 Magic Resistance
+20% Cooldown Reduction
+20 Health Regen

(galio passive) - 22.5 AP

The wiki has it listed with a price of 2625 gold.  It lists the actual value of the item at 3664 gold.  Now, add in the bonus galio gets and its worth an additional 489.37 gold for a total value of 4,153 gold worth of stats.  At a price of 2625, that's 1,528 in free stats for galio - AND - that doesn't even factor in his passive.

I feel for you karl.  I hit 10 consecutive defeats today.

OK - so continuing evolution of galio build.  Sticking with max R>Q>E>W (1 point in qwe at start). 

Build thoughts.  So, I just played against bots and was not impressed with my dps at all.  I actually had quite a bit of AP, but it wasn't cutting it.  The scaling on his abilities is rubbish.  Both his q/e get bonus dmg = 50% ap.  So, 100 ap = 50 added dmg.   Once the ability is maxed, that's the only bump you are getting.  The high base dmg values on his e/q make him great early/mid.  Late its rubbish.  You can provide a ton of cc for the team, etc, but you aren't killing anything but the super squishy.  So, my thoughts.

New build - rush athene (this is core imo), liandri (new item try out - some synergy with his q slow for bonus dmg on his e (2% current health gets bumped to 4% current health dmg - plus it gives you mp).  This should be helpful to the team for dmg output.  Not amazing, but helpful.  Anyway, after liandri, merc treads for bonus mr (ap translation) and tenacity).  After that, abyssal for the mr drop + gives mr/ap, so very useful item on gal.  After that, SV or Banshee based on team need.  Last item is flex - could go twin shadows, morellonomicon, death cap, or even aegis. 

Thoughts?

off to bed - had some fun games tonight - thx everyone.  Last game of the night felt like we were struggling a bit early/mid, but everyone came back together and worked shit over then.  I'm frickin tired, so I might have missed a bit here.. but that's how it felt.  Anyway, see archived vids on the steam if interested. 

I learned even more about galio and had a stronger showing.  Honestly, I think I've learned a ton the past few days about him and still think he's super strong (just not secret op)... that said - he's secret op against the right match up and if the enemy team builds liandri's or is brand.  Or let me put it this way... if you see an AP corks (you won't) or a malz - pick galio. Immediately... even if you don't know how to play him.  If you ever get hit by a liandri, cast your bulwark immediately.  If malz hits you with anything but his silence... cast bulwark. 

If you have zero take aways from my galio experiments, try to take this.  Malz = pick galio. 

I don't think most players even think or understand what galio can do with bulwark.  I didn't the other day when I was was whoppin on brad only to see him have more hp after the I spent all my abilities.  That means a ton if someone builds liandri's into you... that said, my best showing as gal was against an AD comp where I shouldn't have picked gal... strange world. 

oh - if you hit the magical 7k views on my twitch stream, take a screen shot.  I might do something nice for you.  That said, I'm going to bed and know the current count.  No prize if I'm not streaming, but if I am and you hit 7k on the dot, I hook you up... if you get a screenie.  Just a nice bonus... not a holy fug thx pacov.  Night all!  Mathematically, I'll naturally hit 7k views in 1-3 days.  Screenshot or it didn't happen.  If you pull it off, post the screenshot here.  I'll let everyone know who won and what I hooked them up with if someone gets it.  You have a small amount of competition (not a lot).  I think I have about 3 other viewers that check this out regularly but don't follow the forums. Anyway, best case pacov gives you a skin for LoL... that you might pick.  Good luck!

I wont be around until maybe Tuesday night. I am going to be camping! 

Making a galio guide based on my recent findings... up for games in a wee bit when that's done.

Galio guide for now - http://www.lolking.net/guides/178751

So, just tried an alternative build and I'm not a huge fan.  You really benefit a ton from the liandry dmg output.  Having that as the 2nd item is pretty strong.  Anyway, I tried rushing chalice, then immediately into the components for spirit visage (bypassing athene's).  Well, I got SV pretty quickly.  You can actually get it pretty fast even if you only get 1 kill, but you feel like you are lacking dmg. 

Anyway, my current thoughts is that you rush chalice.  You don't necessarily need to rush athenes (could take it as the 2nd item).

Brad through out an idea that I'm not sure if I dig or not, but could be pretty strong.  Rush chalice + boots and get twin shadows are your 2nd item.  That, plus your speed/slow + flash should guarantee a kill top or hopefully a kill or 2 bot and secure dragon.  You could afford it pretty easily without taking a major hit imo.  You'd still be lacking liandri's, but you could immediately start building that after.  The strat would be idea on champs that have lower odds of escape (eg not ez bot lane, but its beast mode vs a twitch).