Galio Top Guide (Latest Patch) - Rock Solid Plays to Soar Above the Rest!

With this ultimate Galio top guide (latest patch), you'll be grounding foes and taking flight to victory!

Galio Top Runes:

Primary Tree (Resolve):

Grasp of the Undying: Provides sustain and bonus damage. Great for trading in lane.

Shield Bash: Enhances your trades after using a shield or gaining one.

Bone Plating: Reduces damage from trades, making you tankier in short engagements.

Overgrowth: Increases your max health as you farm, enhancing your tankiness.

Secondary Tree (Domination):

Cheap Shot: Deal additional damage to champions with impaired movement or actions.

Ultimate Hunter: Reduces the cooldown of your ultimate, allowing you to use it more frequently.

Stat Shards:

+8 ability haste

+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)

+15-140 HP (lvls 1-18)

Galio Top - Summoner Spells:

‍Flash: Essential for positioning, escaping, or engaging.

Teleport: Allows you to quickly return to lane, split-push, or join team fights across the map.

Galio Top Full Item Guide:

Starting Items:

Aggressive Start:

Dark Seal + 3 Health Potions

When to Buy: Opt for Dark Seal when you're confident in your ability to secure kills or assists without dying too often. It provides AP and a stacking mechanic that rewards aggressive play and snowballing.

Standard Start:

Doran's Ring + 2 Health Potions

When to Buy: This is a solid all-around starting item for Galio. It provides health, ability power, and mana regeneration. It's a safe pick in most matchups.‍

Passive/Farming Start:

Tear of the Goddess + 3 Health Potions

When to Buy: If you anticipate a passive laning phase where you'll be using abilities frequently to farm from a distance or if you're planning on building items that evolve from Tear later in the game (like Archangel's Staff).

‍Rush:

Sheen, Frozen Heart, Ionian Boots of Lucidity

Core Items:

Iceborn Gauntlet, Demonic Embrace, Warmog's Armor

Galio Top - Full Items Guide:

Why these items?

Frozen Heart: Provides armor and reduces the attack speed of nearby enemies, great against AD champions.

Iceborn Gauntlet: Enhances your auto attacks after using an ability, providing more damage and a slow.

Demonic Embrace: Deals additional damage over time and provides bonus resistances.

Warmog's Armor: Grants massive health and health regeneration.

Spirit Visage: Increases healing and provides magic resist.

Galio Top - Ability Skill Order:

Winds of War (Q)

Shield of Durand (W)

Justice Punch (E)

Hero's Entrance (R)

Galio Top - General Playstyle:

Laning Phase: Focus on farming and using your Q to poke the enemy. Use W to mitigate damage and E for engaging or escaping.

Mid Game: Look for opportunities to use your ultimate (R) to assist your team in fights.

Late Game: Serve as a frontline tank for your team, initiating fights and peeling for your carries.

Advice on Farming as Galio Top:

Use your Q to clear minion waves quickly.

Remember that your passive, Colossal Smash, can help with last-hitting.

Team Fights as Galio Top:

Engage with E or a well-placed R.

Use W to taunt key enemy champions, especially their carries.

Protect your own carries and disrupt the enemy team with your crowd control.

Dragon and Baron fights as Galio:

Dragon and Baron: Use your R to quickly join fights around these objectives. Your W can be crucial for securing them by taunting enemies away.

Galio Top Matchups:

Bad Matchup: Aatrox (Extreme threat)

Good Matchups: Specific champions were not provided, but generally, Galio does well against champions he can easily taunt and poke with his Q.

Synergies:

Champions that can dive in with Galio, like Jarvan IV or Zac, can make great use of his ultimate for combined engages.

Enjoy this ultimate Galio Top guide (latest patch).