What is a good build for Galio?

Answer 1

Galio The Sentinel's Sorrow

Start items

Health Potion x2

Null-Magic Mantle

Core items

Athene's Unholy Grail

Abyssal Scepter

Mercury's Treads

Endgame items

Zhonya's Hourglass

Rabadon's Deathcap

Banshee's Veil

Build 2

Start items

Health Potion

Faerie Charm x2

Core items

Mercury's Treads

Athene's Unholy Grail

Against Heavy AD

Zhonya's Hourglass

Randuin's Omen

Against Heavy AP

Abyssal Scepter

Endgame items

Guardian Angel

Rabadon's Deathcap

Gameplay

How to lane with Galio, of course depends on your role and the lane you're playing in. Here are some tips on how to lane with Galio.

Solo-lane

You will play in midlane or toplane (most likely midlane). Your main goal should be to outlane your opponent and help out other lanes by ganking if you can. If your opponent is winning, play defensive and request ganks. As long as you don't feed, it's fine. If you're playing against a mage, it should be pretty easy, just buy MR and AP and do twice as much damage as him. Against AD-based champions it's more difficult. In a 1v1 fight they will most likely beat you. Try to stay at range and poke them down with your abilities. Stay in lane as long as possible. At the very least, try to stay until you have 500 gold, enough for your Chalice of Harmony. After this, you can spam a lot more. When your opponent gets low, you can try to finish him with Resolute Smite, Righteous Gust, Idol of Durand and Ignite. Galio can easily push the lane with his abilities so you can choose to do this and gank other lanes.

Support

As a support you should play in botlane with your AD carry. Your goals are different here. You should always try to protect your carry (die to save his life if you have to), ward and don't feed too much. As a support, it's not a big deal if you die, as long as it helped the team. Try to keep it limited though, a KD of 0/10 won't help your team because you can't do anything when you're dead. Help your carry beat the other carry by protecting him, poking your opponents and netting kills for him. With your ult, you can get kills very well, especially if your jungler also comes to gank. Since Galio doesn't have a good healing ability (besides his shield, which you can use to heal by putting it on yourself and tanking some minions), try not to get poked too much. Always keep your lane warded to watch for incoming ganks. Counter the enemy support by buying Vision Wards and Oracle's Elixir if necessary.