League of Legends Champion Galio Galio is in the s tier of champions

Galio

Tank Mage
Galio is a tank Role tank
Difficulty Average
Power Spike Late-Game
Colossal Smash ability p
Winds of War ability q
Shield of Durand ability w
Justice Punch ability e
Hero's Entrance ability r
Stats Build Counters
Runes
Synergies
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Galio Build

based on 23,601 matches
Win Rate
51.1 %
Pick Rate
2.6 %
Ban Rate
0.4 %

How We Come Up with Our Galio Builds

We process over 1 Million League of Legends games every day to bring you the most accurate Galio build so you can destroy your enemies and improve you win rate. We've broken down our Galio builds by rank, position, and enemy team type, so you can find the most accurate set of Galio core items and runes for any situation.

Galio Build Summary

Galio is a pretty good middle lane champ in League of Legends. His best rune sets are Sorcery Resolve. Including the specific runes shown below into your Galio build will help provide you with the additional stats to help him play well through the laning phase of the game and into the late game. Galio players should focus on leveling up his q ability first.

Best Build for Galio

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Dark SealRefillable Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Amplifying TomeSorcerer's Shoes

Core Galio Items

~22 Mins
Night HarvesterZhonya's HourglassDemonic EmbraceSorcerer's Shoes

Optional Items

Cosmic DriveRabadon's DeathcapShadowflameForce of Nature

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerdot summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Galio to level up q
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Second ability for Galio to level up w
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Last skill for Galio to max out e

Runes

Sorcery Phase Rush Manaflow BandCelerityWaterwalking
Resolve ConditioningOvergrowth
Adaptive MagicRes MagicRes
Galio's passive ability p
Galio q ability q
Galio w ability w
Galio e ability e
Galio's ultimate ability r
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Q
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W
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Q
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Q
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R
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Q
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W
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Galio Matchups Overview

Galio is Weak Against

Swain Swain 41.2% winrate Rumble Rumble 43% winrate Taliyah Taliyah 45.3% winrate Diana Diana 45.5% winrate

Galio is Strong Against

Ryze Ryze 60.9% winrate Lissandra Lissandra 58.1% winrate LeBlanc LeBlanc 57.3% winrate Katarina Katarina 56.9% winrate

Top Synergies by Role

Swain Swain + 57.6% 516 Games Seraphine Seraphine + 57.7% 189 Games Olaf Olaf + 57.8% 351 Games Kindred Kindred + 59.2% 885 Games

More Gameplay Tips for Galio Players

Tips and Tricks

Winds of War can be used to last hit minions and harass enemy champions.

Channel Shield of Durand to hit as many enemies as possible to initiate a teamfight.

Additional Galio Build Insights

League of Legends Galio players will likely find him to be a confusing champion to build out properly. You will find that his build is modified when he is playing against either well-rounded or homogenous team compositions, showing you should not choose the same Galio build every game of League of Legends

The most essential items to incorporate into your champion's build are: Night Harvester, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Demonic Embrace. Players who included these items in their builds had a higher win rate than players who went for other Galio builds. Moreover, if you are playing a mixed enemy team arrangement, you should strongly consider getting yourself the Sorcery, and Resolve runes. In recent matches, he won the greatest percentage of his games when built with these runes.

We came up with our Galio build recommendations by examining 23,601 recently ranked LoL matches with him in them. We only recommend the highest winrate Galio builds that were built by ranked LoL players enough times for us to suggest them. With so many games in our dataset, we are very confident in our suggested builds.