Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Hero's Entrance can be interrupted before Galio jumps into the air.
Galio cannot traverse walls with Justice Punch.
Galio moves slower when he is charging Shield of Durand.
The stats shown here feature several strategic Ahri vs. Galio matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Galio’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Galio..
Ahri normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives less damage than Galio. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ahri usually loses when facing off against Galio, with a 48.6% win rate. Thus, Ahri makes a bad counter for Galio.
While Ahri does have a lower winrate compared to Galio, when on opposite teams, Ahri also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Ahri into Galio.
Additionally, Ahri has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Galio. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Galio matchups, Galio is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Ahri is a somewhat poor counter to Galio. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Ahri against Galio.
If you would like to truly master Ahri in order to counter Galio during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri most often picks up a similar amount of CS as Galio. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Ahri versus Galio build include Everfrost, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Ahri included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting Galio than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Ahri had an average winrate of 48.6% when countering Galio with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Galio as Ahri, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Time Warp Tonic runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Ahri vs Galio counters, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.6% win rate overall.
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