Galio vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Galio
based on 3,599 Galio vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Galio vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Galio vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Galio
Tips for Playing as Galio against Leona
You can release Shield of Durand even while crowd controlled.
You can use the minimap ally icons to cast Hero's Entrance.
You can use the step back from Justice Punch to dodge enemy spells.
Advice to Win Against Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Galio vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Galio in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several valuable Galio against Leona counter statistics that can help you explain the differences between the two. As an example, Galio’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Leona’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Galio may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Leona. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Galio often has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Leona. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Galio and Leona
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Who is Better, Galio or Leona?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Galio usually loses when trying to fight Leona, with a 48.2% win rate. As a result, Galio makes a poor counter for Leona.
While Galio does have a lower winrate compared to Leona, when on opposite teams, Galio also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Galio into Leona.
Additionally, Galio has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Galio vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Galio is a somewhat poor counter for Leona. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Galio against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Galio to counter Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Galio on average accumulates much more CS compared to Leona. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Galio versus Leona build consist of Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Galio bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Leona than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Galio boasted an average winrate of 48.2% battling Leona with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Leona as Galio, Galio players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Galio vs Leona matchups, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.2% winrate overall.
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