Galio vs Lissandra
How to Beat Lissandra as Galio
based on 408 Galio vs Lissandra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Galio vs Lissandra Matchup Summary
Best Galio vs Lissandra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lissandra as Galio
Tips for Playing as Galio against Lissandra
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 Lissandra
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
Galio vs Lissandra Counter Stats
How to Counter Lissandra with Galio in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some strategic Galio against Lissandra counter stats that may help you understand the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Galio’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lissandra’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Galio may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Lissandra..
Galio typically has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Lissandra. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Galio and Lissandra
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Who is Better, Galio or Lissandra?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Galio usually fairs equally well when facing off against Lissandra, with a 49.5% win rate. As a result, Galio makes an ok counter to Lissandra.
While Galio does have a lower winrate compared to Lissandra, when they face off with one another, Galio also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Galio into Lissandra.
Additionally, Galio also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lissandra. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Galio vs Lissandra matchups, Lissandra is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Galio is a somewhat poor counter to Lissandra. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Galio against Lissandra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Galio to counter Lissandra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Galio often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Lissandra. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Galio versus Lissandra build include Everfrost, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Demonic Embrace. When Galio included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Lissandra than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Galio boasted an average win rate of 49.5% when playing against Lissandra with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Lissandra as Galio, you should take the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Galio vs Lissandra matchups, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Lissandra as Galio are given for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.