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.
Many of Ziggs' abilities have long cooldowns. Try catching him just after he's used his abilities.
Ziggs' ultimate, Mega Inferno Bomb, deals more damage in the center of the explosion.
Don't step on Ziggs' mines! They'll slow you and make it much easier for him to hit you with his other abiltiies.
The stats shown on this page clarify several vital Galio vs. Ziggs matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Galio’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ziggs’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Galio may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Ziggs..
Galio normally has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Ziggs. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Galio usually loses when trying to fight Ziggs, with a 47.1% win rate. As a result, Galio makes a bad counter to Ziggs.
While Galio does have a lower win rate compared to Ziggs, when they face off with one another, Galio also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Galio into Ziggs.
Moreover, Galio also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ziggs. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Galio vs Ziggs matchups, Ziggs is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Galio is a terribly counter to Ziggs. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Galio against Ziggs.
To truly master Galio to counter Ziggs during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Galio typically picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Ziggs. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Galio versus Ziggs build consist of Everfrost, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Demonic Embrace. When Galio combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs. Ziggs than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Galio boasted an average winrate of 47.1% when countering Ziggs with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Ziggs as Galio, you should use 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 Ziggs counters, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Ziggs as Galio are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.