Katarina vs Galio
How to Beat Galio as Katarina
based on 4,471 Katarina vs Galio matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Galio Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Galio Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Galio as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Galio
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Advice to Win Against Galio
Galio cannot traverse walls with Justice Punch.
Galio moves slower when he is charging Shield of Durand.
Hero's Entrance can be interrupted before Galio jumps into the air.
Katarina vs Galio Counter Stats
How to Counter Galio with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several critical Katarina vs. Galio counter stats that can help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Galio’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Galio..
Katarina usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Galio. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Galio
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Who is Better, Katarina or Galio?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually loses when trying to fight Galio, with a 45.4% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes a bad counter for Galio.
While Katarina does have a much lower win rate compared to Galio, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Katarina into Galioas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Galio. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Galio matchups, Galio is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a garbage counter to Galio. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Galio.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to counter Galio during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina most often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Galio. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Katarina versus Galio build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better countering Galio than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 45.4% battling Galio with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Galio as Katarina, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Katarina vs Galio fights, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.4% win rate overall.
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