Galio with Gwen
How to Synergize Galio and Gwen
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Galio Gwen Synergy Summary
Best Galio vs Gwen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Galio and Gwen
Tips for Playing as Galio with Gwen
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 Understand How Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Galio Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Galio in LoL
The Galio Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Galio sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gwen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Gwen helps Galio perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Galio tries to synergize with Gwen, he gets a noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Gwen does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Galio is played together with Gwen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gwen.
Additionally, when Galio plays with Gwen on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Gwen does a decent job of protecting Galio during teamfights.
Synergies between Galio and Gwen
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Is Galio better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no ideal companion for Galio that will always be his best ally. However, Gwen is a not very good teammate for Galio. By being on the same side as Galio, she lowers their win rate by -1.1% to 49.5%. This signals that there is a bad strategic relationship between Galio and Gwen that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Gwen has a lower difficulty than Galio. That means Galio players don't need to be careful when finding Gwen allies to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, Galio players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Although, by bringing Galio and Gwen together, you may not be providing your side a lot of attack damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Gwen ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Galio to work well with Gwen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to focus on in your Galio and Gwen synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Galio used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Gwen than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Galio had an average win rate of 49.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gwen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, Galio players should equip the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Galio and Gwen pairings, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.5% winrate overall.
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