Galio with Katarina
How to Synergize Galio and Katarina
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Galio Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Galio vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Galio and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Galio with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
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.
Galio Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Galio in LoL
The Galio Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Katarina helps Galio perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Galio is an ally to Katarina, he observes a big decrease in his full damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Katarina does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Galio is played together with Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Katarina.
Additionally, when Galio plays with Katarina on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Katarina does a poor job of protecting Galio during team fights.
Synergies between Galio and Katarina
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Is Galio better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Galio that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Katarina is a terrible ally for Galio. By playing on the same team as Galio, she drops their win rate by -3.4% to 47.2%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Galio and Katarina that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Galio. That means you must be careful when enlisting Katarina comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Galio and Katarina together, you may not be giving your other teammates very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Galio to synergize with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to use in your Galio and Katarina synergy build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Galio combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Katarina than with many other typical builds. In fact, Galio had an average win rate of 47.2% helping carry Katarina with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Galio players should use the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.2% win rate overall.
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