Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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.
The stats shown on this page show several influential Lee Sin versus Galio matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Lee Sin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Galio’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Lee Sin may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Galio..
Lee Sin normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Galio. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Lee Sin usually loses when trying to fight Galio, with a 47.2% win rate. As a result, Lee Sin makes a bad counter to Galio.
While Lee Sin does have a lower win rate compared to Galio, when on opposite teams, Lee Sin also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Lee Sin into Galio.
Furthermore, Lee Sin has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Galio. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Lee Sin vs Galio matchups, Galio is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Lee Sin is a terribly counter for Galio. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Lee Sin against Galio.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lee Sin to counter Galio during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lee Sin most often gets a lot less CS as Galio. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Lee Sin versus Galio build include Black Cleaver, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Lee Sin used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Galio than with most other typical builds. In fact, Lee Sin had an average winrate of 47.2% battling Galio with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Galio as Lee Sin, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Lee Sin vs Galio counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.2% winrate overall.
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