Leona vs Galio
How to Beat Galio as Leona
based on 3,599 Leona vs Galio matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Galio Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Galio Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Galio as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Galio
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona vs Galio Counter Stats
How to Counter Galio with Leona in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some influential Leona versus Galio matchup statistics that can help us grasp the differences between the two. For instance, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Galio’s ratio of NaN, showing that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Galio. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Leona often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Galio. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Leona and Galio
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Who is Better, Leona or Galio?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when playing against Galio, with a 51.8% win rate. As a result, Leona makes a good counter to Galio.
While Leona does have a higher winrate compared to Galio, when they face off with one another, Leona also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Leona into Galio.
Furthermore, Leona has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Galio. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Leona vs Galio matchups, Leona is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Leona is a decent counter for Galio. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Leona against Galio.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Leona to counter Galio during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona most often picks up a lot less CS compared to Galio. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Leona versus Galio build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better countering Galio than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Leona had an average win rate of 51.8% when countering Galio with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Galio as Leona, Leona players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Leona vs Galio counterpicks, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.8% win rate overall.
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