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.
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
The Galio Aatrox synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aatrox, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aatrox. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Aatrox helps Galio perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Galio is an ally to Aatrox, he gets a little decrease in his total damage output. This change could signal that Aatrox doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Galio is played together with Aatrox on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Aatrox.
Additionally, when Galio plays with Aatrox on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Aatrox does a decent job of protecting Galio in teamfights.
There is no top synergy for Galio that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, overall, Aatrox is a good teammate for Galio. By locking into the same team as Galio, he raises their win rate by 2.5% to 53.1%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Galio and Aatrox that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Aatrox has a lower difficulty than Galio. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Aatrox comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by pairing Galio and Aatrox together, you may not be providing your side much support. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Aatrox teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Galio to synergize with Aatrox during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Galio and Aatrox synergy build consist of Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Galio included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Aatrox than with most other typical builds. In fact, Galio had an average winrate of 53.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Aatrox with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Aatrox with Galio are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.