Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
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 stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some influential Ahri against Galio counter stats that can help us understand the differences between the two. For instance, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Galio’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Galio..
Ahri typically has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Typically, she receives less damage than Galio. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Galio, with a 50.6% win rate. Thus, Ahri makes an ok counter for Galio.
While Ahri does have a higher winrate than Galio, when they face off with one another, Ahri also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Ahri into Galio.
Furthermore, Ahri has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Galio. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Galio matchups, Ahri is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Ahri is a decent counter for Galio. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ahri against Galio.
If you would like to truly master Ahri to counter Galio during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri on average gets a similar amount of CS as Galio. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Ahri versus Galio build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when fighting Galio than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Ahri had an average winrate of 50.6% when playing against Galio with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Galio as Ahri, Ahri players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Ahri vs Galio matchups, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Galio as Ahri are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you should use the selection menu located at the top of this page.