Akshan vs Galio
How to Beat Galio as Akshan
based on 1,781 Akshan vs Galio matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Galio Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Galio Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Galio as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Galio
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
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.
Akshan vs Galio Counter Stats
How to Counter Galio with Akshan in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several important Akshan versus Galio matchup statistics that may help us grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Galio’s ratio of NaN, showing that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Galio..
Akshan typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their matchup does. Commonly, they takes a similar amount of damage to Galio. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akshan and Galio
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Who is Better, Akshan or Galio?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akshan usually loses when taking on Galio, with a 48.2% win rate. Thus, Akshan makes a bad counter for Galio.
While Akshan does have a lower winrate compared to Galio, when on opposite teams, Akshan also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less time consuming champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Akshan into Galio.
Additionally, Akshan also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Galio. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Galio matchups, Galio is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Akshan is a somewhat poor counter for Galio. Focus your actions on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akshan against Galio.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Akshan in order to counter Galio during both the early game 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 stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan typically racks up a similar amount of CS as Galio. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Akshan versus Galio build consist of Blade of The Ruined King, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan used at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better vs. Galio than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Akshan boasted an average winrate of 48.2% when playing against Galio with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Galio as Akshan, you should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Akshan vs Galio counter picks, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.2% winrate overall.
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