Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
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 show some influential Annie vs. Galio counter statistics that may help you explain the distinctions between the two. As an example, Annie’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Galio’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Annie may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Galio..
Annie typically has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. On average, she receives less damage than Galio. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Annie usually loses when taking on Galio, with a 46.1% win rate. Therefore, Annie makes a bad counter to Galio.
While Annie does have a lower winrate than Galio, when facing one another, Annie also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champ to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Annie into Galio.
Furthermore, Annie also 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 fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Annie vs Galio matchups, Galio is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Annie is a bad counter for Galio. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Annie against Galio.
If you would like to truly master Annie in order to counter Galio during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Annie typically gets a similar amount of CS compared to Galio. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Annie versus Galio build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Stormsurge. When Annie used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Galio than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Annie had an average winrate of 46.1% battling Galio with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Galio as Annie, Annie players should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Manaflow Band runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Annie vs Galio counterpicks, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.1% win rate overall.
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