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.
LeBlanc's ultimate can create fake LeBlancs during her spellcast or, rarely, at a distant position.
The fake LeBlanc created at a distance will always run at the nearest Champion, cast a harmless spell, then immediately disappear.
Attacking LeBlanc first avoids most of her tricks, especially if she's recently used her dash, Distortion.
Stunning or silencing LeBlanc will prevent her from activating the return part of Distortion.
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some vital Galio against LeBlanc counter statistics that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Galio’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than LeBlanc’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Galio may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than LeBlanc..
Galio often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to LeBlanc. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Galio usually wins when taking on LeBlanc, with a 56.3% win rate. Thus, Galio makes a fantastic counter for LeBlanc.
While Galio does have a much higher winrate than LeBlanc, when on opposite teams, Galio also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champ to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Galio into LeBlanc.
Furthermore, Galio has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to LeBlanc. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Galio vs LeBlanc matchups, Galio is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Galio is a great counter to LeBlanc. Focus your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Galio against LeBlanc.
If you would like to truly master Galio to counter LeBlanc during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Galio typically racks up a similar amount of CS compared to LeBlanc. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Galio versus LeBlanc build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Galio combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better countering LeBlanc than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Galio had an average win rate of 56.3% when countering LeBlanc with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating LeBlanc as Galio, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Galio vs LeBlanc clashes, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 56.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat LeBlanc as Galio are shown for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.