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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several critical Galio vs. Nilah counter stats that can help us distinguish the differences between the pair. Galio’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nilah’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Galio may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nilah..
Galio usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Nilah. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Galio usually fairs equally well when playing against Nilah, with a 49.5% win rate. Thus, Galio makes an ok counter for Nilah.
While Galio does have a lower winrate than Nilah, when on opposite teams, Galio also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Galio into Nilah.
Furthermore, Galio also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nilah. 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 in League of Legends, in Galio vs Nilah matchups, Nilah is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Galio is a somewhat poor counter to Nilah. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Galio against Nilah.
To learn all of the intricacies of Galio to counter Nilah during both the lane 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 stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Galio usually picks up a similar amount of CS as Nilah. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Galio versus Nilah build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Galio incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better versus Nilah than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Galio boasted an average win rate of 49.5% battling Nilah with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Nilah 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 combinations players used for Galio vs Nilah counters, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.5% winrate overall.
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