Across the sands of Shurima, a chorus of howls rings out. It is the call of the dune hounds, voracious predators who form packs and compete for the right to hunt in these barren lands. Among them, one pack stands above all, for they are driven not only by canine instincts, but by the ancient power of the Darkin.
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 feature some significant Naafiri against Galio counter statistics that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between this set of champions. Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Galio’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Galio. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Naafiri often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their counter does. Commonly, they receives a similar amount of damage to Galio. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Naafiri usually fairs equally well when taking on Galio, with a 49.4% win rate. Thus, Naafiri makes an ok counter for Galio.
While Naafiri does have a lower winrate than Galio, when on opposite teams, Naafiri also has a lower learning curve that makes them a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Naafiri into Galio.
Additionally, Naafiri has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Galio. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs Galio matchups, Galio 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 team fights.
Naafiri is a somewhat poor counter to Galio. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Naafiri against Galio.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri in order to counter Galio during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Galio. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Naafiri versus Galio build consist of Eclipse, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Naafiri bought at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better vs. Galio than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Naafiri had an average win rate of 49.4% when countering Galio with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Galio as Naafiri, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Naafiri vs Galio matchups, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Galio as Naafiri are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To filter the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.