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 here show some significant Nilah vs. Galio counter statistics that can help us explain the differences between these two champions. For instance, Nilah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Galio’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nilah may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Galio..
Nilah often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their enemy does. On average, they takes a similar amount of damage to Galio. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nilah usually fairs equally well when taking on Galio, with a 50.5% win rate. As a result, Nilah makes an ok counter for Galio.
While Nilah does have a higher winrate compared to Galio, when they face off with one another, Nilah also has a much greater learning curve that makes them a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Nilah into Galioas their relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nilah also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Galio. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nilah vs Galio matchups, Nilah is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Nilah is a decent counter for Galio. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nilah against Galio.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nilah in order to counter Galio during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nilah often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Galio. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Nilah versus Galio build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Immortal Shieldbow, and The Collector. When Nilah bought at least these three items in their build, they did much better versus Galio than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Nilah boasted an average winrate of 50.5% battling Galio with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of beating Galio as Nilah, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Nilah vs Galio counters, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.5% winrate overall.
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