Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
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 stats shown on this page clarify several significant Orianna vs. Galio matchup stats that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Orianna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Galio’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Orianna may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Galio..
Orianna typically has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Typically, she receives less damage than Galio. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Orianna usually loses when facing off against Galio, with a 46.8% win rate. Therefore, Orianna makes a bad counter for Galio.
While Orianna does have a lower winrate than Galio, when on opposite teams, Orianna also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Orianna into Galioas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Orianna also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Galio. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Orianna vs Galio matchups, Galio is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Orianna is a bad counter for Galio. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Orianna against Galio.
To learn all of the intricacies of Orianna in order to counter Galio during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Orianna often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Galio. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They 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, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Orianna versus Galio build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better versus Galio than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Orianna boasted an average winrate of 46.8% when countering Galio with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Galio as Orianna, Orianna players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Orianna vs Galio face-offs, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Galio as Orianna are presented for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual division, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.