Thresh vs Galio
How to Beat Galio as Thresh
based on 3,938 Thresh vs Galio matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Galio Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Galio Counter Build
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Core Thresh Items
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Guide to Countering Galio as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Galio
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
Advice to Win Against Galio
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.
Thresh vs Galio Counter Stats
How to Counter Galio with Thresh in LoL
The stats provided here show some influential Thresh vs. Galio matchup statistics that can help us figure out the distinctions between the pair. Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Galio’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Galio. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Thresh often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Galio. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Thresh and Galio
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Who is Better, Thresh or Galio?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Thresh usually loses when playing against Galio, with a 48.7% win rate. Thus, Thresh makes a poor counter for Galio.
While Thresh does have a lower winrate than Galio, when facing one another, Thresh also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Thresh into Galioas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Thresh also has a very large 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Galio matchups, Galio is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Thresh is a somewhat poor counter for Galio. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Thresh against Galio.
Other Champion Matchups Against Thresh
Additional Information for Thresh Players
How We Calculated Our Thresh vs Galio Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to counter Galio during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh often gets a lot less CS relative to Galio. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Thresh versus Galio build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Galio than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average win rate of 48.7% when playing against Galio with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Galio as Thresh, Thresh players should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Thresh vs Galio LoL games, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.7% win rate overall.
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