Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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 Illaoi Galio synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Galio, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Illaoi sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Galio. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Galio helps Illaoi perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Illaoi plays on the same team as Galio, she gets a little decrease in her total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Galio doesn't help cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played together with Galio on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Galio.
Moreover, when Illaoi plays with Galio on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Galio does a decent job of protecting Illaoi during team fights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Illaoi that will no matter what be her best teammate. However, overall, Galio is a below average teammate for Illaoi. By playing on the same side as Illaoi, he drops their win rate by -1.1% to 48.5%. This shows that there is a negative synergy between Illaoi and Galio that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Galio has a greater difficulty than Illaoi. That means Illaoi players need to be cautious when arranging Galio comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, Illaoi players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by pairing Illaoi and Galio together, you may not be providing your team enough crowd control. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Galio ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi in order to pair well with Galio during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Illaoi and Galio synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Spirit Visage, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Galio than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average winrate of 48.5% helping carry Galio with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Galio with Illaoi are shown for every ranked division. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a particular division, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.