Leona with Galio
How to Synergize Leona and Galio
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Leona Galio Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Galio
Tips for Playing as Leona with Galio
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Advice to Understand How Galio Will Play
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.
Leona Galio Synergy Stats
How to Play with Galio as Leona in LoL
The Leona 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, Leona sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Galio. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Galio helps Leona perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona plays on the same team as Galio, she gets a small increase in her total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Galio supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played with Galio on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Galio. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Galio.
Moreover, when Leona plays with Galio on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Galio does a decent job of protecting Leona during teamfights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Galio?
There is no ideal companion for Leona that will always be her top synergy. Yet, overall, Galio is a very typical teammate for Leona. By locking into the same team as Leona, he increases their win rate by 0.4% to 52.6%. This proves that there is not really a strong synergy between Leona and Galio that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Galio has a greater difficulty than Leona. That means you need to be careful when enlisting Galio allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Combined, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by pairing Leona and Galio together, you may not be giving your side enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Galio ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Leona to synergize with Galio during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to get in your Leona and Galio synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Galio than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Leona had an average win rate of 52.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Galio with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.6% winrate overall.
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