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 Samira 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, Samira sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Galio. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Galio helps Samira perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Samira plays on the same team as Galio, she sees a little increase in her full damage dealt. This may indicate that Galio helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Samira is played with Galio on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Galio. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Galio.
Moreover, when Samira plays with Galio on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Galio does a decent job of covering Samira during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Samira that will always be her ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Galio is a decent companion for Samira. By locking into the same team as Samira, he increases their win rate by 1.7% to 50.4%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Samira and Galio that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Galio has a lower difficulty than Samira. That means Samira players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Galio comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Samira players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by bringing Samira and Galio together, you will not be providing your team very much support. Plan to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Galio teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Samira to work well with Galio during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to build first in your Samira and Galio synergy build include Guardian Angel, Infinity Edge, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Samira incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Galio than with most other typical builds. In fact, Samira had an average winrate of 50.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Galio with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Galio with Samira are displayed for every ranked division. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.