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Galio Build

Mid Tier 3

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 44,801 gamesUpdated

49.3%win rate2.0%pick1.8%ban

Who counters Galio

Every Mid matchup for Galio, ranked →

How to build Galio

Chainlaced Crushers→Hextech Rocketbelt→Imperial Mandate→Zhonya's Hourglass

Chainlaced Crushers → Hextech Rocketbelt → Imperial Mandate → Zhonya's Hourglass

57.1% win rate 13% of games 3,023 games
RunesSorceryStormraider's SurgeManaflow BandTranscendenceScorchResolveSecond WindUnflinching36% of games
SpellsFlashTeleportFlash + Teleport74%
Skills
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Winds of War
14578
Shield of Durand
29101213
Justice Punch
314151718
Hero's Entrance
61116
StartDoran's RingHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Galio build →
49.3%win rate
Patch 26.20: 48.6% over 102,310 gamesPatch 26.21: 49.3% over 44,801 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
49.1%at Emerald+
2.0%pick rate
1.8%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
45.6%under 22 min
51.4%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 15–20m
MASTER+
Galio champion portraitM GaliovsKled champion portraitM Kled
7 / 2 / 5

Build

Armored Advance|Hextech Rocketbelt

Spells & runes

FlashGhost|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQWR
Loss 35–40m
MASTER+
Galio champion portraitM GaliovsYasuo champion portraitM Yasuo
7 / 6 / 16

Build

Armored Advance|Imperial Mandate→Hextech Rocketbelt→Zhonya's Hourglass

Spells & runes

TeleportFlash|

Skills

WEQQQRQWQWRWWEE
Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Galio champion portraitM GaliovsViktor champion portraitM Viktor
9 / 6 / 12

Build

Chainlaced Crushers|Hextech Rocketbelt→Imperial Mandate→Cryptbloom

Spells & runes

FlashGhost|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQWRWWEER

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 47.9% win rate · 36% of games · 15,295 games
SorceryStormraider's SurgeManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
ResolveSecond WindUnflinching
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health
Runner up 50.4% win rate · 21% of games · 8,801 games
ResolveAftershockShield BashBone PlatingOvergrowth
SorceryNimbus CloakTranscendence
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport74%48.4%34,024 games
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite22%51.7%10,270 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Chainlaced Crushers51%Armored Advance27%Spellslinger's Shoes19%
Chainlaced Crushers most often · 49.3% win rate

Galio build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Hextech Rocketbelt1st
  2. Zhonya's Hourglass2nd
  3. Imperial Mandate3rd
7% of games that reach a third item take this path57.1% win rate1,491 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Galio →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 45,429 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Chainlaced CrushersChainlaced Crushers
50% · 49.5% win rate
Armored AdvanceArmored Advance
27% · 48.7% win rate
Spellslinger's ShoesSpellslinger's Shoes
18% · 53.1% win rate
BootsBoots
2% · 27.1% win rate
Crimson LucidityCrimson Lucidity
1% · 49.6% win rate
SwiftmarchSwiftmarch
1% · 56.8% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Hollow Radiance›Imperial Mandate+Chainlaced Crushers4% of games · 48.7% win rate · 1,695 games
  2. Hollow Radiance+Chainlaced Crushers3% of games · 36.2% win rate · 1,419 games
  3. Hextech Rocketbelt›Imperial Mandate+Chainlaced Crushers3% of games · 45.9% win rate · 1,397 games
  4. Hextech Rocketbelt›Imperial Mandate+Armored Advance2% of games · 46.3% win rate · 1,009 games
  5. Imperial Mandate›Hollow Radiance+Chainlaced Crushers2% of games · 44.3% win rate · 988 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Galio against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Galio's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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