Naafiri vs Galio Counter Pick

Galio’s health growth is the headline: 600 at level one, 2,742 by level 18, a curve that makes the math of a physical-damage assassin stop working. Naafiri deals physical damage exclusively, so all of that health sits behind 103.9 armor she has no way to split. Across 551 games on patch 16.13.1 she wins 45.2%.

The kit interactions run in the same direction. Shield of Durand taunts nearby enemies when the charge is released, and a taunt catches not only Naafiri but the packmates that We Are More sends at whatever she attacks. Winds of War covers ground with damage over time, which is awkward for a champion who wants to walk daggers into a target, and Justice Punch knocks up the first champion it meets — usually the one who has just used Eviscerate to close the distance.

Her advantages are narrow. The Call of the Pack makes her briefly untargetable while it spawns extra packmates and adds move speed and attack damage, which is the cleanest answer to a knock-up, and Hounds’ Pursuit can be recast after a takedown. Everything else favors Galio: 150 attack range against 125, identical 340 move speed so there is no disengaging on foot, and Hero’s Entrance arriving from anywhere on the map to finish a fight she started.