Zed counter - convince me against this

Alright, I am going to start this out with a bang... Galio. I consider him to be the greatest zed counter for many reasons. The general consensus is divided on Galio being trash or highly situational, however I think hes great as a first pick.

First off his passive, many people complain that if the enemy team is heavy ad, galio cannot do anything, however they forget that a heavy ad team makes it much easier for your team. On Galio, you will build Abyssal Scepter for the 60 mr, 90 ap (60 + 30 from passive), 10% cdr, and a 10% magic dmg bonus to all enemies within about the range of your ult, and spirit visage for 500 health, 55 mr (27.5 ap from passive), 10% cdr, 200% regen, and a 25% boost to all incoming heals (extremely good combo with his passive, ult, and w). This is extremely good use of your passive for items that you would build even if there was no ap on the enemy team. 117.5 ap, 115 mr, 500 hp, 20% cdr, 200% regen, and an extra 10% dmg enemies take from ap.

I am putting his e before his q because it is easier to explain this way. Most peoples issue with the e is that it is meant for increased speed, but cancels movement. This can be annoying when trying to escape, however this isnt how you should use it in the first place. Get Rylai's crystal scepter (400 hp, 100 ap, slow on spell hit) and e an enemy, the enemy is slowed and you use the speed boost to get a little closer to be able to q them. q is difficult to miss at close range, and your opponent will be slowed. then you q to slow them more, and easily escape because both your q and rylai's slows them. another reason for e first is that sometimes people will use a skill to evade, meaning you can punish them with q which does more damage. if you miss your e, don't worry, its a poke, not an all in, you most likely will not be punished, especially if you still have q up. This makes for a safe poke with a decent sum of damage, an easy way to set up a trade, or a way to ult without flashing, but your ult will probably will be saved for something else, I will get to that.

His q is annoying to land at long range, and doesn't have the cheapest mana cost. Most people look at the damage on this and assume you have to poke with this. That would be a mistake, as I mentioned before, it is better to poke with e unless you are confident with your aim and their inability to evade, and since your first item will usually be Tear of the goddess, mana will not be an issue. Q is best at close quarters because of its decent AoE, and better aim. This is your prime damage. when escaping, use q on your chaser, they will either have to sidestep to evade, thus making distance between you , or be hit by its massive slow coupled with rylai's, use e to either slow them further, or give yourself a speed boost, based on the situation. Most of q has already been discussed with e's section because Galio actually combos well.

Next is Galio's w, a buff to mr and Armour to whomever he wishes, while adding an effect that heals Galio each time damage is taken. This move is the bread and butter of his ult, building thornmail along with the boost to defenses makes hitting galio with an auto unfavourable enough without the fact it that it will probably heal him. Galio can pop this on whoever is being targeted to give them extra sustain, while healing galio. All in all, its a skill most supports or tanks would kill for (especially galio and rammus).

And finally for the ult. His r after a small amount of time will channel a nunu absolute zero that taunts all enemies and gains damage for damage taken. this is extremely useful for teamfights and 1v1ing. I usually use this to stop people from escaping to their tower when all-in-ing because it pulls them away from their turret towards you and your rylais will slow them afterwards. Popping w on you before hand with both thornmail and spirit visage, you will probably be healing profitably while your opponent is taking decent damage before they take massive damage from your ult's activation. your ult under a turret is devastating, the opponent will be dealing either little damage or healing you while a turret focuses them. Galio is best mid because you rarely see auto attack based champs there, thus it will hurt them when auto-attacks are all they can do. Galio's ult gives your opponents a small fraction of a second to apply cc to end it. Blitzcrank might charge e to end it with an auto, braum could begin his stacks, etc. this is one of the few counter plays, and even those have their own counter plays. if you force them to use cc early, wait for them to use cc, have a morgana spell shield you, do it before they react, (or if you are feeling a bit experimentive, try Edge of Night for the mr, move speed, and spell shield) you can get around this.

Summs: ALWAYS take flash. take either tp or ignite. tp will let you tp and ult another lane, help you get back to lane early, and other uses for tp. Ignite can be used while you ult, this hurts lifesteal based characters and allows for extra damage (if going against lifesteal based champs, sometimes its a good idea to have something with grievous wounds on you).

On to why Galio counters zed now that i have hopefully de-stigmatized you about galio's worth. Galio is able to hit zed pretty well, because of the e q poke combo mentioned earlier, galio will easily be able to burn zed's shadow and a decent amount of his energy. Galio's ult IS THE COUNTER to zed ult. the prime issue with galio is that the ult can be countered by any hard cc, however zed cant do that. Zed has no cc whatsoever, so his only hope of escaping a galio ult is to flash or shadow out. however, thats not as simple as you might think because flash has a much longer cd than galio ult, and shadows have to be set before hand, otherwise zed wont have enough time to escape. Not to mention, zed usually doesnt walk up to you to combo, he uses shadow or ult. with shadow, he has no choice but to flash (if he can in time) and with his ult... here comes the fun part. Zed's ult relies on damage dealt during the duration of his ult, so galio ulting makes it so that zed cannot do much other than autos. One might argue here that zed could attack with his e and q from the shadow, but that cant happen, zed ult has a period of time where he cannot attack, the lands directly on top of galio. Galio ult set right at zed ult means that zed will exit his ult to auto galio with no escape because the period of time before people can escape galio's ult will occur when zed cannot move. the moment zed exits, he will be taunted, his ult wasted, and he will be slowed afterwards with huge damage. Zed is not meant to auto, is not meant to build tanky enough to survive this, and galio with abyssal and spirit visage will take away from zed's only hope, his passive. All in all, zed cannot do anything to galio, there is plenty of items galio can build against him. Guardian angels provides armour, and mr which gives ap, and makes it so galio will just return; zhonyas, even more countering to the ult, and armour plus ap, etc. etc. The list goes on forever. The best part is, Galio doesn't even have to go out of his way to build against Zed.

This was my analysis, I would like to hear any flaws, counter logic, tips, or anything that goes against or with my idea. I really enjoy Galio's playstyle, and am surprised nobody on the web has presented this idea yet. Please nobody mention his mana pool, as discussed before, / counters this argument while providing extra ap, a shield, etc. Sorry for all the words, and thank you for any feedback.