Ahri vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Ahri
based on 2,120 Ahri vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ahri vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Ahri vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Ahri
Tips for Playing as Ahri against Illaoi
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Advice to Win Against Illaoi
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Ahri vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Ahri in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some significant Ahri versus Illaoi matchup stats that may help you appreciate the differences between these two champs. As an example, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Illaoi’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Illaoi..
Ahri typically has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Illaoi. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ahri and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Ahri or Illaoi?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ahri usually loses when playing against Illaoi, with a 48.1% win rate. Therefore, Ahri makes a poor counter to Illaoi.
While Ahri does have a lower winrate than Illaoi, when on opposite teams, Ahri also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Ahri into Illaoi.
Furthermore, Ahri also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Illaoi. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Ahri is a somewhat poor counter for Illaoi. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ahri against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Ahri in order to counter Illaoi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Illaoi. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Ahri versus Illaoi build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Illaoi than with most other common builds. In fact, Ahri boasted an average win rate of 48.1% when countering Illaoi with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Illaoi as Ahri, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Ahri vs Illaoi counters, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.1% winrate overall.
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