If Draven doesn't move, Spinning Axe will fall near his present location. It will fall directly on him, or just to the right or left.
If Draven does move after attacking, Spinning Axe will lead him in the direction of his movement. Use this to control where the Spinning Axe will go.
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.
The stats shown here clarify several important Draven against Illaoi counter statistics that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. Draven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Illaoi’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Draven may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Illaoi. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Draven typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes less damage than Illaoi. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Draven usually fairs equally well when taking on Illaoi, with a 49.5% win rate. Therefore, Draven makes an ok counter for Illaoi.
While Draven does have a lower winrate compared to Illaoi, when on opposite teams, Draven also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Draven into Illaoias his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Draven 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Draven vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Draven is a somewhat poor counter for Illaoi. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Draven against Illaoi.
To learn all of the intricacies of Draven to counter Illaoi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Draven on average racks up a similar amount of CS as Illaoi. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Draven versus Illaoi build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Hubris. When Draven included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better countering Illaoi than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Draven had an average winrate of 49.5% when countering Illaoi with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Illaoi as Draven, Draven players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Draven vs Illaoi matchups, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.5% win rate overall.
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