Cleavers are a powerful tool for killing neutral monsters. Instead of returning to base, farm neutral monsters until your ultimate can heal you.
A well-timed Sadism can bait enemy champions into attacking you even when they lack the damage to finish you.
Spirit Visage will increase the healing done by your ultimate and lower cooldowns on all of your abilities.
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 stat comparisons provided here clarify some critical Dr. Mundo vs. Illaoi counter statistics that can help you understand the distinctions between the two. Dr. Mundo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Illaoi’s ratio of NaN, showing that Dr. Mundo may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Illaoi..
Dr. Mundo normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Illaoi. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Dr. Mundo usually loses when taking on Illaoi, with a 46.5% win rate. As a result, Dr. Mundo makes a poor counter to Illaoi.
While Dr. Mundo does have a lower winrate compared to Illaoi, when on opposite teams, Dr. Mundo also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Dr. Mundo into Illaoi.
Furthermore, Dr. Mundo has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Illaoi. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Dr. Mundo vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Dr. Mundo is a trash counter for Illaoi. Focus your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Dr. Mundo against Illaoi.
To truly master Dr. Mundo to counter Illaoi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Dr. Mundo most often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Illaoi. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Dr. Mundo versus Illaoi build consist of Unending Despair, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Dr. Mundo incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Illaoi than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Dr. Mundo boasted an average win rate of 46.5% when countering Illaoi with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating Illaoi as Dr. Mundo, Dr. Mundo players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Magical Footwear runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Dr. Mundo vs Illaoi LoL games, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Illaoi as Dr. Mundo are shown for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.