Evelynn vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Evelynn
based on 1,752 Evelynn vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Evelynn vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Evelynn vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Evelynn
Tips for Playing as Evelynn against Illaoi
If at low health, you can take advantage of Demon Shade's healing and Camouflage to return to the fight and surprise opponents.
While stealthed, pay attention to when you are (near) being detected by enemy champions. This is identified by the glowing yellow and red eyes over nearby enemy champions.
Allure's arm time might seem long, but the Charm and magic resist shred put Evelynn at an exteme advantage so are worth the wait.
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.
Evelynn vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Evelynn in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some significant Evelynn against Illaoi matchup statistics that may help us figure out the differences between the pair. As an example, Evelynn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Illaoi’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Evelynn may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Illaoi. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Evelynn typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Illaoi. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Evelynn and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Evelynn or Illaoi?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Evelynn usually wins when taking on Illaoi, with a 53.3% win rate. As a result, Evelynn makes a great counter to Illaoi.
While Evelynn does have a higher winrate compared to Illaoi, when facing one another, Evelynn also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Evelynn into Illaoias her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Evelynn has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Illaoi. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Evelynn vs Illaoi matchups, Evelynn is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Evelynn is a great counter to Illaoi. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Evelynn against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Evelynn in order to counter Illaoi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Evelynn typically gets a lot less CS relative to Illaoi. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Evelynn versus Illaoi build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Evelynn included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Illaoi than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Evelynn boasted an average winrate of 53.3% when countering Illaoi with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Illaoi as Evelynn, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Evelynn vs Illaoi LoL games, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.3% win rate overall.
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