Heimerdinger vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Heimerdinger
based on 1,155 Heimerdinger vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Heimerdinger vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger against Illaoi
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Heimerdinger in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some valuable Heimerdinger against Illaoi matchup statistics that may help you realize the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Illaoi’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Heimerdinger may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Illaoi..
Heimerdinger often has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Illaoi. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Heimerdinger and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Heimerdinger or Illaoi?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Heimerdinger usually wins when facing off against Illaoi, with a 53.2% win rate. Thus, Heimerdinger makes a great counter for Illaoi.
While Heimerdinger does have a higher win rate than Illaoi, when they face off with one another, Heimerdinger also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Heimerdinger into Illaoias his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Heimerdinger also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Illaoi. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Heimerdinger vs Illaoi matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Heimerdinger is a great counter for Illaoi. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Heimerdinger against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Heimerdinger in order to counter Illaoi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Heimerdinger often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Illaoi. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Heimerdinger versus Illaoi build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Illaoi than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Heimerdinger boasted an average winrate of 53.2% when playing against Illaoi with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of beating Illaoi as Heimerdinger, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Heimerdinger vs Illaoi face-offs, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.2% win rate overall.
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