Hwei vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Hwei
based on 3,231 Hwei vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Hwei vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Hwei vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Hwei
Tips for Playing as Hwei against Illaoi
Calm down, breathe, and focus.
Each stroke requires precision and intention.
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.
Hwei vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Hwei in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several important Hwei vs. Illaoi counter stats that can help us appreciate the distinctions between the two. For instance, Hwei’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Illaoi’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Hwei may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Illaoi. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Hwei often has a similar longest kill spree as their foe does. On average, they takes less damage than Illaoi. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Hwei and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Hwei or Illaoi?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Hwei usually loses when playing against Illaoi, with a 46.5% win rate. Therefore, Hwei makes a poor counter to Illaoi.
While Hwei does have a lower win rate than Illaoi, when facing one another, Hwei also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes them a more difficult character to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Hwei into Illaoias their relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Hwei also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Illaoi. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Hwei vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Hwei is a garbage counter for Illaoi. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Hwei against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Hwei in order to counter Illaoi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hwei on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as Illaoi. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Hwei versus Illaoi build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Hwei incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better when facing Illaoi than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Hwei boasted an average winrate of 46.5% when playing against Illaoi with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Illaoi as Hwei, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Hwei vs Illaoi counter picks, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.5% win rate overall.
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