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Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Aatrox's Infernal Chains are easier to exit when running towards the sides or at Aatrox.
Aatrox's attacks are very telegraphed, so use the time to dodge the hit zones.
Keep your distance when Aatrox uses his Ultimate to prevent him from reviving.
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some strategic Illaoi versus Aatrox counter stats that can help us realize the distinctions between the two. Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Aatrox’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Aatrox..
Illaoi often has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Aatrox. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Illaoi usually fairs equally well when playing against Aatrox, with a 50.7% win rate. Therefore, Illaoi makes an ok counter for Aatrox.
While Illaoi does have a higher win rate than Aatrox, when facing one another, Illaoi also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Illaoi into Aatrox.
Furthermore, Illaoi also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Aatrox. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Aatrox matchups, Illaoi is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Illaoi is a decent counter for Aatrox. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Illaoi against Aatrox.
To truly master Illaoi in order to counter Aatrox during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Aatrox. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Illaoi versus Aatrox build include Sterak's Gage, Spirit Visage, and Sundered Sky. When Illaoi used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better against Aatrox than with many other typical builds. In fact, Illaoi had an average win rate of 50.7% when playing against Aatrox with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Aatrox as Illaoi, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Illaoi vs Aatrox LoL games, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.7% winrate overall.
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