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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.
Stay behind minions to make Charm difficult to land, this will reduce Ahri's damage potential significantly.
Ahri's survivability is dramatically reduced when her Ultimate, Spirit Rush, is down.
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some vital Illaoi versus Ahri matchup statistics that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ahri’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Ahri..
Illaoi usually has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. On average, she receives more damage than Ahri. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Illaoi usually wins when playing against Ahri, with a 51.9% win rate. Therefore, Illaoi makes a good counter for Ahri.
While Illaoi does have a higher win rate compared to Ahri, when facing one another, Illaoi also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Illaoi into Ahri.
Moreover, Illaoi has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ahri. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Ahri matchups, Illaoi is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Illaoi is a decent counter to Ahri. Focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Illaoi against Ahri.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi to counter Ahri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi often racks up a similar amount of CS as Ahri. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Illaoi versus Ahri build include Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better versus Ahri than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average winrate of 51.9% when playing against Ahri with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Ahri as Illaoi, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Illaoi vs Ahri clashes, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.9% win rate overall.
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