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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.
Watch out for Corki's Missile Barrage. They deal splash damage, so you can get hit even when hiding behind minions.
Corki is vulnerable after he uses his Valkyrie or Special Delivery, so try switching focus to him if he uses them to enter a fight.
The stats shown here clarify several valuable Illaoi versus Corki matchup stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Corki’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Corki..
Illaoi normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives more damage than Corki. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Illaoi usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Corki, with a 50.3% win rate. Thus, Illaoi makes an ok counter to Corki.
While Illaoi does have a higher win rate compared to Corki, when on opposite teams, Illaoi also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Illaoi into Corki.
Additionally, Illaoi also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Corki. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Corki matchups, Illaoi is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Illaoi is a decent counter for Corki. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Illaoi against Corki.
If you would like to truly master Illaoi to counter Corki 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 listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Corki. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Illaoi versus Corki build consist of Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Corki than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Illaoi had an average win rate of 50.3% battling Corki with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Corki 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 we have analyed for Illaoi vs Corki battles, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.3% winrate overall.
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