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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.
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several strategic Illaoi against Fiddlesticks matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the distinctions between the two. For instance, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Fiddlesticks’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Fiddlesticks..
Illaoi often has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Fiddlesticks. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Illaoi usually fairs equally well when taking on Fiddlesticks, with a 50.7% win rate. As a result, Illaoi makes an ok counter for Fiddlesticks.
While Illaoi does have a higher winrate compared to Fiddlesticks, when facing one another, Illaoi also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Illaoi into Fiddlesticks.
Furthermore, Illaoi also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Fiddlesticks. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Fiddlesticks matchups, Illaoi is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Illaoi is a decent counter to Fiddlesticks. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Illaoi against Fiddlesticks.
To learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi to counter Fiddlesticks during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi usually accumulates much more CS as Fiddlesticks. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly 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 situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Illaoi versus Fiddlesticks build include Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs Fiddlesticks than with many other common item sets. In fact, Illaoi had an average winrate of 50.7% when playing against Fiddlesticks with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Fiddlesticks as Illaoi, Illaoi players 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. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Illaoi vs Fiddlesticks face-offs, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.7% winrate overall.
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