Illaoi vs Heimerdinger
How to Beat Heimerdinger as Illaoi
based on 1,155 Illaoi vs Heimerdinger matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Heimerdinger Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Heimerdinger as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Heimerdinger
Vessel
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.
Advice to Win Against Heimerdinger
Be wary of Heimerdinger's Upgrade!!!, as he can use it to find an answer to most trouble he gets into. Once his ultimate is down, go in for the kill!
It's better to destroy all of Heimerdinger's turrets at once with the help of creeps than to fight them one at a time.
Illaoi vs Heimerdinger Counter Stats
How to Counter Heimerdinger with Illaoi in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several valuable Illaoi versus Heimerdinger counter statistics that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Heimerdinger..
Illaoi normally has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. On average, she takes more damage than Heimerdinger. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Illaoi and Heimerdinger
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Heimerdinger?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Illaoi usually loses when facing off against Heimerdinger, with a 46.8% win rate. Thus, Illaoi makes a bad counter for Heimerdinger.
While Illaoi does have a lower winrate compared to Heimerdinger, when they face off with one another, Illaoi also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Illaoi into Heimerdinger.
Additionally, Illaoi has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Heimerdinger matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Illaoi is a trash counter to Heimerdinger. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Illaoi against Heimerdinger.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Illaoi to counter Heimerdinger during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi typically gets a similar amount of CS compared to Heimerdinger. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Illaoi versus Heimerdinger build include Spirit Visage, Black Cleaver, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better countering Heimerdinger than with many other typical builds. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average winrate of 46.8% battling Heimerdinger with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Heimerdinger 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 runes players used for Illaoi vs Heimerdinger face-offs, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.8% winrate overall.
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