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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.
Kayle starts the game as a weaker melee champion. Try to put her behind before she ascends to her ranged form.
Kayle is usually a fragile target. If you see her ultimate cast on an ally, switch to attacking her.
Divine Judgment only grants Kayle or her allies immunity to damage. Slows and stuns can still be applied, so trap them if they're being overzealous.
The stats shown here feature some significant Illaoi against Kayle matchup statistics that may help us interpret the distinctions between the pair. Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kayle’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Kayle..
Illaoi usually has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Kayle. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Illaoi usually loses when taking on Kayle, with a 44.3% win rate. As a result, Illaoi makes a poor counter for Kayle.
While Illaoi does have a much lower win rate than Kayle, when they face off with one another, Illaoi also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Illaoi into Kayle.
Additionally, Illaoi also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kayle. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Kayle matchups, Kayle is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Illaoi is a garbage counter to Kayle. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Illaoi against Kayle.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi to counter Kayle during both the early game 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 mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi usually accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Kayle. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Illaoi versus Kayle build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when facing Kayle than with many other common builds. In fact, Illaoi had an average win rate of 44.3% battling Kayle with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Kayle as Illaoi, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Illaoi vs Kayle counterpicks, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 44.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Kayle as Illaoi are given for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the stats and builds to a specific rank, you should use the selection menu above.