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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.
Rengar's passive enables him to leap out of brush, so avoid fighting him when near bushes.
Rengar puts an indicator over the nearest enemy champion when he is camouflaged during his ultimate.
Rengar gains an empowered ability when his resource bar is full. Try to confront him when it's low.
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some vital Illaoi versus Rengar matchup statistics that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rengar’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Rengar..
Illaoi typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Rengar. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Illaoi usually fairs equally well when playing against Rengar, with a 50.8% win rate. Thus, Illaoi makes an ok counter for Rengar.
While Illaoi does have a higher win rate compared to Rengar, when facing one another, Illaoi also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Illaoi into Rengar.
Additionally, Illaoi also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rengar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Rengar 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 teamfights.
Illaoi is a decent counter for Rengar. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Illaoi against Rengar.
If you would like to truly master Illaoi to counter Rengar 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 mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi typically racks up much more CS as Rengar. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Illaoi versus Rengar build include Sterak's Gage, Hullbreaker, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Rengar than with most other common builds. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average winrate of 50.8% when playing against Rengar with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Rengar 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 runes that we analyzed for Illaoi vs Rengar battles, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Rengar as Illaoi are shown for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu above.