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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.
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several important Illaoi against Taliyah counter statistics that may help you explain the differences between this set of champs. For instance, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taliyah’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Taliyah..
Illaoi typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Taliyah. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Illaoi usually loses when playing against Taliyah, with a 48.4% win rate. Therefore, Illaoi makes a bad counter for Taliyah.
While Illaoi does have a lower winrate than Taliyah, when facing one another, Illaoi also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Illaoi into Taliyah.
Additionally, Illaoi has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taliyah. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Taliyah matchups, Taliyah is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Illaoi is a somewhat poor counter to Taliyah. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Illaoi against Taliyah.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi to counter Taliyah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi usually gets more CS as Taliyah. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Illaoi versus Taliyah build include Sterak's Gage, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Illaoi incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better against Taliyah than with most other common item sets. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average win rate of 48.4% when countering Taliyah with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Taliyah 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. Of all the rune sets players used for Illaoi vs Taliyah face-offs, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.4% win rate overall.
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