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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.
Trundle is very powerful at location-based combat. Try to draw him off of his Frozen Domain.
Make sure to get out of his Pillar of Ice as quickly as possible, as it significantly slows you down.
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some valuable Illaoi versus Trundle counter stats that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Trundle’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Trundle..
Illaoi usually has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Trundle. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Illaoi usually loses when taking on Trundle, with a 45.8% win rate. Therefore, Illaoi makes a poor counter for Trundle.
While Illaoi does have a much lower winrate than Trundle, when facing one another, Illaoi also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Illaoi into Trundle.
Additionally, Illaoi has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Trundle. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Trundle matchups, Trundle is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Illaoi is a trash counter to Trundle. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Illaoi against Trundle.
To truly master Illaoi to counter Trundle during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Trundle. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Illaoi versus Trundle build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Illaoi included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better countering Trundle than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average winrate of 45.8% battling Trundle with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Trundle as Illaoi, you should equip 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 we have analyed for Illaoi vs Trundle fights, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.8% win rate overall.
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