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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.
Items that counter Health stacking, such as Liandry's Torment and Blade of the Ruined King, are very effective against Vladimir.
Making Vladimir use Sanguine Pool at the start of a fight will maximize the Health cost of the ability to him.
Try to take Vladimir down before Hemoplague detonates, as it will heal him for each afflicted enemy Champion.
The stat comparisons shown here feature several valuable Illaoi vs. Vladimir matchup statistics that may help you figure out the differences between the two. Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vladimir’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Vladimir..
Illaoi typically has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Vladimir. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Illaoi usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Vladimir, with a 49.7% win rate. Therefore, Illaoi makes an ok counter to Vladimir.
While Illaoi does have a lower win rate than Vladimir, when on opposite teams, Illaoi also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Illaoi into Vladimir.
Furthermore, Illaoi has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vladimir. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Vladimir matchups, Vladimir is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Illaoi is a somewhat poor counter for Vladimir. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Illaoi against Vladimir.
To truly master Illaoi to counter Vladimir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi often picks up a similar amount of CS as Vladimir. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Illaoi versus Vladimir build include Sterak's Gage, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Illaoi combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better vs Vladimir than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average win rate of 49.7% when playing against Vladimir with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Vladimir as Illaoi, Illaoi players should use 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 runes we have analyed for Illaoi vs Vladimir face-offs, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Vladimir as Illaoi are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier on the page.