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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.
Warwick's attacks heal him at low health. Save your disables to finish him off.
Warwick's ultimate cast range scales with his Move Speed.
Warwick is empowered versus low health enemies. Manage your health to keep him at bay.
The stats provided here clarify some strategic Illaoi against Warwick matchup stats that can help you figure out the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Warwick’s ratio of NaN, showing that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Warwick..
Illaoi usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Warwick. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Illaoi usually wins when playing against Warwick, with a 51.2% win rate. Thus, Illaoi makes a good counter for Warwick.
While Illaoi does have a higher winrate compared to Warwick, when they face off with one another, Illaoi also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Illaoi into Warwick.
Moreover, Illaoi also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Warwick. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Warwick matchups, Illaoi is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Illaoi is a decent counter for Warwick. Focus your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Illaoi against Warwick.
If you would like to truly master Illaoi in order to counter Warwick during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi most often accumulates much more CS as Warwick. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Illaoi versus Warwick build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Illaoi included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Warwick than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average win rate of 51.2% battling Warwick with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Warwick as Illaoi, Illaoi players 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. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Illaoi vs Warwick matchups, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.2% winrate overall.
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