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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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some important Illaoi vs. Yuumi counter stats that may help us explain the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Yuumi’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Yuumi. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in killsdeaths.
Illaoi often has a much larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Yuumi. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Illaoi usually wins when facing off against Yuumi, with a 53.6% win rate. Therefore, Illaoi makes a great counter for Yuumi.
While Illaoi does have a higher win rate than Yuumi, when facing one another, Illaoi also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Illaoi into Yuumi.
Moreover, Illaoi has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yuumi. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Yuumi matchups, Illaoi is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Illaoi is a great counter for Yuumi. Focus your play on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Illaoi against Yuumi.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi in order to counter Yuumi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi usually picks up much more CS relative to Yuumi. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Illaoi versus Yuumi build include Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi bought at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when facing Yuumi than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Illaoi had an average winrate of 53.6% battling Yuumi with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Yuumi as Illaoi, Illaoi players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Illaoi vs Yuumi counters, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.6% win rate overall.
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