Irelia vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Irelia
based on 1,746 Irelia vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Illaoi
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Advice to Win Against Illaoi
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Irelia vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Irelia in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several valuable Irelia against Illaoi matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Illaoi’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Illaoi..
Irelia typically has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. On average, she takes less damage than Illaoi. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Irelia and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Irelia or Illaoi?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Irelia usually fairs equally well when playing against Illaoi, with a 50.3% win rate. Thus, Irelia makes an ok counter to Illaoi.
While Irelia does have a higher win rate than Illaoi, when facing one another, Irelia also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Irelia into Illaoi.
Additionally, Irelia has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Illaoi. 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Illaoi matchups, Irelia is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Irelia is a decent counter to Illaoi. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Irelia against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Irelia to counter Illaoi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Illaoi. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Irelia versus Illaoi build consist of Sterak's Gage, Experimental Hexplate, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Irelia included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Illaoi than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Irelia had an average win rate of 50.3% when playing against Illaoi with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Illaoi as Irelia, Irelia players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Irelia vs Illaoi battles, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.3% win rate overall.
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