Chaaaaaaaarge!!! can be cast at a great range. Try and predict where the enemy team will be by the time you reach them.
The last hit of Violent Tendencies deals more damage than the first three - make sure you hit it!
Kled generates some courage by killing minions, but gets much more from fighting Champions.
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.
The stats provided here highlight several strategic Kled versus Illaoi counter statistics that may help us distinguish the differences between the two. As an example, Kled’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Illaoi’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Kled may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Illaoi..
Kled typically has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Illaoi. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kled usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Illaoi, with a 49.5% win rate. Thus, Kled makes an ok counter for Illaoi.
While Kled does have a lower win rate compared to Illaoi, when they face off with one another, Kled also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Kled into Illaoias his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kled also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Illaoi. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kled vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Kled is a somewhat poor counter to Illaoi. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Kled against Illaoi.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kled to counter Illaoi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kled on average gets a similar amount of CS relative to Illaoi. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Kled versus Illaoi build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Kled combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better countering Illaoi than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Kled boasted an average win rate of 49.5% when playing against Illaoi with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Illaoi as Kled, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Kled vs Illaoi counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Illaoi as Kled are given for every ranked division. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.