Milio's dash speeds increase with his movement speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Milio requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
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 stat comparisons provided here emphasize several important Milio vs. Illaoi matchup statistics that may help you explain the differences between the pair. For instance, Milio’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Illaoi’s ratio of NaN, showing that Milio may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Illaoi. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Milio typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than their counter does. Commonly, they receives less damage than Illaoi. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Milio usually loses when facing off against Illaoi, with a 48.0% win rate. Thus, Milio makes a poor counter for Illaoi.
While Milio does have a lower win rate than Illaoi, when on opposite teams, Milio also has a greater learning curve that makes them a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Milio into Illaoi.
Furthermore, Milio has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Illaoi. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Milio vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Milio is a terribly counter for Illaoi. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Milio against Illaoi.
To truly master Milio in order to counter Illaoi 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 stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Milio most often picks up a lot less CS as Illaoi. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They 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, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Milio versus Illaoi build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Milio combined at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better when fighting Illaoi than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Milio boasted an average win rate of 48.0% when countering Illaoi with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Illaoi as Milio, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Milio vs Illaoi clashes, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.0% winrate overall.
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