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 underscore several significant Senna vs. Illaoi matchup statistics that may help us understand the differences between the pair. As an example, Senna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Illaoi’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Senna may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Illaoi. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Senna typically has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Illaoi. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Senna usually wins when taking on Illaoi, with a 51.3% win rate. Thus, Senna makes a good counter to Illaoi.
While Senna does have a higher win rate compared to Illaoi, when on opposite teams, Senna also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Senna into Illaoias her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Senna also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Illaoi. 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 Senna vs Illaoi matchups, Senna is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Senna is a decent counter for Illaoi. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Senna against Illaoi.
To truly master Senna to counter Illaoi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Senna usually picks up less CS as Illaoi. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Senna versus Illaoi build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Bloodsong. When Senna incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs. Illaoi than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Senna boasted an average win rate of 51.3% when countering Illaoi with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Illaoi as Senna, Senna players should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Cut Down, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Senna vs Illaoi face-offs, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.3% winrate overall.
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