Tristana vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Tristana
based on 2,583 Tristana vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tristana vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Tristana vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Tristana
Tips for Playing as Tristana against Illaoi
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Tristana in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several significant Tristana vs. Illaoi counter statistics that can help us figure out the differences between these two champs. As an example, Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Illaoi’s ratio of NaN, showing that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Illaoi..
Tristana typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Illaoi. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Tristana and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Tristana or Illaoi?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Tristana usually loses when facing off against Illaoi, with a 48.5% win rate. Thus, Tristana makes a poor counter to Illaoi.
While Tristana does have a lower winrate than Illaoi, when on opposite teams, Tristana also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Tristana into Illaoi.
Additionally, Tristana also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Illaoi. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Tristana is a somewhat poor counter for Illaoi. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Tristana against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Tristana 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 mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana on average gets a similar amount of CS relative to Illaoi. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Tristana versus Illaoi build include Phantom Dancer, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when facing Illaoi than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Tristana boasted an average winrate of 48.5% when countering Illaoi with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of defeating Illaoi as Tristana, you should take the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Tristana vs Illaoi counter picks, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Illaoi as Tristana are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.