Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
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 shown here highlight several vital Vayne against Illaoi counter stats that may help you grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Vayne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Illaoi’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Vayne may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Illaoi..
Vayne normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she takes less damage than Illaoi. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vayne usually fairs equally well when facing off against Illaoi, with a 50.2% win rate. As a result, Vayne makes an ok counter to Illaoi.
While Vayne does have a higher win rate compared to Illaoi, when they face off with one another, Vayne also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more complex character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Vayne into Illaoias her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vayne also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Illaoi. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Vayne vs Illaoi matchups, Vayne is the better champion 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.
Vayne is a decent counter for Illaoi. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vayne against Illaoi.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vayne to counter Illaoi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vayne on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Illaoi. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly 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 exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Vayne versus Illaoi build include Guardian Angel, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Vayne used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better versus Illaoi than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Vayne boasted an average win rate of 50.2% battling Illaoi with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Illaoi as Vayne, Vayne players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Vayne vs Illaoi matchups, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.2% win rate overall.
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