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 on this page underscore several critical Yone vs. Illaoi matchup stats that can help you interpret the distinctions between the two. Yone’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Illaoi’s ratio of NaN, showing that Yone may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Illaoi..
Yone usually has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. On average, he takes less damage than Illaoi. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Yone usually loses when playing against Illaoi, with a 48.9% win rate. Thus, Yone makes a bad counter to Illaoi.
While Yone does have a lower win rate than Illaoi, when facing one another, Yone also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Yone into Illaoias his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Yone has almost no 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 is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Yone vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Yone is a somewhat poor counter to Illaoi. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Yone against Illaoi.
To learn all of the intricacies of Yone to counter Illaoi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yone often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Illaoi. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. 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, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Yone versus Illaoi build consist of Blade of The Ruined King, Death's Dance, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Yone incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs Illaoi than with most other common item sets. In fact, Yone had an average win rate of 48.9% when playing against Illaoi with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Illaoi as Yone, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Yone vs Illaoi matchups, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.9% win rate overall.
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