Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
The Caitlyn Illaoi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Illaoi, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Caitlyn sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Illaoi. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Illaoi helps Caitlyn perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Caitlyn is an ally to Illaoi, she gets a barely noticable drop in her total damage output. This change may indicate that Illaoi does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played with Illaoi on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Illaoi.
Moreover, when Caitlyn plays with Illaoi on the same side, she often takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Illaoi does a poor job of protecting Caitlyn during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Caitlyn that will no matter what be her #1 synergy. Yet, Illaoi is a very typical companion for Caitlyn. By locking into the same team as Caitlyn, she drops their win rate by -0.3% to 49.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Caitlyn and Illaoi that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Illaoi has a lower difficulty than Caitlyn. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Illaoi comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, Caitlyn players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Caitlyn and Illaoi together, you probably will not be giving your other allies very much AP. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Illaoi ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Caitlyn in order to work well with Illaoi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Caitlyn and Illaoi synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, The Collector, and Axiom Arc. When Caitlyn combined at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Illaoi than with many other typical builds. In fact, Caitlyn had an average win rate of 49.0% helping carry Illaoi with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Caitlyn and Illaoi pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.0% winrate overall.
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