Illaoi with Gwen
How to Synergize Illaoi and Gwen
based on 353 Illaoi with Gwen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Illaoi Gwen Synergy Summary
Best Illaoi vs Gwen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Gwen
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Gwen
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.
Advice to Understand How Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Illaoi Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Illaoi sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gwen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gwen helps Illaoi perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Illaoi tries to synergize with Gwen, she observes a little decrease in her total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Gwen does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played together with Gwen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Gwen.
Moreover, when Illaoi plays with Gwen on the same team, she often takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Gwen does a poor job of protecting Illaoi during team fights.
Synergies between Illaoi and Gwen
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no perfect ally for Illaoi that will 100% of the time be her top synergy. However, overall, Gwen is a not very good ally for Illaoi. By being on the same team as Illaoi, she decreases their win rate by -1.7% to 47.9%. This demonstrates that there is a bad strategic relationship between Illaoi and Gwen that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Gwen has a greater difficulty than Illaoi. That means you should be very careful when arranging Gwen comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Illaoi and Gwen together, you probably will not be giving your side a lot of utility. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Gwen ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi to pair well with Gwen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Illaoi and Gwen synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi combined at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Gwen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average winrate of 47.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Gwen with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.9% win rate overall.
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