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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.
Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
The Illaoi Lissandra synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lissandra, 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 Lissandra. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Lissandra helps Illaoi perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Illaoi is an ally to Lissandra, she sees a little increase in her full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Lissandra provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played alongside Lissandra on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Lissandra.
Moreover, when Illaoi plays with Lissandra on the same team, she usually receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Lissandra does a decent job of protecting Illaoi in teamfights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Illaoi that will no matter what be her ideal synergy. However, overall, Lissandra is a decent teammate for Illaoi. By locking into the same team as Illaoi, she raises their win rate by 2.4% to 52.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a good synergy between Illaoi and Lissandra that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Lissandra has a greater difficulty than Illaoi. That means Illaoi players need to be cautious when arranging Lissandra allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, Illaoi players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Illaoi and Lissandra together, you may not be giving your side very much utility. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Lissandra teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi to synergize with Lissandra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to prioritize in your Illaoi and Lissandra synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Sundered Sky. When Illaoi bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Lissandra than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average win rate of 52.0% helping carry Lissandra with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Lissandra with Illaoi are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.