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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.
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
The Illaoi Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, 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 Lucian. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Lucian helps Illaoi perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Illaoi is paired with Lucian, she gets a small increase in her total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Lucian supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played with Lucian on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Lucian. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Lucian.
Additionally, when Illaoi plays with Lucian on the same team, she on average takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Lucian does a poor job of protecting Illaoi in team fights.
There is no ideal companion for Illaoi that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. Yet, overall, Lucian is a below average ally for Illaoi. By playing on the same team as Illaoi, he lowers their win rate by -2.0% to 47.6%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Illaoi and Lucian that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Lucian has a greater difficulty than Illaoi. That means you must be very careful when finding Lucian teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting together, Illaoi players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Illaoi and Lucian together, you probably will not be providing your team enough utility. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Lucian ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Illaoi to pair well with Lucian during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Illaoi and Lucian synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Hullbreaker, and Sundered Sky. When Illaoi incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Lucian than with many other typical builds. In fact, Illaoi had an average winrate of 47.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Lucian with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Illaoi and Lucian pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Lucian with Illaoi are shown for all skill levels combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu located above.