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.
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
The Illaoi Poppy synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Poppy, 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 large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Poppy. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Poppy helps Illaoi perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Illaoi is an ally to Poppy, she sees a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Poppy supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played together with Poppy on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Poppy. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Poppy.
Moreover, when Illaoi plays with Poppy on the same team, she on average takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Poppy does a poor job of protecting Illaoi in teamfights.
There is no ideal ally for Illaoi that will 100% of the time be her #1 synergy. However, Poppy is a relatively poor companion for Illaoi. By locking into the same team as Illaoi, she decreases their win rate by -1.8% to 47.8%. This shows that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Illaoi and Poppy that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Poppy has a greater difficulty than Illaoi. That means Illaoi players must be very careful when lining up Poppy teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Illaoi and Poppy together, you may not be giving your other teammates enough AP. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Poppy teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi in order to work well with Poppy during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Illaoi and Poppy synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Poppy than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average winrate of 47.8% helping carry Poppy with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip 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 combinations players chose for Illaoi and Poppy pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.8% win rate overall.
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