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.
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
The Illaoi Zoe synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zoe, 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 Zoe. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zoe helps Illaoi perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Illaoi tries to synergize with Zoe, she sees a little decrease in her total damage output. This difference could signal that Zoe does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played with Zoe on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Zoe.
Additionally, when Illaoi plays with Zoe on the same team, she typically takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Zoe does a decent job of covering Illaoi in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Illaoi that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. Yet, Zoe is a terrible ally for Illaoi. By locking into the same side as Illaoi, she lowers their win rate by -4.2% to 45.4%. This proves that there is a very bad synergy between Illaoi and Zoe that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Zoe has a greater difficulty than Illaoi. That means Illaoi players must be cautious when arranging Zoe teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, Illaoi players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Although, by aligning Illaoi and Zoe together, you will not be providing your other allies much support. Plan to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Zoe ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Illaoi in order to work well with Zoe during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Illaoi and Zoe synergy build include Black Cleaver, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Illaoi combined at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Zoe than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average win rate of 45.4% helping carry Zoe with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Illaoi players 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 sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.4% win rate overall.
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