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).
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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.
The Lissandra Illaoi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Illaoi, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Lissandra sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Illaoi. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Illaoi helps Lissandra perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lissandra plays on the same team as Illaoi, she gets a little drop in her total damage dealt. This change may signal that Illaoi does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Lissandra is played alongside Illaoi on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Illaoi. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Illaoi.
Moreover, when Lissandra plays with Illaoi on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Illaoi does a poor job of protecting Lissandra during teamfights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Lissandra that will always be her ideal ally. However, overall, Illaoi is a pretty good companion for Lissandra. By playing on the same team as Lissandra, she raises their win rate by 2.5% to 52.0%. This signals that there is a good strategic relationship between Lissandra and Illaoi that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Illaoi has a lower difficulty than Lissandra. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Illaoi teammates to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, Lissandra players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Lissandra and Illaoi together, you will not be providing your other allies much support. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Illaoi ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lissandra in order to work well with Illaoi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Lissandra and Illaoi synergy build include Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Lissandra used at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Illaoi than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Lissandra had an average winrate of 52.0% when playing alongside Illaoi with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.0% win rate overall.
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