Darius vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Darius
based on 2,854 Darius vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Darius vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Darius vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Darius
Tips for Playing as Darius against Illaoi
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
Advice to Win Against Illaoi
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Darius vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Darius in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some vital Darius versus Illaoi counter stats that can help you interpret the differences between the pair. As an example, Darius’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Illaoi’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Darius may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Illaoi..
Darius usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Illaoi. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Darius and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Darius or Illaoi?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Darius usually loses when playing against Illaoi, with a 46.7% win rate. Thus, Darius makes a poor counter to Illaoi.
While Darius does have a lower winrate than Illaoi, when they face off with one another, Darius also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Darius into Illaoi.
Additionally, Darius also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Illaoi. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Darius vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Darius is a garbage counter for Illaoi. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Darius against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Darius to counter Illaoi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Darius typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Illaoi. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Darius versus Illaoi build include Sterak's Gage, Dead Man's Plate, and Force of Nature. When Darius incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Illaoi than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Darius had an average win rate of 46.7% when countering Illaoi with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Illaoi as Darius, Darius players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Darius vs Illaoi clashes, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.7% winrate overall.
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