Illaoi vs Caitlyn
How to Beat Caitlyn as Illaoi
based on 6,981 Illaoi vs Caitlyn matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Caitlyn Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Caitlyn Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Caitlyn as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Caitlyn
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.
Advice to Win Against Caitlyn
Keep behind allied minions if Caitlyn is harassing you with Piltover Peacemaker (it deals less damage with each subsequent target).
You can intercept Ace in the Hole's missile from hitting an ally if you stand in its path.
Illaoi vs Caitlyn Counter Stats
How to Counter Caitlyn with Illaoi in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some important Illaoi vs. Caitlyn counter statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Caitlyn’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Caitlyn..
Illaoi often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Caitlyn. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Illaoi and Caitlyn
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Caitlyn?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Illaoi usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Caitlyn, with a 50.0% win rate. Therefore, Illaoi makes an ok counter to Caitlyn.
While Illaoi does have a higher win rate compared to Caitlyn, when on opposite teams, Illaoi also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging character to learn. You should be careful when picking Illaoi into Caitlyn.
Furthermore, Illaoi has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Caitlyn. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Caitlyn matchups, Caitlyn is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Illaoi is a decent counter for Caitlyn. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Illaoi against Caitlyn.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Illaoi in order to counter Caitlyn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as Caitlyn. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Illaoi versus Caitlyn build include Sterak's Gage, Hullbreaker, and Sundered Sky. When Illaoi included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better versus Caitlyn than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Illaoi had an average winrate of 50.0% when countering Caitlyn with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Caitlyn as Illaoi, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Illaoi vs Caitlyn counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Caitlyn as Illaoi are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.