Illaoi vs Kassadin
How to Beat Kassadin as Illaoi
based on 873 Illaoi vs Kassadin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Kassadin Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kassadin as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Kassadin
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 Kassadin
It takes 6 spell casts for Kassadin's slow, Force Pulse, to become castable. If he levels up that ability, judiciously use your own skills while laning against him.
Kassadin deals mostly magic damage. If he's doing well consider buying magic resist items like Mercury's Treads and Banshee's Veil.
Each time Kassadin consecutively uses Riftwalk, he pays more and more mana. Keep this in mind as you chase him.
Illaoi vs Kassadin Counter Stats
How to Counter Kassadin with Illaoi in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some valuable Illaoi against Kassadin counter stats that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kassadin’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Kassadin..
Illaoi normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Kassadin. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Illaoi and Kassadin
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Kassadin?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Illaoi usually fairs equally well when playing against Kassadin, with a 50.7% win rate. Thus, Illaoi makes an ok counter for Kassadin.
While Illaoi does have a higher winrate than Kassadin, when on opposite teams, Illaoi also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Illaoi into Kassadin.
Moreover, Illaoi also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kassadin. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Kassadin matchups, Illaoi is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Illaoi is a decent counter to Kassadin. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Illaoi against Kassadin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Illaoi in order to counter Kassadin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi typically accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Kassadin. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Illaoi versus Kassadin build include Black Cleaver, Sundered Sky, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Kassadin than with most other typical builds. In fact, Illaoi had an average winrate of 50.7% when countering Kassadin with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Kassadin as Illaoi, 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 builds that we analyzed for Illaoi vs Kassadin LoL games, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.7% winrate overall.
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