Illaoi vs Lulu
How to Beat Lulu as Illaoi
based on 976 Illaoi vs Lulu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Lulu Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Lulu Counter Build
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Core Illaoi Items
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Guide to Countering Lulu as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Lulu
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 Lulu
Lulu excels when opponents heavily commit. Don't give her this chance! Use heavy harass tactics instead to force Lulu and her partner out of lane.
The shots from Lulu's faerie can be intercepted - hide behind your minions to avoid the additional Faerie attacks.
Illaoi vs Lulu Counter Stats
How to Counter Lulu with Illaoi in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several important Illaoi vs. Lulu counter statistics that can help you understand the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lulu’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Lulu. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Illaoi typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. On average, she receives more damage than Lulu. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Illaoi and Lulu
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Lulu?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Illaoi usually wins when taking on Lulu, with a 52.2% win rate. Therefore, Illaoi makes a good counter to Lulu.
While Illaoi does have a higher win rate than Lulu, when on opposite teams, Illaoi also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champ to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Illaoi into Lulu.
Moreover, Illaoi has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lulu. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Lulu matchups, Illaoi is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Illaoi is a good counter to Lulu. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Illaoi against Lulu.
Other Champion Matchups Against Illaoi
Additional Information for Illaoi Players
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Illaoi to counter Lulu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi on average racks up much more CS as Lulu. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Illaoi versus Lulu build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi used at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs. Lulu than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Illaoi had an average winrate of 52.2% battling Lulu with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Lulu as Illaoi, you should take 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 runes that we analyzed for Illaoi vs Lulu battles, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.2% winrate overall.
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