Illaoi vs Lux
How to Beat Lux as Illaoi
based on 7,323 Illaoi vs Lux matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Lux Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Lux Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lux as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Lux
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 Lux
When retreating with low health, be prepared to dodge Lux's Final Spark, a red targeting beam fires prior to the main beam, so try to move to the side if possible.
Lux has powerful zone control abilities. Try to spread out and attack from different directions so she cannot lock down a specific area.
Illaoi vs Lux Counter Stats
How to Counter Lux with Illaoi in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some vital Illaoi against Lux counter statistics that can help us understand the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lux’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Lux..
Illaoi usually has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Lux. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Illaoi and Lux
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Lux?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Illaoi usually loses when taking on Lux, with a 48.3% win rate. As a result, Illaoi makes a poor counter to Lux.
While Illaoi does have a lower winrate compared to Lux, when facing one another, Illaoi also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Illaoi into Lux.
Moreover, Illaoi has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lux. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Lux matchups, Lux is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Illaoi is a somewhat poor counter for Lux. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Illaoi against Lux.
Other Champion Matchups Against Illaoi
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi in order to counter Lux during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi often accumulates more CS relative to Lux. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Illaoi versus Lux build include Sterak's Gage, Spirit Visage, and Hullbreaker. When Illaoi incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when facing Lux than with many other common builds. In fact, Illaoi had an average win rate of 48.3% when playing against Lux with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Lux 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. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Illaoi vs Lux matchups, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.3% win rate overall.
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