Illaoi vs Soraka
How to Beat Soraka as Illaoi
based on 1,570 Illaoi vs Soraka matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Soraka Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Soraka Counter Build
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Starter Items
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Core Illaoi Items
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Summoner Spells
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Guide to Countering Soraka as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Soraka
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 Soraka
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
Illaoi vs Soraka Counter Stats
How to Counter Soraka with Illaoi in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some strategic Illaoi vs. Soraka counter statistics that may help you figure out the differences between these two champs. Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Soraka’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Soraka. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Illaoi often has a much larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives more damage than Soraka. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Illaoi and Soraka
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Soraka?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Illaoi usually fairs equally well when facing off against Soraka, with a 49.4% win rate. Thus, Illaoi makes an ok counter to Soraka.
While Illaoi does have a lower win rate compared to Soraka, when they face off with one another, Illaoi also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Illaoi into Soraka.
Furthermore, Illaoi has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Soraka. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Soraka matchups, Soraka is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Illaoi is a somewhat poor counter for Soraka. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Illaoi against Soraka.
Other Champion Matchups Against Illaoi
Additional Information for Illaoi Players
How We Calculated Our Illaoi vs Soraka Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi in order to counter Soraka 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 stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi on average picks up much more CS relative to Soraka. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Illaoi versus Soraka build include Black Cleaver, Hullbreaker, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Soraka than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Illaoi had an average winrate of 49.4% battling Soraka with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Soraka 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. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Illaoi vs Soraka clashes, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.4% winrate overall.
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