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How to Win Illaoi vs Taliyah Counter MatchupIllaoi is in the a tier of champions

Illaoi vs Taliyah

How to Beat Taliyah as Illaoi in LoLIllaoi is in the s tier of champions
FighterTank
MageSupport

How to Beat Taliyah as Illaoi

based on 673 Illaoi vs Taliyah matchups
Win Rate
48.4 %
K/D/A
1.34
Pick Rate
0.9 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

At MOBA Champion, we analyze millions of ranked League of Legends rounds every week. Within our dataset, Illaoi faced Taliyah in 673 rounds. Having so many games with Illaoi vs Taliyah provides us a lot of confidence in our capability to prepare actionable stats and a supported build to annihilate your opposition. This champion matchup is somewhat rare. Illaoi fights Taliyah in only 0.9% of her rounds.

Illaoi vs Taliyah Matchup Summary

Unfortunately, Illaoi does a dismal job of beating Taliyah. Typically, she wins a lowly 48.4% of matches the champions battle one another in. In Illaoi vs Taliyah matches, Illaoi’s side is 0.0% more expected to get first blood, implying that she most likely will get first blood versus Taliyah.

Best Illaoi vs Taliyah Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Health PotionTear of the Goddess

Early Items

~5 Mins
BootsRuby Crystal

Core Illaoi Items

~22 Mins
Sterak's GageIceborn GauntletJak'Sho, The Protean

Optional Items

HullbreakerSpear of ShojinBlack CleaverSpirit Visage

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerteleport summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Illaoi to level upe
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Second ability for Illaoi to level upq
>
Last skill for Illaoi to max outw

Runes

ResolveGrasp of the UndyingDemolishBone PlatingOvergrowth
PrecisionPresence of MindLast Stand
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceArmor
Illaoi's passive ability p
Illaoi's q ability q
Illaoi's w ability w
Illaoi's e ability e
Illaoi's ultimate ability r
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Guide to Countering Taliyah as Illaoi

Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Taliyah

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 Taliyah

When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.

Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!

Illaoi vs Taliyah Counter Stats

Illaoi Image
Win Rate
48.4 %
VS
Win Rate
51.6 %
Taliyah Image
5
< Kills >
6.3
6.7
< Deaths >
6.2
4
< Assists >
8.5
1.08
< Killing Sprees >
1.48
193
< Minions Killed >
126
0.04
< Dragons Killed >
0.54
0.55
< Inhibitors >
0.42
23,044
< Physical Damage >
801
819
< Magic Damage >
22,293
368
< True Damage >
1,191
24,231
< Damage Dealt >
24,285
35,723
< Damage Taken >
21,352
11,890
< Gold Earned >
12,197
2.73
< Towers >
1.65
0.01
< Baron Takedowns >
0.15
8,561
< Total Healing >
4,372
15,249
< Experience >
14,441
16
< Vision Score >
22
8
< Wards Placed >
9
438
< Time Dealing CC >
569

How to Counter Taliyah with Illaoi in LoL

The stat comparisons shown here highlight several important Illaoi against Taliyah counter statistics that may help you explain the differences between this set of champs. For instance, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taliyah’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Taliyah..

Illaoi typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Taliyah. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.

Differences between Illaoi and Taliyah

Damage Types Compared

Illaoi
Taliyah
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Illaoi
Taliyah

Who is Better, Illaoi or Taliyah?

Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Illaoi usually loses when playing against Taliyah, with a 48.4% win rate. Therefore, Illaoi makes a bad counter for Taliyah.

While Illaoi does have a lower winrate than Taliyah, when facing one another, Illaoi also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Illaoi into Taliyah.

Additionally, Illaoi has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taliyah. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.

While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Taliyah matchups, Taliyah is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.

Illaoi is a somewhat poor counter to Taliyah. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Illaoi against Taliyah.

Additional Information for Illaoi Players

How We Calculated Our Illaoi vs Taliyah Build and Stats

For this guide on countering Taliyah as Illaoi, we analyzed 673 matchups from recent LoL games. We use rigorous data cleaning and processing methods to ensure that our counter stats are of the highest quality. You can rest assured that the recommended build to counter Taliyah as Illaoi comes from real data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view the most relevant stats and items to your rank.

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Further Insights to Win this Matchup

If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi to counter Taliyah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.

Illaoi usually gets more CS as Taliyah. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.

The ideal items to have in your Illaoi versus Taliyah build include Sterak's Gage, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Illaoi incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better against Taliyah than with most other common item sets. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average win rate of 48.4% when countering Taliyah with these items in her kit.

To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Taliyah as Illaoi, Illaoi players 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 rune sets players used for Illaoi vs Taliyah face-offs, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.4% win rate overall.

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