Kai'Sa vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Kai'Sa
based on 2,982 Kai'Sa vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Illaoi
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Advice to Win Against Illaoi
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Kai'Sa vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several valuable Kai'Sa vs. Illaoi matchup stats that can help us distinguish the distinctions between the two. For instance, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Illaoi’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Illaoi..
Kai'Sa often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Typically, she takes less damage than Illaoi. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Illaoi?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when trying to fight Illaoi, with a 47.0% win rate. As a result, Kai'Sa makes a poor counter to Illaoi.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower win rate compared to Illaoi, when they face off with one another, Kai'Sa also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Kai'Sa into Illaoi.
Moreover, Kai'Sa has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Illaoi. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Kai'Sa is a trash counter for Illaoi. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Kai'Sa against Illaoi.
Other Champion Matchups Against Kai'Sa
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kai'Sa in order to counter Illaoi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa usually racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Illaoi. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Kai'Sa versus Illaoi build include Statikk Shiv, Nashor's Tooth, and Guinsoo's Rageblade. When Kai'Sa incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when facing Illaoi than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average win rate of 47.0% battling Illaoi with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Illaoi as Kai'Sa, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Kai'Sa vs Illaoi counter picks, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.0% winrate overall.
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