Katarina vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Katarina
based on 2,438 Katarina vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Illaoi
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some vital Katarina versus Illaoi counter statistics that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Illaoi’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Illaoi. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Katarina normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Illaoi. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Katarina or Illaoi?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Katarina usually fairs equally well when taking on Illaoi, with a 50.2% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes an ok counter to Illaoi.
While Katarina does have a higher win rate than Illaoi, when facing one another, Katarina also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Katarina into Illaoias her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Illaoi. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Illaoi matchups, Katarina is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a decent counter for Illaoi. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order to counter Illaoi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina most often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Illaoi. Champs who typically don't earn much CS 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, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Katarina versus Illaoi build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when facing Illaoi than with most other common builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 50.2% when playing against Illaoi with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Illaoi as Katarina, Katarina players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Katarina vs Illaoi matchups, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.2% win rate overall.
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