Lee Sin vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Lee Sin
based on 1,977 Lee Sin vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lee Sin vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Lee Sin vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin against Illaoi
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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.
Lee Sin vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Lee Sin in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several important Lee Sin against Illaoi counter statistics that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Lee Sin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Illaoi’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Lee Sin may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Illaoi..
Lee Sin often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Illaoi. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lee Sin and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Lee Sin or Illaoi?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Lee Sin usually loses when facing off against Illaoi, with a 46.4% win rate. Thus, Lee Sin makes a bad counter for Illaoi.
While Lee Sin does have a lower winrate than Illaoi, when on opposite teams, Lee Sin also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Lee Sin into Illaoi.
Moreover, Lee Sin also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Illaoi. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lee Sin 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 allied champions during teamfights.
Lee Sin is a bad counter for Illaoi. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Lee Sin against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lee Sin in order to counter Illaoi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lee Sin typically picks up a lot less CS as Illaoi. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions 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 have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Lee Sin versus Illaoi build include Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Lee Sin used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Illaoi than with most other common item sets. In fact, Lee Sin had an average win rate of 46.4% when playing against Illaoi with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Illaoi as Lee Sin, Lee Sin players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Lee Sin vs Illaoi clashes, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.4% winrate overall.
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