Lissandra vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Lissandra
based on 774 Lissandra vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lissandra vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Lissandra vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Lissandra
Tips for Playing as Lissandra against Illaoi
Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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.
Lissandra vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Lissandra in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several influential Lissandra vs. Illaoi counter statistics that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Lissandra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Illaoi’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Lissandra may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Illaoi. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Lissandra typically has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. On average, she takes less damage than Illaoi. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lissandra and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Lissandra or Illaoi?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Lissandra usually loses when taking on Illaoi, with a 48.3% win rate. As a result, Lissandra makes a bad counter for Illaoi.
While Lissandra does have a lower winrate than Illaoi, when facing one another, Lissandra also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Lissandra into Illaoi.
Furthermore, Lissandra also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Illaoi. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Lissandra vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Lissandra is a somewhat poor counter to Illaoi. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Lissandra against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lissandra to counter Illaoi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lissandra typically accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Illaoi. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Lissandra versus Illaoi build consist of Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Lissandra incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs Illaoi than with many other typical builds. In fact, Lissandra had an average winrate of 48.3% when playing against Illaoi with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Illaoi as Lissandra, Lissandra players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Lissandra vs Illaoi counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Illaoi as Lissandra are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.