Lux vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Lux
based on 7,323 Lux vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lux vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Lux vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Lux
Tips for Playing as Lux against Illaoi
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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.
Lux vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Lux in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some influential Lux versus Illaoi matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between these two champions. Lux’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Illaoi’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Lux may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Illaoi. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Lux often has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. On average, she receives less damage than Illaoi. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lux and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Lux or Illaoi?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lux usually wins when facing off against Illaoi, with a 51.7% win rate. Therefore, Lux makes a good counter for Illaoi.
While Lux does have a higher winrate than Illaoi, when they face off with one another, Lux also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Lux into Illaoi.
Furthermore, Lux also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Illaoi. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lux vs Illaoi matchups, Lux is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Lux is a decent counter for Illaoi. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Lux against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Lux in order to counter Illaoi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lux usually picks up less CS compared to Illaoi. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Lux versus Illaoi build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Lux included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when facing Illaoi than with most other common builds. In fact, Lux had an average win rate of 51.7% when playing against Illaoi with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Illaoi as Lux, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Lux vs Illaoi clashes, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.7% winrate overall.
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