Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some strategic Poppy vs. Illaoi matchup statistics that can help you distinguish the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Poppy’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Illaoi’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Poppy may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Illaoi. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Poppy often has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Typically, she receives less damage than Illaoi. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Poppy usually loses when trying to fight Illaoi, with a 46.8% win rate. As a result, Poppy makes a bad counter to Illaoi.
While Poppy does have a lower win rate than Illaoi, when on opposite teams, Poppy also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Poppy into Illaoi.
Moreover, Poppy has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Illaoi. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Poppy 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 team fights.
Poppy is a garbage counter to Illaoi. Focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Poppy against Illaoi.
To truly master Poppy in order to counter Illaoi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Poppy most often picks up a lot less CS relative to Illaoi. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Poppy versus Illaoi build include Divine Sunderer, Thornmail, and Dead Man's Plate. When Poppy used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Illaoi than with most other common builds. In fact, Poppy boasted an average win rate of 46.8% when playing against Illaoi with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Illaoi as Poppy, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Poppy vs Illaoi LoL games, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.8% win rate overall.
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