Syndra vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Syndra
based on 1,479 Syndra vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Syndra vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Syndra vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Syndra
Tips for Playing as Syndra against Illaoi
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
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.
Syndra vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Syndra in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several important Syndra versus Illaoi matchup stats that may help you grasp the distinctions between the two. For instance, Syndra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Illaoi’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Syndra may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Illaoi..
Syndra normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Illaoi. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Syndra and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Syndra or Illaoi?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Syndra usually loses when trying to fight Illaoi, with a 47.9% win rate. As a result, Syndra makes a poor counter to Illaoi.
While Syndra does have a lower win rate compared to Illaoi, when they face off with one another, Syndra also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Syndra into Illaoias her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Syndra has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Illaoi. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Syndra vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Syndra is a bad counter for Illaoi. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Syndra against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Syndra in order to counter Illaoi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Syndra typically racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Illaoi. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Syndra versus Illaoi build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Syndra bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better countering Illaoi than with many other common item sets. In fact, Syndra boasted an average winrate of 47.9% when playing against Illaoi with this counter build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Illaoi as Syndra, Syndra players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Syndra vs Illaoi clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.9% winrate overall.
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