Viktor vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Viktor
based on 939 Viktor vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Viktor vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Viktor vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Viktor
Tips for Playing as Viktor against Illaoi
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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.
Viktor vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Viktor in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some significant Viktor versus Illaoi matchup statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Viktor’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Illaoi’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Viktor may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Illaoi..
Viktor often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes less damage than Illaoi. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Viktor and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Viktor or Illaoi?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Viktor usually wins when facing off against Illaoi, with a 52.2% win rate. Therefore, Viktor makes a good counter to Illaoi.
While Viktor does have a higher winrate than Illaoi, when on opposite teams, Viktor also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Viktor into Illaoias his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Viktor also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Illaoi. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Viktor vs Illaoi matchups, Viktor is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Viktor is an above average counter to Illaoi. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Viktor against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Viktor in order to counter Illaoi during both the early game 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 listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Viktor usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Illaoi. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Viktor versus Illaoi build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Illaoi than with most other common item sets. In fact, Viktor boasted an average win rate of 52.2% when playing against Illaoi with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Illaoi as Viktor, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Viktor vs Illaoi fights, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.2% win rate overall.
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