Illaoi with Heimerdinger
How to Synergize Illaoi and Heimerdinger
based on 936 Illaoi with Heimerdinger pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Illaoi Heimerdinger Synergy Summary
Best Illaoi vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Heimerdinger
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Advice to Understand How Heimerdinger Will Play
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
Illaoi Heimerdinger Synergy Stats
How to Play with Heimerdinger as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi Heimerdinger synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Heimerdinger, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Illaoi sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Heimerdinger. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Heimerdinger helps Illaoi perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Illaoi is an ally to Heimerdinger, she observes a marginal improvement in her total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Heimerdinger supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played with Heimerdinger on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Heimerdinger. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Heimerdinger.
Moreover, when Illaoi plays with Heimerdinger on the same team, she usually takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Heimerdinger does a poor job of protecting Illaoi during team fights.
Synergies between Illaoi and Heimerdinger
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Heimerdinger?
There is no one best companion for Illaoi that will always be her best synergy. However, overall, Heimerdinger is a very typical ally for Illaoi. By being on the same side as Illaoi, he increases their win rate by 0.1% to 49.7%. This signals that there is a weak synergy between Illaoi and Heimerdinger that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Heimerdinger has a much greater difficulty compared to Illaoi. That means Illaoi players should be very careful when finding Heimerdinger allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by bringing Illaoi and Heimerdinger together, you probably will not be providing your team a lot of utility. Plan to bring other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Heimerdinger ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Illaoi in order to synergize with Heimerdinger during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to get in your Illaoi and Heimerdinger synergy build include Black Cleaver, Sundered Sky, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi included at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Heimerdinger than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average win rate of 49.7% when playing alongside Heimerdinger with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Illaoi players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Illaoi and Heimerdinger pairings, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.7% winrate overall.
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