Illaoi with Rek'Sai
How to Synergize Illaoi and Rek'Sai
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Illaoi Rek'Sai Synergy Summary
Best Illaoi vs Rek'Sai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Rek'Sai
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 Rek'Sai Will Play
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
Illaoi Rek'Sai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rek'Sai as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi Rek'Sai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rek'Sai, 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 Rek'Sai. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Rek'Sai helps Illaoi perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Illaoi tries to synergize with Rek'Sai, she observes a small increase in her total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Rek'Sai provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played together with Rek'Sai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Rek'Sai. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Rek'Sai.
Moreover, when Illaoi plays with Rek'Sai on the same side, she usually takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Rek'Sai does a poor job of covering Illaoi in teamfights.
Synergies between Illaoi and Rek'Sai
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Rek'Sai?
There is no perfect ally for Illaoi that will always be her best synergy. Yet, overall, Rek'Sai is a good ally for Illaoi. By playing on the same team as Illaoi, he raises their win rate by 2.0% to 51.6%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Illaoi and Rek'Sai that results in them performing better together than alone.
Rek'Sai has a lower difficulty than Illaoi. That means Illaoi players don't need to be very careful when finding Rek'Sai comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Illaoi and Rek'Sai together, you will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of magic damage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Rek'Sai ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi in order to pair well with Rek'Sai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to prioritize in your Illaoi and Rek'Sai synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi used at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Rek'Sai than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average win rate of 51.6% when playing alongside Rek'Sai with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you 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. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Rek'Sai with Illaoi are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.