Lucian with Illaoi
How to Synergize Lucian and Illaoi
based on 3,817 Lucian with Illaoi pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Lucian Illaoi Synergy Summary
Best Lucian vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Lucian and Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Lucian with Illaoi
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
Advice to Understand How Illaoi Will Play
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.
Lucian Illaoi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Illaoi as Lucian in LoL
The Lucian Illaoi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Illaoi, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Lucian sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Illaoi. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Illaoi helps Lucian perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lucian plays on the same team as Illaoi, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This may indicate that Illaoi does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Lucian is played with Illaoi on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Illaoi.
Moreover, when Lucian plays with Illaoi on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Illaoi does a poor job of protecting Lucian during teamfights.
Synergies between Lucian and Illaoi
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Is Lucian better when played alongside Illaoi?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Lucian that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, Illaoi is a relatively poor ally for Lucian. By playing on the same side as Lucian, she drops their win rate by -1.2% to 47.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative strategic relationship between Lucian and Illaoi that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Illaoi has a lower difficulty than Lucian. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Illaoi teammates to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Lucian and Illaoi together, you may not be granting your side a lot of support. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Illaoi ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lucian in order to work well with Illaoi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to include in your Lucian and Illaoi synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Lucian bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Illaoi than with most other typical builds. In fact, Lucian boasted an average winrate of 47.6% helping carry Illaoi with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.6% winrate overall.
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