Rek'Sai with Illaoi
How to Synergize Rek'Sai and Illaoi
based on 277 Rek'Sai with Illaoi pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rek'Sai Illaoi Synergy Summary
Best Rek'Sai vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Core Rek'Sai Items
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Guide to Synergizing Rek'Sai and Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Rek'Sai with Illaoi
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.
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.
Rek'Sai Illaoi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Illaoi as Rek'Sai in LoL
The Rek'Sai 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, Rek'Sai sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Illaoi. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Illaoi helps Rek'Sai perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rek'Sai plays on the same team as Illaoi, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Illaoi doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Rek'Sai is played alongside Illaoi on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Illaoi.
Moreover, when Rek'Sai plays with Illaoi on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Illaoi does a poor job of covering Rek'Sai during teamfights.
Synergies between Rek'Sai and Illaoi
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Is Rek'Sai better when played alongside Illaoi?
There is no perfect synergy for Rek'Sai that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Illaoi is a great teammate for Rek'Sai. By locking into the same team as Rek'Sai, she improves their win rate by 3.2% to 51.6%. This signals that there is an important bond between Rek'Sai and Illaoi that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Illaoi has a greater difficulty than Rek'Sai. That means Rek'Sai players should be careful when finding Illaoi teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Rek'Sai and Illaoi together, you may not be providing your other allies a great deal of AP. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Illaoi ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Rek'Sai in order to work well with Illaoi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Rek'Sai and Illaoi synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Rek'Sai used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Illaoi than with most other typical builds. In fact, Rek'Sai had an average win rate of 51.6% when playing alongside Illaoi with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Rek'Sai players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.6% win rate overall.
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