Elise vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Elise
based on 443 Elise vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Elise vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Elise vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Elise
Tips for Playing as Elise against Illaoi
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
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.
Elise vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Elise in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several valuable Elise vs. Illaoi matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Illaoi’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Illaoi..
Elise often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes less damage than Illaoi. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Elise and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Elise or Illaoi?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Elise usually wins when taking on Illaoi, with a 52.4% win rate. Thus, Elise makes a good counter to Illaoi.
While Elise does have a higher winrate than Illaoi, when they face off with one another, Elise also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Elise into Illaoias her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Elise has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Illaoi. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Elise vs Illaoi matchups, Elise is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Elise is an above average counter for Illaoi. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Elise against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Elise in order to counter Illaoi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise typically racks up a lot less CS as Illaoi. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Elise versus Illaoi build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Illaoi than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Elise boasted an average winrate of 52.4% when playing against Illaoi with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Illaoi as Elise, Elise players should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Elise vs Illaoi counterpicks, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.4% win rate overall.
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