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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.
Pop Blossom's warning visuals are invisible if Neeko is disguised.
Standing behind minions against Neeko is very dangerous as Tangle-Barbs become stronger.
The stat comparisons provided here feature several critical Illaoi against Neeko counter stats that may help you explain the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Neeko’s ratio of NaN, showing that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Neeko..
Illaoi often has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Typically, she takes more damage than Neeko. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Illaoi usually fairs equally well when facing off against Neeko, with a 49.8% win rate. Thus, Illaoi makes an ok counter for Neeko.
While Illaoi does have a lower win rate compared to Neeko, when facing one another, Illaoi also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Illaoi into Neeko.
Furthermore, Illaoi also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Neeko. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Neeko matchups, Neeko is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Illaoi is a somewhat poor counter to Neeko. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Illaoi against Neeko.
To learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi to counter Neeko during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi on average gets more CS relative to Neeko. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Illaoi versus Neeko build include Sterak's Gage, Spirit Visage, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs Neeko than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Illaoi had an average winrate of 49.8% when countering Neeko with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Neeko as Illaoi, Illaoi players should equip 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 combinations players used for Illaoi vs Neeko face-offs, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.8% winrate overall.
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