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How to Win Morgana vs Illaoi Counter MatchupMorgana is in the b tier of champions

Morgana vs Illaoi

How to Beat Illaoi as Morgana in LoLMorgana is in the a tier of champions
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How to Beat Illaoi as Morgana

based on 4,038 Morgana vs Illaoi matchups
Win Rate
51.7 %
K/D/A
2.89
Pick Rate
2 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

We at MOBA Champion analyze millions of recently ranked LoL matches each and every week. In our database, Morgana fought Illaoi in 4038 rounds. Using so many games with Morgana versus Illaoi provides us a lot of confidence in our ability to produce useful data and a pro build to defeat Illaoi. This pairing is fairly rare. Morgana encounters Illaoi in only 2.0% of her rounds.

Morgana vs Illaoi Matchup Summary

Morgana does a decent job of beating Illaoi. Typically, she wins a acceptable 51.7% of games the champs oppose each other in. In Morgana against Illaoi matches, Morgana’s side is 0.1% more expected to earn first blood, implying that she most likely will get first blood against Illaoi.

Best Morgana vs Illaoi Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's RingHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
BootsHaunting Guise

Core Morgana Items

~22 Mins
Rylai's Crystal ScepterZhonya's HourglassZaz'Zak's Realmspike

Optional Items

Rabadon's DeathcapCryptbloomHorizon FocusMalignance

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerdot summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Morgana to level upq
>
Second ability for Morgana to level upw
>
Last skill for Morgana to max oute

Runes

SorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
InspirationTriple TonicBiscuit Delivery
Ability HasteAdaptive ForceArmor
Morgana's passive ability p
Morgana's q ability q
Morgana's w ability w
Morgana's e ability e
Morgana's ultimate ability r
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Morgana

Tips for Playing as Morgana against Illaoi

Tormented Shadow is an excellent farming tool if you're by yourself in a lane.

Shrewd use of Black Shield can determine the outcome of team fights.

Items that provide survivability allow Morgana to become extremely difficult to kill in conjunction with Black Shield and Soul Shackles.

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.

Morgana vs Illaoi Counter Stats

Morgana Image
Win Rate
51.7 %
VS
Win Rate
48.3 %
Illaoi Image
3.8
< Kills >
5.3
5.5
< Deaths >
6.8
12.1
< Assists >
4.3
0.85
< Killing Sprees >
1.2
55
< Minions Killed >
188
0.15
< Dragons Killed >
0.06
0.43
< Inhibitors >
0.58
867
< Physical Damage >
24,338
16,481
< Magic Damage >
799
1,043
< True Damage >
408
18,392
< Damage Dealt >
25,545
21,251
< Damage Taken >
36,375
9,739
< Gold Earned >
12,017
1.6
< Towers >
2.72
0.04
< Baron Takedowns >
0.02
4,773
< Total Healing >
8,720
11,918
< Experience >
15,436
51
< Vision Score >
17
22
< Wards Placed >
8
138
< Time Dealing CC >
412

How to Counter Illaoi with Morgana in LoL

The stats shown here underscore several influential Morgana versus Illaoi matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Morgana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Illaoi’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Morgana may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Illaoi. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.

Morgana often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes less damage than Illaoi. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.

Differences between Morgana and Illaoi

Damage Types Compared

Morgana
Illaoi
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Morgana
Illaoi

Who is Better, Morgana or Illaoi?

Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Morgana usually wins when playing against Illaoi, with a 51.7% win rate. Therefore, Morgana makes a good counter to Illaoi.

While Morgana does have a higher winrate than Illaoi, when they face off with one another, Morgana also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Morgana into Illaoi.

Additionally, Morgana also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Illaoi. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.

While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Morgana vs Illaoi matchups, Morgana is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.

Morgana is a decent counter to Illaoi. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Morgana against Illaoi.

Additional Information for Morgana Players

How We Calculated Our Morgana vs Illaoi Build and Stats

For this guide on countering Illaoi as Morgana, we analyzed 4,038 matchups from recent LoL games. We use rigorous data cleaning and processing methods to ensure that our counter stats are of the highest quality. You can rest assured that the recommended build to counter Illaoi as Morgana comes from real data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view the most relevant stats and items to your rank.

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Further Insights to Win this Matchup

If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Morgana in order to counter Illaoi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.

Morgana usually accumulates a lot less CS compared to Illaoi. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.

The ideal items to have in your Morgana versus Illaoi build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Morgana combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Illaoi than with most other common item sets. In fact, Morgana had an average winrate of 51.7% when playing against Illaoi with this build.

To have the best chance of annihilating Illaoi as Morgana, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Morgana vs Illaoi battles, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.7% win rate overall.

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