Zeri vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Zeri
based on 691 Zeri vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zeri vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Zeri vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Zeri
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.
Zeri vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Zeri in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several valuable Zeri against Illaoi matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between this set of champs. For instance, Zeri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Illaoi’s ratio of NaN, showing that Zeri may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Illaoi..
Zeri typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their counter does. On average, they takes less damage than Illaoi. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zeri and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Zeri or Illaoi?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zeri usually loses when facing off against Illaoi, with a 47.8% win rate. As a result, Zeri makes a poor counter to Illaoi.
While Zeri does have a lower win rate than Illaoi, when they face off with one another, Zeri also has a greater difficulty level that makes them a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Zeri into Illaoi.
Furthermore, Zeri also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Illaoi. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Zeri vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Zeri is a garbage counter to Illaoi. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Zeri against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zeri in order to counter Illaoi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zeri usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Illaoi. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Zeri versus Illaoi build include Experimental Hexplate, Runaan's Hurricane, and Navori Quickblades. When Zeri incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they did much better vs Illaoi than with most other common builds. In fact, Zeri boasted an average win rate of 47.8% when countering Illaoi with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Illaoi as Zeri, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Zeri vs Illaoi counterpicks, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.8% win rate overall.
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