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Illaoi Build

Top Tier 1

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 38,397 gamesUpdated

51.8%win rate1.8%pick9.4%ban

Who counters Illaoi

Every Top matchup for Illaoi, ranked →

How to build Illaoi

Plated Steelcaps→Black Cleaver→Sterak's Gage→Spirit Visage

Plated Steelcaps → Black Cleaver → Sterak's Gage → Spirit Visage

58.5% win rate 16% of games 4,261 games
RunesResolveGrasp of the UndyingDemolishBone PlatingOvergrowthPrecisionLast StandPresence of Mind36% of games
SpellsFlashTeleportFlash + Teleport60%
Skills
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Tentacle Smash
14578
Harsh Lesson
214151718
Test of Spirit
39101213
Leap of Faith
61116
StartDoran's BladeHealth PotionDoran's Blade, Health Potion
Full Illaoi build →
51.8%win rate
Patch 26.20: 51.1% over 89,026 gamesPatch 26.21: 51.8% over 38,397 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
50.9%at Emerald+
1.8%pick rate
9.4%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
59.5%under 22 min
48.3%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Illaoi champion portraitT IllaoivsTrundle champion portraitT Trundle
9 / 5 / 1

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Black Cleaver→Sterak's Gage→Hullbreaker

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

QWEEEREQEQRQQWWRW
Loss 15–20m
MASTER+
Illaoi champion portraitT IllaoivsYorick champion portraitT Yorick
2 / 3 / 0

Build

Ionian Boots of Lucidity|Stridebreaker

Spells & runes

ExhaustFlash|

Skills

WEQQQRQEQERE
Win 20–25m
MASTER+
Illaoi champion portraitT IllaoivsCho'Gath champion portraitT Cho'Gath
0 / 3 / 6

Build

Mercury's Treads|Stridebreaker

Spells & runes

ExhaustFlash|

Skills

QWEQQRQEQEREEWWR

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 52.9% win rate · 36% of games · 13,653 games
ResolveGrasp of the UndyingDemolishBone PlatingOvergrowth
PrecisionLast StandPresence of Mind
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 49.8% win rate · 22% of games · 8,125 games
PrecisionConquerorPresence of MindLegend: HasteLast Stand
ResolveBone PlatingDemolish
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport60%51.6%24,321 games
  • ExhaustFlashExhaust + Flash18%52.8%7,277 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Plated Steelcaps59%Mercury's Treads34%Boots4%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 52.2% win rate

Illaoi build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Black Cleaver1st
  2. Iceborn Gauntlet2nd
  3. Sterak's Gage3rd
5% of games that reach a third item take this path63.1% win rate1,386 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Illaoi →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 39,521 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
57% · 52.4% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
33% · 52.1% win rate
BootsBoots
3% · 42.4% win rate
No bootsNo boots
3% · 51.5% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
3% · 56.1% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
1% · 55.2% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Black Cleaver›Iceborn Gauntlet+Plated Steelcaps4% of games · 45.8% win rate · 1,630 games
  2. Iceborn Gauntlet›Black Cleaver+Plated Steelcaps3% of games · 46.6% win rate · 1,295 games
  3. Black Cleaver+Plated Steelcaps3% of games · 44.3% win rate · 1,184 games
  4. Iceborn Gauntlet+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 40.8% win rate · 750 games
  5. Black Cleaver›Iceborn Gauntlet+Mercury's Treads2% of games · 49.3% win rate · 617 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Illaoi against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Illaoi's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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