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Illaoi Build 26.22

Illaoi punishes mistakes harder than almost anyone: land Test of Spirit and the enemy now has to either fight her surrounded by tentacles or run and take chunk damage anyway. Middle of the pack at 49.9% and sliding, her whole game is forcing that decision and then slamming a wall of tentacles down on top of it. Give her a cramped fight where she catches two or three people and she can solo a team, catch her in open space with room to kite and she is far easier to handle.

#57 of 106 top this patch · 872 games

Win rate49.9%−1.1Games872Pick rate2.2%Ban rate4.3%Last 8 patches−0.9 since 26.15Damage profilei

AP 3%AD 95%True 2%DifficultyiModerateRewards fundamentals

The 10-second answer standard · 49.9% WR

Spells

Flash + Teleport Start

Plated Steelcaps SkillsE›Q›W Runes

Shards

ModernARAM Counter

173 champions

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When Is Illaoi Strongest?

The early game is the peak, before the enemy team comes online, and games at this rank average around 29 minutes. Illaoi wins by forcing bad fights near her tentacles, so use the power window to shove waves, plant a vessel, and drag the enemy into a brawl where her sustain and slams take over.

Game timeline · Illaoi drag or hover to scrub · space plays · ←/→ step

your power minute by minute · gold = item spikes · small = components · dashed = objectives

Camps1:30Drake / Grubs5:00Herald14:00Baron20:00Avg end28:49

Ambush zone7:36–9:06 Power spike 14:25

13:18

14:25

13:18

16:39

0:00 10:00 20:00 30:00 40:00

At 12:00

Power 63/100 · Even

Core 0/3 items

Gold ~5.1k

Phase Lvl-6 window

Next spike Plated Steelcaps · 13:18

Illaoi Item Build

Illaoi is a bruiser who wants long, drawn-out fights where her tentacles do the work while she soaks damage. The build stacks health, armor, and sustain so she can stand her ground, keep the slams landing, and heal back everything a team throws at her.

Standard loadout · Illaoi The consensus path — reliable spikes, no dead time.

Starting items 500g

Doran's Blade×1

Health Potion×1 Core path · click an item for its recipe ›› Boots

Plated Steelcaps65% · 50.8%

Mercury's Treads35% · 51.6%

Situational items pick an opponent in the bar above — the right swaps light up

vs AP threatsTheir damage is mostly magic — stack magic resist before their second item.K

Kaenic Rookern3865.8%M

Maw of Malmortius4860.4%S

Spirit Visage21447.2%

vs AD threatsPhysical threats spike with lethality — armor answers buy the mid game back.D

Death's Dance16557.0%T

Thornmail9150.5%R

Randuin's Omen7450.0%

vision controlFights are decided a minute earlier by the team that sees first.F

Farsight Alteration13150.4%S

Stealth Ward68650.1%O

Oracle Lens5545.5%

Best Illaoi Runes

Grasp of the Undying is the keystone, and it fits her bruiser identity perfectly, rewarding her for getting into the extended slugfests her tentacles are built for. Every proc stacks health and chip damage, which suits a champion who wins by outlasting you rather than bursting you down. Keep the rest of the page pointed at durability so she survives long enough to make her ult matter.

The pre-game page Grasp of the Undying · Resolve + Precision · keystone + 5 runes + 3 shards

Resolve Primary

Grasp of the UndyingEvery 4s your next attack on a champion deals bonus magic damage, heals you, and permanently increases your health.

Demolish82% · 49.7%

Bone Plating73% · 49.2%

Overgrowth58% · 50.3%

Keystone plus three minors from Resolve, two from Precision, then three shards — no runebook, no masteries.

Precision Secondary

Last Stand88% · 50.1%

Presence of Mind82% · 48.9%

Stat shards Offense

Adaptive Force+9 Adaptive Force

Flex

Adaptive Force+9 Adaptive Force

Defense

Health Scaling+10–180 Health (by level)

Shards give +18Adaptive Force+10–180 Health (by level)

Build toward Black Cleaver into Iceborn Gauntlet and let the tentacle slams grow into a real threat. You want an early lead here, so punish your winning matchups fast. Once Iceborn Gauntlet comes online around 17 minutes, every slam hits hard enough that standing near her during her ult is a death sentence, and her sustain in long fights goes through the roof. Farm the lane, hit your items, and look for the fight her ult wins outright.

Illaoi Skill Order

The opening point lands on Harsh Lesson, the leap that drags nearby tentacles into the same swing, and Test of Spirit then takes levels 2, 4 and 5, so the vessel threat is sharp well before Leap of Faith unlocks at 6.

Skill order · Illaoi R at 6 / 11 / 16 — always

PriorityR

R›E

E›Q

Q›W

WMax E first; Q at level 3.

Lv 123456789101112131415161718

Q38101213max 13

W114151718max 18

E24579max 9

R61116max 16

Illaoi Abilities

Prophet of an Elder God is where her sustain hides, every tentacle that connects with a champion heals her, so a brawl surrounded by them keeps her topped up. Tentacle Smash sharpens those swings and adds one on command, while Harsh Lesson leaps in and forces nearby tentacles to swing together.

Abilities · Illaoipatch 26.22 base numbers · click an ability · all ranks shown

Prophet of an Elder GodPassiveP

Tentacle SmashMax 2ndQ

Harsh LessonMax lastW

Test of SpiritMax 1stE

Leap of FaithUltRRank-up levels here match the skill order below.

Test of SpiritMagic damageMax 1stStatLV 2rank 1LV 4rank 2LV 5rank 3LV 7rank 4LV 9MAXDamage Echo+5 per ranklv 225lv 430lv 535lv 740lv 945Cost+5 per ranklv 235lv 440lv 545lv 750lv 955Cooldown-1 per ranklv 216slv 415slv 514slv 713slv 912s

Illaoi Base Stats

Base stats · IllaoiPatch 26.22

Base statslevel 1 · +per levelAD65+5AS0.625+2.5%MS350Range125HP656+115HP59.5+0.8Armor35+5MR32+2.05MP350+50MP57.5+0.75

Illaoi Matchups

Illaoi crushes immobile melee fighters who have to sit in her tentacle field and duel her on her terms. She struggles against mobile, ranged, or dash-heavy opponents who dodge the spirit pull and refuse the extended brawl she needs to win.

Lane matchups · Illaoi click any opponent to retune the console

Hardest lanes · click to tune

Best hunting

How to lane vs AP mages 01Sidestep their skillshots behind minions, then W onto them to punish.02Rush magic resist and sustain their poke; ward to dodge jungle ganks.03In fights, E their carry near walls and ultimate for tentacle swarm. Win rate by game lengthIllaoi overall · all matchupsUnder 20 min61.6%20–28 min52.6%28–35 min44.7%Over 35 min48.6%

Be careful into Heimerdinger, Trundle, and Teemo, the ranged and mobile picks who can poke Illaoi out or dodge her Test of Spirit and simply refuse the fight she needs. Play around your minions, use terrain to force short-range engages, and never throw the E into open space. She crushes Singed, Dr. Mundo, and Fiora who have to fight her up close, so press that advantage, zone them off farm, and set up the teamfight her ult dominates.

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