Illaoi·Support Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Illaoi Support build, you should take Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, followed by Demolish, Bone Plating and Overgrowth in the primary tree, as well as Last Stand and Presence of Mind in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Celestial Opposition as your first item, followed by Plated Steelcaps and Iceborn Gauntlet. For your last 3 items, you should build Black Cleaver, Spirit Visage and finish with Heartsteel. For the skill order, you want to stick with E - Q - W. Right now, this build has 42.5% winrate over 508 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Illaoi Support build would be to take Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Conqueror as your keystone, Presence of Mind, Legend: Haste and Last Stand in the primary tree, and Bone Plating with Demolish in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Celestial Opposition, which you should build first, followed by Plated Steelcaps as your second item and Iceborn Gauntlet as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Black Cleaver, Spirit Visage and Thornmail. The skill order for this build is E - Q - W. In the current patch, this build has a 41.3% win rate over 356 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, Demolish, Bone Plating and Overgrowth in the primary tree, and Last Stand with Presence of Mind in the secondary tree, as well as Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Solstice Sleigh as your first item, then Plated Steelcaps as a second item and Iceborn Gauntlet as a third item. You want to finish the build with Black Cleaver, Spirit Visage and Thornmail. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it E - Q - W. This build is currently sitting at a 45.9% win rate across 281 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Illaoi Support build in the current patch, try Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating and Overgrowth as your primary rune tree, and Last Stand with Presence of Mind as your secondary tree. Use Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Iceborn Gauntlet as your first item, then finish Plated Steelcaps as your second item, and Black Cleaver as third item. The last 3 options are Spirit Visage, Thornmail and Sundered Sky. The ability order for this build is E - Q - W. As of the current patch, this build has a 47.9% win rate over 73 matches played.

Situational Illaoi Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Illaoi build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.