Illaoi·Top Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Illaoi Top build, you should take Flash and Teleport 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 Presence of Mind and Last Stand 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 Iceborn Gauntlet as your first item, followed by Plated Steelcaps and Black Cleaver. For your last 3 items, you should build Sterak's Gage, Spirit Visage and finish with Jak'Sho, The Protean. For the skill order, you want to stick with E - Q - W. Right now, this build has 49.5% winrate over 319 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Illaoi Top build would be to take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, Demolish, Bone Plating and Overgrowth in the primary tree, and Presence of Mind with Last Stand 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 Sundered Sky, 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 Sterak's Gage, Overlord's Bloodmail and Black Cleaver. The skill order for this build is E - Q - W. In the current patch, this build has a 54.5% win rate over 211 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 Black Cleaver 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 Sterak's Gage, Spirit Visage and Frozen Heart. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it E - Q - W. This build is currently sitting at a 56.3% win rate across 190 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Illaoi Top build in the current patch, try Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Haste and Last Stand as your primary rune tree, and Bone Plating with Demolish as your secondary tree. Use Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Black Cleaver as your first item, then finish Plated Steelcaps as your second item, and Iceborn Gauntlet as third item. The last 3 options are Sterak's Gage, Spirit Visage and Overlord's Bloodmail. The ability order for this build is E - Q - W. As of the current patch, this build has a 58.6% win rate over 140 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.