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Everything for Illaoi Top on patch 16.11, pulled from real Emerald+ ranked games — the build path, rune pages, the counters worth banning, the strongest teammates, and Illaoi's win conditions.
Illaoi is an AD juggernaut in the top, and on patch 16.11 they grade out as a solid mid-tier pick — a 52.3% win rate, 2.5% pick rate, 29,215 ranked games sampled. On the power curve, Illaoi spikes hardest in the mid game around the two-to-three-item mark — that is the window to force fights and objectives.
How Illaoi wins: splitpushing a side lane and forcing the enemy to answer it, and winning the wave and turning push priority into map control. The kit grades 7/10 split-push, 7/10 waveclear. Illaoi's soft spots are engage and roaming (3/10, 3/10) — avoid fights that hinge on them.
The most-played core build is Black Cleaver, Iceborn Gauntlet, Sterak's Gage, which holds a 59.8% win rate across 1,263 games this patch. Item order and defensive swaps update against whichever enemy comp you select.
The matchup to respect is Kog'Maw, where Illaoi sits at just 42.4%, the lane swings the other way into Mel (61.1%), and on the team side, Illaoi gains the most from a Swain (+10.8% pair win rate).
Illaoi's highest-volume core items and rune page this patch. Select the enemy composition above and the build re-optimizes for that exact matchup.
The picks Illaoi Top struggles into most this patch, sorted by your in-matchup win rate. These are your priority bans.
Who Illaoi Top wants on the team: partners with the biggest positive swing on Illaoi's win rate this patch.
Best Jungle partners for Illaoi
Best Mid partners for Illaoi
Best ADC partners for IllaoiIllaoi is also played in this other role this patch.
For full draft-time coaching with all 10 picks, use the Team Builder. To see Illaoi's tier on this patch, see the Tier List.
