Illaoi vs Singed — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Illaoi against Singed · 45.81% win rate over 633 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Closer than it looks — Illaoi owns 6 of the 7 game windows to Singed's 1, but the win rate still favours Singed: you have to convert those windows or the game slips away. Illaoi wins 45.81% of games vs Singed in top lane (633 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1IllaoiYou out-stat Singed at level 1 and Q pressures him with zero counterplay from Poison Trail.
Level 2IllaoiLevel 2 W lets you dash in, reset Harsh Lesson, and win any point-blank trade.
Level 3IllaoiAt 3 your tentacle field plus W outdamages anything his poison ticks can answer.
Levels 4-5IllaoiLevels 4-5 give you enough tentacles that his Fling commitment is a free kill.
Level 6IllaoiLevel 6 R walls him in tentacles, dwarfing his Mega Adhesive and Insanity Potion.
First itemIllaoiFirst item keeps your all-in threat above a tank-building Singed's survivability.
Two+ itemsSingedLate, Singed's proxy-and-Fling kiting outlasts your slow tentacle field and takes over.

Early game (levels 1–5)

You out-stat Singed at every early level — Q pokes him and the wave together, and he has no way to interrupt tentacle slams, so any point-blank trade around his Poison Trail favours you hard.

Read the rest of this matchup

The full Illaoi vs Singed report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.

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