How to win lane as Kled against Illaoi · 48.3% win rate over 352 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Kled | You concede nothing here — she has no spammable poke and is slow to build her field, so step up and set up your Level 2 trade. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | W's on-hit shots give you a real burst window, but a tentacle-less Illaoi can still answer with E, so it's a genuine coin-flip skill check. |
| Level 3 | Illaoi | Your full re-E all-in wants melee range, but that's where her tentacles live — by 3 the E (Test of Spirit) pull plus tentacle slaps out-trade you. |
| Levels 4-5 | Illaoi | Stacked tentacles mean every joust in costs Skaarl mount HP and heals her, so her field out-sustains your percent-HP Q across 4-5. |
| Level 6 | Illaoi | Her R (Leap of Faith) raises a tentacle wall that melts your mount on any dive — you cannot all-in into her ult window. |
| First item | Illaoi | Her Divine Sunderer/Bork plus tentacle stacks out-sustain your Eclipse/Trinity burst — her first-item field DPS beats your peak here. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | You both fall off the stat-check, so it evens — but respect her R in fights and only engage her field on your terms with R flanks. |
Levels 1-2 are your only clean window — you concede little at 1 because she's slow to set up, and once W (Violent Tendencies) is online your fourth-attack on-hit shots out-burst a tentacle-less Illaoi. Hit her with a short Q-W trade and back off before her tentacles exist. The trap: the moment she lands E (Test of Spirit) and rips your spirit, her tentacles slap you for free and your re-E all-in just feeds her sustain. Do NOT sit in her field trading autos.
The full Kled vs Illaoi 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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