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Choose Champion Build:
- TOP
- JUNGLE
- MID
Recommended Items
Runes:
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+10% Tenacity/Slow Resist
Spells:
Flash
Teleport
Items
Ability Order
Dream-Laden Bough (PASSIVE)
Lillia Passive Ability
Threats & Synergies
Yuumi
Yuumi is generally one of the best supports to duo with. Her kit is especially good on Lillia because it provides you with everything you want. Heal's, extra damage, CC and movement speed. Yuumi combined with your Conqueror will make you unkillable speed demon on the rift.
Yuumi
Yuumi is generally one of the best supports to duo with. Her kit is especially good on Lillia because it provides you with everything you want. Heal's, extra damage, CC and movement speed. Yuumi combined with your Conqueror will make you unkillable speed demon on the rift.
Champion Build Guide
About MeHi, I am KillyOne and this is my Lillia guide for Top, Jungle and Mid lane. I play League of Legends for quite a few years, more accurately since season 4, late season 3. Recently I started making content about it like these Guides, mainly cause I like to make and write stuff. But also to provide the best quality guide I can for those who want to learn more about League of Legends. I also make some YouTube videos here and there and if you find that there is a video linked to this Guide, do go check it out! You can also tune in on my Twitch channel if you see me online.
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About the guideIn this guide I extensively cover everything I know about Lillia and how to play her in the roles stated previously, Top, Jungle and Mid. This is going to be a long read, so get yourself a cup of coffee ☕ or a cup of tea 🍵 if that's what you prefer. Put on some lofi music🎶 and read on! Another thing you might wanna know is that, this guide will contain a lot of images and video clips (which you might have noticed from the introduction alone hehe). So if you are on mobile data 📶 you might wanna switch to WiFi, or ♥ Favorite the Guide for later! Don't worry if you can't read the guide in one go, thats why the guide is in multiple chapters, making it easier for you to navigate and come back to the parts you didn't get to read. You can find the chapters on the right side of your screen, clicking the chapter name will lead you directly to it, saves you the hassle of scrolling through the entire page. You can also import the item sets from the links I provided on the left side. These files can be imported via your League Client, when you go to Item Sets tab and Click Import from File. This is useful because you won't have to search for items every time you play Lillia and when you play her in a different role it will change items to fit that role. Give it a try! Last but not the least, do make sure to 👍 Rate this guide and if you have any questions leave them in the comments. I will do my best to reply to you as soon as possible! |
If a phrase "death by a thousand cuts" was a champion, that champion would most certainly be Lillia. I think this phrase describes her playstyle really well as you really never want to fully commit to an all in, unless the enemy is super low and you know your Q Blooming Blows or W Watch Out! Eep! can finish them off. Her entire kit is built around that idea, of hitting someone then running away and once your abilities are off cooldown you go back in and repeat the proccess. This is what she excels at and this is how you should learn to play her, if you wish to play her effectively and to her full potential. She is extremely squishy champion, not just early but throught most of the game, even with a few defensive items you will still be one of the squishiest champions in the match. This is why it is important to learn to keep your distance with fights and engages, and ultimately this is what makes a difference between a good Lillia player and a bad one. You will hear a lot of people saying that Lillia needs a buff or she will "remain" usless. But this is simply not true, I think she is one of the rare few champions we got that are actually really well balanced for what they are. Riot balancing team doesn't often get praised, but I think we should give them credit where the credit is due. She is not overpowered nor is she underpowered, she is a skill based champion and skilled players will excel at playing her. |
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Lillia's passive is Dream-Laden Bough and you would be forgiven to think that it is similar to Brand's passive Blaze, in the sense that they both deal Percent Health Damage over a short period of time, after attacking enemy with their abilities. This is a pretty nice passive in my opinion and as most things in her kit, it works really well with her playstyle. This passive makes items like Liandry's Torment, Rylai's Crystal Scepter or Morellonomicon much more effective on Lillia than champions who don't have a "tick" passive. What makes it more effective is the fact that the passive will proc these items every time the passive itself procs. When combined with Rylai's Crystal Scepter it enables you to slow opponents with every ability you hit them with. Adding Liandry's Torment on top of that will increase the damage massively as well since Liandry's Torment benefits from Rylai's Crystal Scepter's slow. There are also a few other things you may notice in the clip provided above and that is that she can stack Conqueror really well. Under 10 seconds in fact and if you tried to stack it quicker you could, because in this clip I didn't even try to do it as fast as I can and I only used Q Blooming Blows and Auto Attacks, at level 1. By simply hitting an opponent with 1 of your abilities, you get 4 stacks of Conqueror thanks to your passive. |
Blooming Blows gives your kit main source of mobility as well as damage, making it quite an important ability, thus is the ability you will max out first 99% of the time. |
Yes as the chapter title says, her W Watch Out! Eep! is NOT a dash! I see so many people mistake this for a dash, while in reality it's got nothing to do with dashing. Maybe this confusion comes from her animation, but if you look closely at it, you can see that she actually just winds up her staff and then slams the ground with it. As this ability is not a dash, you can't use it as a gap closer or to jump over walls. You can see the animation in the clip shown below! Now lets talk about what this ability actually does! W Watch Out! Eep! is a short channel 🧨 type ability, that does Area of Effect (AOE) damage in the shape of a circle 🔴 (much like your Q). Unlike the Q Blooming Blows where enemies at the edge take extra damage, in W Watch Out! Eep! enemies hit in the center 🔴 of the ability take twice the damage than those at the edge's ⭕. This ability is best when combined with things like your R Lilting Lullaby or any other form of crowd control that enables you to land the center of your W for maximum damage. This being a channel 🧨 ability, meaning that it takes a short amount of time before it activates, gives your opponents short period of time to cancel the ability by stunning you. But this is very unlikely as the channel time is really short so you shouldn't have to worry too much about that happening. |
Her E Swirlseed comes in the form of a giant rolling seed, that might remind you of Rammus when he is using his Q Powerball. Lillia basically throws the seed and it rolls until it hits something or someone and YES this is a global ability! |
If Swirlseed hits a champion, monster or a minion, it will "explode💥" in form of a cone 🔻. When it explodes it deals damage to everyone inside the cone 🔻 and slows them as well. You can throw the seed over objects and obstacles like walls, turrets, etc if you cast it inside its inital cast radius. Just make sure the radius reaches over the obstacle you want to throw it over. |
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Before we get to the specific roles, I would like to say a few things about picking Lillia. If you are wondering, "what does he mean, about picking Lillia, I want to main her!", well, I want to say that sometimes you might not want to play Lillia in certain matchups. You have to understand Lillia gets hard countered by Assassins and bursty champions especially if they have a gap closer as well. In matchups like that you will have a bad time and you could be the reason your team loses the match. This applies to Lillia regardless of which lane you play her in, so just consider that it might be better to pick someone else at times for your own good ❣.Some examples of Bad vs Good matchups
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"There is no shame in losing when you gave your best, but sometimes giving your best means picking someone else." -KillyOne |
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Lillia top lane is quite a good pick, because she can outrun 🏃♀️ most top laners she is fairly safe, unless you mess up with her and get cought out. She does really well versus melee champions that don't have a high burst and especially when you combine that with a lack of gap closer. Which most popular top laners do not have. As long as you can keep your enemy at your Q Blooming Blows distance and no closer than that, you will be fine.
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Lillia is really good at keeping pressure in her lane, thus forcing the enemy jungler to respond and come to your lane. Expect this to happen quite often especially the better you get at Lillia, the more the enemy team will be forced to come top and try to shut you down. Do not be scared of things like ganks, but be careful of them of course, because no matter how good you are, if you find yourself in a bad position, it can cost you quite a bit. You have the tools 🛠 to outplay the gank or at the very least get away without dying, so learn to use those tools. |
In this clip I got ganked by enemy Kayn that was very close to killing me had he got just a little bit closer to me at the end. But I managed to get my Lilting Lullaby on him which allowed me to land a perfect W Watch Out! Eep! 🔴 dunk and finish it off with a Q Blooming Blows. Once you land your R Lilting Lullaby you are able to do large amount of damage to the unfortunate soul that finds themself hit by it. |
Stacking your passive Dream-Laden Bough is really important in lane and since you can stack it off minion waves as well as champions, there is no reason not to have it stacked up most of the time. It provides you with great mobility advantage over your opponent and enables you to do what Lillia does best. Hit and run until your enemy is dead or tilted to death. Keep up the pressure if you are winning your lane, there is no reason not to capitalize on it. Take the tower plates 🍽, take the towers, if your laner is pushed in go roam for rift scuttler or enemy buff. Help your team mates gain an advantage by roaming to their lane and puttin pressure on their laner, etc. Help take objectives like rift herald or dragons, your team mates will appreciate you for it. |
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I start my jungle rotation on Red Buff side of the map, unless I am unable to do so in case of an Invade by enemy team. In which case I would look to steal the enemy Red Buff and then move to my Blue Buff, or commonly known as "vertical jungling ⏸ 🌳". Don't be like this Heimerdinger that just put down his turrets and left, give your jungler a decent leash on the first buff. |
After you take the Red Buff, you can move on to raptors. Lillia has a pretty easy time taking these due to her AOE and low cooldown on her Q Blooming Blows. |
When the raptors are finished, you rotate over to murk wolf camp, which shouldn't take too long.
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If you play your cards 🃏 correctly you can actually take Blue Buff without taking damage from it. This is because you are a ranged champion, even tho the range is small it still allows you to outplay jungle camps like Blue buff into taking far less damage than if you were in melee range. In the following clip I have not kited my Blue buff perfectly, that is why I took some more damage, but I was still healthy enough to take my gromp. |
Because I didn't kite my Blue buff very well, I had to Smite the gromp to regain some health. After taking the gromp I recall and buy my items, then look to make a play bot lane. If we can't make a play then simply go and take the rift scuttler, after which you can go to krugs and repeat your rotation from there. |
I use this same rotation when playing on either side of the map. I start Red buff, move to raptors, murk wolf, Blue buff and then gromp. If you are healthy enough you should look to make a play in the bot lane or take rift scuttler. Enemy jungler will usually not expect you to start Red buff and move towards bot lane that early, so use that in your advantage as a surprise tactic. |
There is one item that is going to be your best friend as a jungler. That item is Sweeping Lens. Use this item to sweep out enemy bushes before you try to gank. If there is a ward and enemy is backing away cause they saw you. Then just clear out the ward and wait a few moments to see if enemy will try to ward again. If they do you can ping your team mates to engage and look to get a kill or a few summoner spells. |
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When taking objectives such as Dragon, I recommend you seek assistance of your team mates. Lillia isn't the best in taking Dragons on her own. It is doable, but I wouldn't recommend it as something you should seek to do all the time. Only if you know you are safe for a while, only then you should look to solo a Dragon and even then you need to be at full health. You will also need to have Smite ready because you will get low on health while fighting a Dragon. |
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When playing Lillia mid lane your goal, much like whit top lane, is not neceserilly to kill your laner all the time. It's more about keeping pressure on your lane and around the map. Lillia is good at roaming due to her mobility and if you get really good at landing your E Swirlseed you might not even have to leave your lane in order to provide some surprise 🎱 💥 damage to enemy top lane or bot lane. You have the ability to stay relatively safe in most matchups (unless you are facing mobile assassins like we talked about)
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If you have made it this far and actually read my entire guide, congradulations! I sincerely thank you ♥ for your time and really hope that my guide has helped you at least a little bit to learn something new about Lillia and League of Legends. It is rare that people put this kind of effort to improve in something, especially in games. Most just turn to excuses and blaming random things or people, but not you. You have decided to take a different path, a path of self improvement! With such mindset it is only a question of "when?" will you reach your desired goal and not a question of "if" you will reach it. Keep being amazing! I wish you the best of luck in Life and the Fields of Justice! See you around, cheers 🍻 -KillyOne |
-22nd August, 2020 - Minor update for patch 10.16b
-15th August, 2020 - Added more Threats for Top/Jungle/Mid
-5th August, 2020 - Updated for patch 10.16
-4th August, 2020 - Guide released
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