Lillia
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Excellent (9/10)
Low Investment
Rare Relics OK
Epic Relics
Lillia is an exceptionally powerful and versatile champion capable of trivializing high-difficulty encounters through superior board control and protective mechanics. While her optimal performance relies on specific Epic relics, she remains highly effective at base star levels, offering a rewarding experience for both resource-light and high-investment players.
Supreme Control
Increases champion draw consistency and reduces the cost of her signature spell, which is essential for maintaining a continuous cycle of summoning and board interaction.
Triggers a strike on summon, allowing Lillia to clear the enemy board repeatedly each time she is played or wakes up from Sleep.- A second copy ensures that Lillia can remove multiple threats or high-health units instantly upon entering the field.
Strategy
This is the most consistent and effective build. The objective is to utilize Lillia's signature spell to repeatedly Sleep her, re-triggering summon effects like Stalker's Blade to maintain absolute board dominance. Having two copies of Lillia on the field allows them to target each other for Sleep, creating an infinite removal engine.
Explosive One-Turn-Kill (OTK)
Protects Lillia from taking damage or dying during her attacks, which is critical when using her as a recurring aggressive threat.
Transforms supported allies into higher-cost units, allowing Lillia to convert her low-cost followers or ephemeral copies into massive threats.
Summons an attacking ephemeral copy of the supported ally. When combined with Death's Foil and Transmogulator, this enables a chain reaction of summons that can fill the board with high-statted attackers.
Strategy
This high-investment build is designed for 6-star Lillia. It leverages the interaction between her ephemeral summon and support relics to generate an overwhelming board state in a single turn. The protected ephemeral copy strikes safely and can be transformed and duplicated to escalate damage rapidly.
Recursive Value Engine
- Vital for drawing Lillia and reducing the cost of her necessary support spells.
Grants Epic items to cards in the deck on summon. Lillia's ability to constantly re-summon herself allows her to stack dozens of Epic items across the deck.- Provides defensive utility and board control while the deck scales through the items granted by Guardian's Orb.
Strategy
This build focuses on long-term scaling. By repeatedly Sleeping Lillia, the deck is flooded with Epic items. This strategy is particularly effective for reaching extremely high stat thresholds, as hitting items like Black Cleaver multiple times can lead to exponential growth.
Other Relic Options
Stuns the strongest enemy on summon. This is an excellent Rare alternative for control-oriented builds, providing additional safety during the early turns.
A Rare substitute for Echoing Spirit that ensures you draw Lillia more consistently, though it lacks the cost reduction for her champion spell.
Summons an additional copy of Lillia from a landmark. This can be used to accelerate the goal of having multiple Lillias on the board simultaneously.
A high-variance option that can grant Lillia numerous keywords, including Lifesteal, due to her recurring summon mechanics.
Lillia functions remarkably well with any relic that triggers 'on summon' or 'play.' Rare relics like Everfrost are highly impactful for players who have not yet acquired her specific Epic pieces.
Constellation
Lillia's constellation is heavily weighted toward speed and consistency. While she is one of the strongest base champions in the game, her upgrades focus on transforming her from a slow control champion into a rapid finisher. Her early upgrades provide significant defensive utility, while her higher-tier stars enable unconventional aggressive strategies.
Sweet Dreams
When you summon a unit without playing it, grant it Spirit.
Too Sleepy
+1 Starting Mana. Round Start: Create a Blooming Bud in hand. If you already have one, reduce its cost by 1.
Sweet Dreams II
When you summon a unit without playing it, grant it Spirit twice.
Crush
Allies have Overwhelm.Review
Provides Overwhelm to allies. While somewhat redundant for pure control builds that win by clearing the board, it is a critical component for aggressive OTK builds, ensuring that her massive stats actually reach the enemy Nexus.
Manaflow
Game Start: Get a mana gem.Review
The additional starting mana is one of her most impactful upgrades. It allows Lillia to be played on the first turn, which significantly accelerates her ability to stabilize against aggressive AI decks.
Dreamwoven Spirits
Each round, the first time you play a unit, summon an Ephemeral copy of it attacking.Review
Summons an ephemeral copy of the first ally played each round. This is a transformative upgrade that allows for significant synergy with support relics like Spectral Scissors and Death's Foil. It is arguably more powerful when applied to high-cost support followers like Alina, as it effectively doubles their impact immediately.
Gameplay Tips
- Maintain the Double Lillia Engine
The most effective state for board control is having two copies of Lillia on the field. This allows you to target one Lillia with the other's Sleep spell, effectively refreshing summon-strike effects like Stalker's Blade every turn while keeping your units safe from enemy targeting.
- Optimize Alina Summons
Dreamer Alina is a vital finisher in the Lillia deck. At level 2, Lillia allows Alina to wake up instantly, triggering her board-fill effect. If you have the 6-star power, playing Alina as your first unit provides immense value, as the ephemeral copy will also trigger the summon effect, often resulting in a fully stat-boosted board and a game-ending attack.
- Defensive Use of Sleep
Sleep is a versatile defensive tool. It can be used as a pseudo-Spellshield to protect Lillia or key followers from removal spells like Vengeance. Additionally, because Sleep turns the unit into a landmark, it bypasses mechanics that target units, such as the Silence effects found in certain high-difficulty adventures.
- Strategic Passing
When facing decks with high removal, such as Veigar or Malphite, it is often better to pass your turn until the enemy has committed their mana. Playing Lillia into open mana can lead to her immediate removal, whereas waiting ensures she can survive long enough to initiate her Sleep cycle.
- Leverage Focus and Burst Speed
Once the constellation node for Burst-speed Sleep is acquired, the deck's power level increases drastically. You can chain multiple Sleep effects in a single turn without giving the opponent an action, allowing you to systematically dismantle the enemy board or grow your units to massive proportions before they can react.