Poke support who generates healing resource through dealing damage. Places a healing pylon for passive heals and delivers long-range burst with Captive Sun.
Abilities
Solar Rifle Precise single-shot hitscan primary; alt-fire heals allies.
Outburst Leaps in any direction with a burst of solar energy, gaining height.
Healing Pylon Places an automatic healing structure on a surface.
Captive Sun Fires a large sphere that makes enemies who take damage explode.
Meta Analysis
Consistent across ranks (Master vs Silver: +0.8%), with a neutral skill curve. Strongest on Control maps (51.1% avg WR) and weakest on Hybrid (48.5%) — a 2.6% spread across game modes. Best on Antarctic Peninsula, Nepal, Runasapi — maps characterized by high-ground and chokepoint terrain, where their vertical mobility finds more angles in elevated terrain and open airspace. Struggles most on Paraiso and Numbani (high-ground, multi-flank, open, long sightlines maps).
Win Rate by Rank
Ban Rate by Rank
(as of 2026-07-26)
Win Rate by Map (All tiers) (per-map data as of 2026-07-26)
Playing Illari? Strongest maps: Watchpoint Gibraltar, Rialto, Shambali Monastery.
Kit fit (✓✓ … ✗✗) rates how well Illari's abilities suit each map's mode and geometry — independent of the observed win rates.
Map Mode Win rate ↓ ± avg Kit fit Bans
Nepal Control 52.6% +2.9% – 0.2% Busan Control 52.1% +2.4% ✗ 0.2% On paper Control's compact arenas on Busan rarely give Solar Rifle room to breathe — but the numbers disagree (+2.4pp vs their average).
Ilios Control 51.1% +1.4% – 0.2% Rialto Escort 50.5% +0.8% ✓✓ 0.2% Oasis Control 50.3% +0.6% – 0.2% Havana Escort 50.2% +0.5% ✓✓ 0.2% Dorado Escort 48.5% -1.2% ✓✓ 0.2% Samoa Control 48.4% -1.3% – 0.2% On paper Midtown's long, uninterrupted firing lanes are prime Illari territory for Solar Rifle — but the numbers disagree (-1.5pp vs their average).
On paper Route 66's long, uninterrupted firing lanes are prime Illari territory for Solar Rifle — but the numbers disagree (-1.5pp vs their average).
Aatlis Flashpoint 45.9% -3.8% ✗ 0.3% Flashpoint's tight capture zones on Aatlis collapse the distance Solar Rifle needs