[Bugs] Illaoi W (when canceled)

Sire Fapalot·11/26/2015, 9:03:02 AM·7 votes·2,087 views

Overview: Illaoi is a great champ and you can make many plays with her however her animations are prone to completely ruin these plays.

---On that note, a little story, Illaoi mid, yasuo is the opponent: Illaoi buffers her W and yasuo hits her with his 3rd Q and ults. Illaoi gets out of the ultimate and spam clicks yasuo, nothing happens. Her W is activated but doesn't go through. 3 tentacles idle nearby and she is very close to turret. Yasuo autos her to death. Why might you ask this happened? Did Illaoi really just idle there and not attack yasuo? Or was it a mechanical issue with the champion...


Example: W: Illaoi leaps to her target on her next basic attack. ISSUE: Illaoi's W is not working If illaoi is hit by an form of CC that cancels this animation, you have to wait for your next auto-attack and your timer apparently does not start until after the crowd control is over. Under multiple crowd control effects this can completely ruin this champion. You literally never auto again after your w has been canceled mid animation.

Solution #1: Illaoi needs better W mechanics. Her W if canceled mid attack should be put on cool-down. After the normal cool-down, Illaoi would be able to use this ability again. Because her W never activates after the stun or cancel, she cannot use this ability until it has expired in her actives window. This means that your champion could be unable to use W for over 8-10 seconds depending on CDR and ability level.

Solution #2: Illaoi's W if canceled will JUMP AGAIN immediately after crowd control at the target if her active W has not expired.

Maybe make illaoi jump a little faster for this one. I understand that she has a slow animation cycle but maybe tune this up a little more.

Since Illaoi's W is super slow in animation it can easily be stopped mid smash and lead to illaoi being unable to use any of her tentacle abilities for the duration of the W's activation.

If you use your W(activated not jumped yet) and then ult, your W never goes through if you canceled it mid Jump with your ultimate. Your W will then be considered a normal auto-attack, however it doesn't activate the tentacles. As said above, you have to wait for the W to wear off then use it again. The above, makes illaoi's ultimate completely useless...


ISSUE: illaoi's E Many time you cast E and see it touch the enemy champion. It looks like it made it and hit but...NOPE

Here the graphics of her ability show the champion throwing her E too far and it does not match the actual distance it covers. Please fix the animation to better match the distance of the "Soul Grappel".


ISSUE: illaoi's ultimate (R) I also have noticed that Illaoi will ult and nothing will happen and the ultimate never activates. When you die, the ultimate will be on cool-down. -meanwhile you sit in your chair and scream....RITO PLEASE

Issue occurs during any time of crowd control, if you click R it should buffer the ultimate and cast it upon availability. However this is not the case. R will not activate at all and stay available yet when you die (sometimes) it is on cool-down. Other times you never can get through the ultimate animation before the next stun hits your or silence.

Bottom line. The animations need to be faster and the abilities need to go off if cast. Hell I respect being shutdown, but if my champion cannot auto or use an ability for 3 seconds and is not being affected by CC, I am gonna be pretty annoyed.

Please bump and POST if you are experiencing any of these issues...

5 Comments

B3ta Boy4/14/2016, 1:34:30 AM3 votes

You are 1000% correct on her W bugs. Just played a match vs. Quinn and Yasuo. If I pressed W, then went to attack, and Quinn blinds me mid-animation or Yasuo knocks me up....Illaoi does nothing until un-blinded. After coming out of blind/kock up, her W is 'active', but I still can't aa anything to use it. I have to wait for the W active to time out, then watch it go on cooldown...then wait for it to come up again to use it. This bug completely ruins illaoi's play, and it's an obvious one at that. To be clear, the issue IS NOT that she can't use W while cc'd. The issue IS that after coming out of CC, the W active is still on...but right clicking targets does nothing. Not even aa. No tentacles. That is a clear bug. And it basically leaves Illaoi paralyzed there until the enemies kill her.

grazer5/4/2016, 4:43:12 AM2 votes

I just played illaoi and had the same experience. The W also cancels animation if you do anything in the windup so you can't buffer movement clicks, it's pretty awful. She's semi-unplayable until all of this gets fixed.

Elusve8/28/2016, 6:33:08 PM1 votes

Now now.. Will this ever get looked into by Riot? Now that is a different story....

oniricrash9/5/2016, 10:57:01 PM1 votes

yeah pretty annoying, i hope that riot will change this