After binging on Illaoi, I am ashamed of myself

SymbolicFear·Dec 17, 2015·4 votes·918 views

Illaoi is so stupidly strong, the whole reason I played her was because she was so anti-fun to deal with but hilarious to see a 5 man gank just to mutilate them all, forcing the last survivor to run with their tail between their legs.

My advice to Riot, take away her heal on tentacle slaps and change it to a 20% heal on her W, that way she won't be healing for 600 with each hit in teamfights and she will still have a way to heal herself in combat with a low cooldown. Also, her E needs to be fixed up to where if the target escapes, the effect doesn't activate. Cause that ability already does a lot of damage and the area it has is way too big when escaping does absolutely nothing for you.

That will make Illaoi much more balanced and not as anti-fun. But of course, since she is a juggernaut, she needs to be anti-fun for anyone dealing with her and she needs to keep her title of being broken.

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Critmaster GarenDec 17, 20153 votes

shes not too strong.

and shes designed as a juggernaut. diving on her is possibly the worst thing you can do, as her ult gets stronger with each enemy champion near her.

didnt you read her abilities? you dont fight her head on. you fight her by kiting her back in open space where you can keep moving and get out of range of the tentacles.

illaoi fights similar to heimerdinger, who just barricades himself in a nest of turrets. only in her case its tentacles instead of turrets. but its the same deal. she creates her own turf.

ZLbSwAR23IDec 17, 20152 votes

shes not too strong.

[Citation Needed]

and shes designed as a juggernaut. diving on her is possibly the worst thing you can do, as her ult gets stronger with each enemy champion near her.

"LOL guys just DON'T FIGHT HER come on! If there's a teamfight, just RUN AWAY! Even if the other team has (I was going to list champions here but it's easier to say just "champion with CC") JUST DON'T FIGHT counterplay easy"

didnt you read her abilities?

He said he's been playing as her. Didn't you read the OP?

illaoi fights similar to heimerdinger, who just barricades himself in a nest of turrets.

Except Heimerdinger doesn't:

Spawn up to five turrets instantly whilst doing AOE damage at the same time when a teamfight starts
Heal a disgusting amount for each time the tents slam down
Have the (potentially) longest-lasting CC in the game with his E
Have a gap closer with his W (which has a ~2 second cooldown)
Build as a tank, which allows him even more survivability in teamfights
Have immortal turrets when he ults
Have turrets which require two hard attacks to kill, instead of taking damage like everything else
Have turrets which aren't attacked by map turrets

tl;dr Thanks for trying.

Critmaster GarenDec 17, 20152 votes

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Spawn up to five turrets instantly whilst doing AOE damage at the same time when a teamfight starts

Heal a disgusting amount for each time the tents slam down

Have the (potentially) longest-lasting CC in the game with his E

Have a gap closer with his W (which has a ~2 second cooldown)

Build as a tank, which allows him even more survivability in teamfights

Have immortal turrets when he ults

Have turrets which require two hard attacks to kill, instead of taking damage like everything else

Have turrets which aren't attacked by map turrets

heimer sets up 3 turrets that stay there indefinitely, and his super turret on demand, while hiding behind zonyas.

you can prevent the heal by avoiding the tentacles. their attacks are telegraphed.

the gap closer on her w is tiny. its almost melee range.

heimers turrets might not be untargetable, but theye much harder to take out than her tentacles when she doesnt ult. especially the super turret. instead of a short time window where he owns the place, he can permanently set up shop.

he also has far better poke and cc than her. he can play the passive game and stay at a distance incredibly well.

illaois e is not a cc. its a debuff that barely does anything. you have 3 possibilities to counterplay test of spirit. 1) dont get hit by the skillshot. 2) deal damage to her while she tries to kill the spirit to make it despawn. 3) walk out of the area and kill 3 tentacles. you get the debuff but avoid her dealing damage to you.

also, heimers base health regeneration is ridiculous. its the highest in the game. its as strong as garens passive at lvl 1 with the difference that its permanently active and he doesnt move himself into danger as much to cs. so much for sustain.

the entire point of this wasnt even to compare whos stronger at turf fighting. illaoi or heimer. im saying they work similar, and you deal with her by 1) not letting her get into the middle of your team to ult. and 2) if she manages to get into your team, by not fighting on the turf she creates.

Critmaster GarenDec 17, 20151 votes

{quoted} [Citation Needed]

almost forgot this. she has a 46% winate. if anything shes going to get buffs.

http://champion.gg/champion/Illaoi

just for clarification. i havent even played her yet. i read upon her kit and i own her. i also played against her a couple times. and realistically shes not too strong. if anything, shes overall too weak.

ErockandrollDec 17, 20151 votes

I only got to play her in a bot game. And all I know is that the coop vs AI bots don't know how, and don't deal with Ilaoi's tentacles. Which gives me a pretty decent basis on how powerful she is when people don't even attempt damage control. (And I didn't feel that powerful when I didn't have a tentacle to work with.)

But the complaints against her ult, is exactly what she's suppose to be good at. Don't complain about what makes Ilaoi, Iloaoi.