Why Illaoi is "Broken"

VivaLaKitten·May 30, 2016·3 votes·909 views

Simply build tanky, and get massive healing from your tentacles. You have early lane harass, by making the opponent have to avoid every single one of your abilities which will not only heavily damage them but heal you. You can win a 1 v 5 even at the lowest health. People will try avoiding fighting Illaoi in tight spaces to keep her from ulting and tentacles popping on walls (not like there aren't walls everywhere), but wait; they appear anyways. In the end she's a heavy damage unkillable tank that really needs some "changes".

13 Comments

Sahn UzalMay 30, 20162 votes

You do realise Illaoi is really weak right now? ;l

VivaLaKittenMay 31, 20161 votes

not at all actually

spombjopMay 30, 20162 votes

Jhin also

these new champs are all OP just look at this: Ekko Illaoi Jhin AurelionSol Kindred

KVbqbFsC8eMay 31, 20162 votes

Because she's probably the most unfun champion in the game to play against. When I play vs Illaio, I don't actually get to play League, but rather some stupid tentacle dodging minigame.

VivaLaKittenMay 31, 20161 votes

I know right? :/

Cowgirl EdMay 30, 20161 votes

stupid, boring, retarded minigame and soul-less just as all new champs tbh except a few rare occasions

MLDzXnRRRMay 30, 20161 votes

Her E is retarded.

AnonymousPoroMay 30, 20161 votes

Simply build tanky, and get massive healing from your tentacles.

I... what? Of course you're going to get a larger heal if you're building full tank. You have more health to heal off of. But you're not going to do the damage you should be doing if you build full tank.

You have early lane harass, by making the opponent have to avoid every single one of your abilities which will not only heavily damage them but heal you.

Darius

You can win a 1 v 5 even at the lowest health.

That is very, very unlikely. Situational at best.

People will try avoiding fighting Illaoi in tight spaces to keep her from ulting and tentacles popping on walls (not like there aren't walls everywhere), but wait; they appear anyways.

So do people with Poppy. And she has a fuck-ton more utility and more reliable damage than Illaoi.

Her tentacles are her main source of damage. And you can always walk out of her ult range.

In the end she's a heavy damage unkillable tank that really needs some "changes".

Hey everyone, let's take a champ with a 46% winrate who's already weak as shit and nerf her(basically what you're saying)! Because that's a great idea.

Also, Darius does everything you described she does and does it better.

VivaLaKittenMay 31, 20161 votes

your base damage on tentacles along with tanky items that give damage such as black cleaver (which reduces armor) gives you high damage

so? just because theres another high advantage champ doesn't make this one anything different

not situational at all, pop your ult, a tentacle for each nearby enemy, and boom theyre all dead you get massive healing from all the tentacles might I add the tentacles that pop up for each nearby enemy don't have to be near a wall

you can't just walk away from Illaoi because of her E, which if it kills your clone slows you, and if you don't kill her in team fights she deals a ton of damage regardless; the only way to counter her ult is by somehow baiting her to use it then running for your life so that you can fight her in a different area (which I must remind, is not always an option)

I'm not saying nerf her, I'm saying fix her. An alternative would be having her ult tentacles require being on walls. that way she has to be near walls to get her ult going. It will prevent her from being able to just 5 v 1 anywhere and require her to pick a spot to 5 v 1

VivaLaKittenMay 31, 20161 votes

Might I add that even though you don't deal as much damage by building tanky, that's not the point, the point is impossibly high sustain while your team deals out damage, even though in Illaoi's case she still does decent damage while building tanky Have a nice day :P

deathgod5May 30, 20161 votes

yea her almost 46(lolking.net/champions) percent winrate shows she is broken, way to underpowered right now.

VivaLaKittenMay 31, 20161 votes

low winrate doesn't define broken or not, it's the potential she has in the right hands, a champion with a 10% winrate can be revealed as a high potential champion

deathgod5May 31, 20161 votes

ok then lets get more analytical about it.

http://champion.gg/champion/Illaoi/Top

if you look at the winrate per games played, you can see that with even 125+ ranked games, this champion on average scores a 49.8 percent winrate, with an average highest winrate 50 games in with just over 50 percent.

And yes, a player who plays illaoi alot can still pull some amazing moves with her, but I don't think that makes her op. It just makes sense. Op is something like darius rerelease which everyone could just pull out off their ass.

Illaoi has probems, but she can be countered too. she has no hard cc, half baked gapclosers and slows like hers are nothing compared too something that nasus or tresh does.

having said that I do apologize for my first comment, illaoi seems really balanced after looking closer into it. I just can't help being snarky sometimes.