@RIOT How am I supposed to play against Illaoi?

EyesOfTheFox··2 votes·499 views

Just curious... she feels like she has 0 counter play. Her tentacles spawn from two screens away... Once she can take your soul it's gg cause no matter where you are, those tentacles spawn and rape you even when she doesn't have her ult, not sure who thought it would be healthy to give her an ability that follows you all over the map in the first three levels. Just frustrating to play against. The tentacles seem infinite, unlike other champions that place things on the map (Heimerdinger and Zyra come to mind). Just curious as to what Riot thinks is a good way to play around her kit that doesn't involve going afk in the base. There's just no way to escape her even if you have an escape. If Riot thinks this is a healthy champion they are highly mistaken. If you focus her tentacles, you miss cs and she gets free poke, by that time more tentacles are up, so here I am fighting tentacles again. Then her soul take is off cooldown at this point so here come more tentacles...

I feel like the tentacles should not auto spawn. That should not be her passive. She should have to PAY to put those things on the map. If you are going to keep her so powerful at least make her killable. As it stands now she doesn't even have to fight you. She can literally afk and let the tentacles do all the work. The sad part is the fact they auto spawn, so it's really a no brain, no skill, champion. At least the Donger can only have three turrets and he has to pay to put them on the map.

Seriously @RIOT, I'm asking honestly, how am I supposed to play around this? You made her. Help a brother out.

EDIT: Aslo, not sure if this is intentional but I noticed that Teemo's blind doesn't stop her from hitting her tentacle smash.

3 Comments

Nanuk Pihoqahiak2 votes

You walk away from her. No, really. That's the counterplay. She has zero way of actually keeping you there. If you choose to fight her when she uses her ultimate or has a massive tentacle advantage, that's your problem.

EyesOfTheFox1 votes

Yeah, then you try to walk away, she takes your soul, then if you leave the area it slows you and spawns more tentacles near you wherever you are, if you stay in the area more tentacles spawn anyway. She never DOESN'T have a tentacle advantage (meaning she always does). And good luck trying to kill her before she kills your soul. I think she's a cool champion and I'm sure she's fun to play just because you don't really have to work hard to smash people.

Nanuk Pihoqahiak1 votes

Her E is a slow skillshot that is also blockable by minions. In exchange for not having CC, she has a very strong all in. You can kill her tentacles before she ults and you can even cc her while she's ulting to cancel it completely. She's only picked in comps that have enough CC without her. Otherwise, she's useless. This is evidenced by her winrate the higher you climb in rank. Again, if you're dying to her on your own, that's your own problem. Her soul rip isn't going to kill you on its own and the tentacles spawned from it are fairly easy to dodge. If you're constantly getting hit by it, you deserve to lose lane.

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