Illaoi W is not interruptable...?

Möral Support·Jun 30, 2017·2 votes·320 views

I don't remember is this is intentional or not, but if you knock Illaoi up while she is in the middle of her W the damage still winds up.

The entire reason her W has an animation is to make contact with the ground. If Illaoi doesn't reach the ground there should be no reason that she can summon a tentacle attack.

5 Comments

ZielmannJun 30, 20173 votes

It comes down to animations vs. channels. Her W just has a long animation, so once it's started it's going to finish (unless she dies before the animation completes). Similar to this, you can't knock Lux or Ezreal out of their ults, as those are just long animations. You also see this with jumps/dashes. If Ezreal starts his E animation right as CC is about to hit him, he'll still blink to the target location and then be CC'd once he gets there.

Edit: I had her abilities mixed up (have hardly ever played her, mb). The above holds true for animations. What's been said by others about the empowered auto is correct.

KoKobotoJun 30, 20173 votes

Don't listen to these other people. If she is right next to you it works as an auto attack reset and you can't cancel auto attacks. If she is far enough that she has to leap than the attack is able to be canceled.

Poppy vs Illaoi

I am PacmanJun 30, 20171 votes

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Don't listen to these other people. If she is right next to you it works as an auto attack reset and you can't cancel auto attacks. If she is far enough that she has to leap than the attack is able to be canceled.

Poppy vs Illaoi

This is correct, don't listen to the other people.

Source: Illaoi main

Shuyin178Jun 30, 20171 votes

There are a lot of champions whose spells go off even when interrupting CC (like Knockups and stuns) hit them, so this isn't just restricted to Illaoi.

DeathBurstJun 30, 20171 votes

Illaoi W is an empowered basic attack. Basic attack are not interruptible once their animation started. So yes, this is intentional. It's like how the arrow from an ADC will still hurt you even if you stun the ADC while it's still in the air, or like how even if you flash out of range of a Malphite basic attack it will still hurt you as long as he started the animation.