about the illaoi situation on top lane

she shits on melee champions (except for a few highly mobile ones) and gets shit on by ranged.

ive said this since they made her tentacles visible in bushes and the fog of war.

make her tentacles visible, but not targetable without direct vision. this way ranged champions need to walk up to them just like melee champions when they want to take out a tentacle in a bush. the original argument for this change was that her opponents were supposed to have more information to how strong she actually is when youre engaging on her and not be able to hide 2 or 3 extra tentacles in stopts where you dont have vision, since a large portion of her power budget is in her tentacles.

( no double standarts here. what are you looking at? )

there was never a reason in the first place to let her opponents see and attack tentacles in spots they dont have direct vision into. being able to attack tentacles in bushes from outside isnt neccessary to gain information to how many she has around. its part of the reason why she is so binary when it comes to melee vs. ranged matchups. melee champions have to risk getting hooked by her e or hit by her q every single time theyre trying to take out a tentacle. just standing still in front of the thing for two auto attacks instead of from behind your minions, means youre risking your life every single time trying to remove one of them. a problem that ranged champions dont have for the most part.

then you can maybe nerf the cooldown on her passive slightly to make removing the things more rewarding overall. maybe its possible to not allow her immediately place a tentacle in a spot where you just removed one and put a cooldown on the wall itself (with the exception of her ult).

instead of just hitting her with a nerf hammer and making her compete garbage against ranged champions to make her bearable for melee, just take the opportunity to make her a bit better against ranged champions and slightly less opressive against melee champions. just to even her out a little bit.