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Illaoi 6.11 buffs

metalgear18··1 votes·1,175 views

So right now, I am in Bronze 3 and I am climbing my way up. I picked up Illaoi because at 6.11, I saw that she got buffed and decided on getting her (instead of Vayne). Now, at the time I picked her up, I read guides on lolking and mobafire to play her and then proceeded to play about 7 games in normals to get use to her. 5 of those 7 I won. I decided to take her to Ranked matches.

**Now, the real reason I am making this post is that I want to know your thoughts on the new buffs that Illaoi got after playing her. **

I was in Bronze 4 when I got her and I have climbed up to Bronze 3. I noticed when I was playing her, she was really strong against many opponents (Except Volibear and Udyr). I basically have about 70% winrate (maybe even higher or a bit lower) with her in Bronze and I wanted to see if she is actually this strong outside of bronze. The mistakes I am seeing in bronze matches is that they can't dodge my E, so I just slam the spirit with my Q and any other tentacles I spawned nearby.This basically did loads of damage.The tentacle damage on Illaoi just shreds everyone. If they build armor, I build armor pen and a black cleaver and it still shreds.

So since I am winning a lot with her, I am starting to think the patch that she got has made her OP, but I am not exactly sure since I am in bronze and many mistakes are made.I am not sure of higher divisions are having Illaoi kill everything because when I play her, I seem to kill a lot in bronze.I just wanted to ask your thoughts and opinions

TL:DR Is Illaoi OP right now in divisions higher than bronze, or OP in bronze Illaoi

11 Comments

RcGjWO640w4 votes

I'd say Illaoi is a case-by-case champion. While I can't speak from personal experience, it seems like higher-tier players don't tend to have as much problems with her as the lower divisions (gold down). It's in these lower divisions that people fail to respect her teamfight presence and group up to take her down and end up pentadunked. She builds really tanky and has a disgusting amount of damage if you let her.

Since she lifesteals from everyone she hits with her tentacles, it makes her dueling against immobile champs or clumped up groups extremely powerful. People in lower divisions usually aren't good at dodging a lot of her damage sources, but she does seem to fall off in the higher tiers when ~70% of her damage can just be dodged and people in those tiers are good at predicting and evading skillshots.

In soloqueue, though, people love to clump up all the time, even in high tier play. It's the lack of rapid communication that makes for lackluster positioning, even in Diamond tier, meaning all a good Illaoi player has to do is wait for that opportunity and go for the dunk.

Much like Master Yi, any amount of team coordination against her shuts her down hard. Getting kited in teamfights, burst down or outright shut out in the early game makes Illaoi such a difficult pick. She either gets fed and roflstomps the whole game or doesn't and ends up as little more than a few extra hit points the team has to burn through before they get that "ACE!" notification.

I'd say play her if you're finding success with her in lower tier play. If it's helping you climb the elo latter, I'd say there's no shame in taking advantage of Bronze and Silver elo's weakness'. But there'll likely be a point where you stop stomping with her and you plateau. That's probably when you'll need to pick a more solid pick as the competition grows in power and skill.

metalgear181 votes

Thanks for the feedback. I like knowing my own weaknesses so I can try to avoid it from happening, and if it does happen, I would then attempt to make it have as little effect as possible in my game.I have seen higher ranked players talk about Illaoi not being this strong because I assume higher tier players are able to dodge better than people in bronze (It is kind of true, kept hitting people with my E). I do read guides on champions that are more recent so I can adjust my playstyle to the advantages. (I forgot what I was going to say)

But anyway, I will keep playing her and see how far I can get to the point where my tentacles just become predictable.

hOrnn1 votes

a champion with no hard crowd control that's not like master yi/trynd? nah, never going to be OP, but her ult is very strong in teamfights, I'm bronze and I beat one not long ago with aatrox toplane, check match history, and when I say beat, I mean I destroyed her.

I think the best buff would be when she, w's I think it is? it heals for every enemy champion hit, if it doesn't already that is.

personally when she first came out everybody cried OP, but honestly shes not that hard to lane vs and per passive is free gold for her laner.

the day league gets better items like dota has, is the day some of this wont matter, league really needs an item like heavens halberds active imo.

metalgear181 votes

Was the allied mid laner a Heimerdinger with a snowmerdinger skin, I played a game like that when I had my primary as top, but I lost it to an Aatrox that also went against an Illaoi. I am not sure if I played in the same game as you (Turns out it was just a different person).

Anyway, Her Ws don't actually heal her, but if there are tentacles nearby, those will slam too, which will heal her. If you hit your E, any nearby tentacles will slam on the spirit, which also heals her.

hOrnn1 votes

yeah wasent me, also that's what I meant, the heal should be for all champions hit if it is not.

shes quite tanky, and like I said her ult is amazing in teamfights, but I feel her lane is kinda weak myself.

hh the thinker1 votes

i never see her at my rank. i would say she got a buff since she was actually a bit weak vs people who know how to play vs her at an ok level. it's not to say she can't work higher than bronze, but she's not op like you may think. people start to make less mistakes the higher you get so it will get a bit harder to snowball and use that lead and such.

if you like her though, keep playing her.

metalgear181 votes

I do like playing her, I compare her to a blitzcrank because pulling spirits can have a similar effect to just pulling them to your team to kill. I was just concerned because out of the 13 games I played with her in ranked, I won 10 times, with me being on a 6 win streak right now. I did play about 6 or 7 matches in normal to get use to her.

hh the thinker1 votes

she's fine. her biggest problem would be not being able to just tp or run into a fight. she kind of has to set up a bit first. means you have a bit less map pressure than someone who can just tp and be useful right away. since you are doing well with her, i would say keep playing her and see how far you get.

SlaktarTasken1 votes

She's sitting around 50% in plat+, given her somewhat straightforward kit but fairly inexperienced playerbase, she's probably between balanced and simply just good in competent hands (tier 2). Competent counterplayers will probably still dominate her if they get pick advantage, she will probably dominate as a counterpick, as lanes go, skill matchups as always will favor whoever is more skilled, as should be.

Her teamfighting pontential varies from non-existent to super high, she can definately dunk targets really hard, I mean Darious hard, and that's with AOE, but her crowd controlling is limited and thus she's very reliant on strategic/positioning sense rather than raw mechanics, which is pretty comparable to just about any juggernaut in the game.

I think she's in a good spot. Will we be seeing her in LCS? Probably not, but we never see Voli either in LCS and he's been a top winrate contender for quite some time (jungle winrates, top winrates aren't doing that hot).

She's also at 55%+ winrate for very experiened players (125games+) so you can definately climb high with her if you main her, like most other champs, as should be.

BlackRainX1 votes

retarded champ early-mid game. almost one shots the lane caster minions and tanky as hell.... such a stupid class

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