What Happened to Illaoi?

genya03··1 votes·1,113 views

Barely anyone in Gold and below are playing her right now. I know after the release she was being played a lot, but what's wrong with her now? Someone tell me. I think she has a great AD damage output and can team fight really well. I mean, she can team fight good as fuck. Somebody tell me why she isn't played often.

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ModWulf Helhammer5 votes

People figured out how to play against her and the OP cries stopped

genya031 votes

[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Best Valor NA4 votes

People learned how to dodge slow abilities

genya032 votes

I don't think that's the real reason why people stopped playing her.

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:b

genya032 votes

[zombie-brand-facepalm]

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t(^.^t)

(^ it's flipping you off) :b

genya032 votes

[zombie-brand-mindblown]

Wolfbanez122 votes

everyone under gold cant teamfight

genya031 votes

I agree. Most Gold and lower Elo' can barely perform a good team fight.

Danny DeVito2 votes

I have a 70% win rate with her and climbed from bronze 1 to gold 4 with her lol

genya031 votes

[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

redniwediS2 votes

Nothing is wrong with her, there are just easier options right now.

genya031 votes

Like who?

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Fiora Nautilus Garen Darius DrMundo Sion

genya031 votes

Where's Taric? Not enough gems?

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no ._.

genya031 votes

[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Dominick Destine2 votes

Illaoi is a stat check champ. Nothing more.

genya031 votes

Explain more, in details.

Billy VoHagen1 votes

{quoted} she can team fight good as fuck.

Kek, nice troll.

genya031 votes

She is good in team fight.

Billy VoHagen1 votes

Only against people who are bad. If you are doing well as Illaoi, it is not because you are good, but because the enemy is fucking up.

genya031 votes

[zombie-brand-mindblown]

YCitizenSnipsY1 votes

Everyone wanted a buff female champion. Which meant she had to be a juggernaut. Juggernauts were a failure as a class, who were only every popular when they were broken, and very unpopular ever since. They didn't want to release another broken juggernaut, so now you have a useless champion who wont be good unless broken like the other juggernauts were.

genya031 votes

She must be broken to be a good champ? Doesn't sound reasonable...

YCitizenSnipsY1 votes

Notice how no juggernauts have been considered good since the juggernaut patch(5.18) when they all came out broken. Skarner and Morde are non existent after their short time in the light when they were strong. Garen is just as average as ever, and Darius is the only one who is kind of played.

Basically 3/4 of the juggernauts had to be legit broken to be considered good picks, Illaoi is no different.

genya031 votes

I would agree. They were broken during that patch, but why would Riot let them be unable to be played? I barely seeDarius Garen nowadays.

Critmaster Garen1 votes

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I would agree. They were broken during that patch, but why would Riot let them be unable to be played? I barely seeDarius Garen nowadays.

some of them were overnerfed. otherwise there is a fuckton of cc in the game right now, in addition to overtuned marksmen (top lane graves, quinn being the worst), disengage supports like janna, lulu, nami increasing in play rate.

its just all around not a good time for them.

as far as illaoi goes, the addition of tentacle assists kindof rekt her. shes too squishy and too easily countered in teamfights.

riot doesnt stop nerfing them indirectly aswell. they lost 400 hp alone from mastery changes, and item nerfs since the start of the season (meaning 100 less shield strength on steraks on top of that) with no compensation. and theyre champions that are geared around health stacking.

genya031 votes

Hm... Only if Illaoi would be looked over. I don't think she was nerfed at all. Never read a patch note about her.

Critmaster Garen1 votes

{quoted}

Hm... Only if Illaoi would be looked over. I don't think she was nerfed at all. Never read a patch note about her.

she got some minor mana buffs recently, but in the same patch they added tentacle assists. id say this ended up more as a nerf overall than as a buff, since it made it so much easier to cleanse the vessel state.

ViashinoWizard1 votes

Because if she's really bad against anyone with half a brain.

genya031 votes

[zombie-brand-facepalm]

Delphinium1 votes

I only saw her once in a high plat/low diam ranked game and a couple in aram.

genya031 votes

Once? I don't see her in Gold or lower Elo's, at all!

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