Although i absolutely loathe laning against her, I love her mechanics, playstyle, and capabilties. I've got pretty good hands (where i am) on her as well, and I want to know when I should be picking her. I usually end up picking her into something less favorable because I'm still unfamiliar with her matchups. Help?
Succubús GF2 votesLiterally every non-mobile top laner gets destroyed by illaoi because she can keep smacking them around with the powers of hen--- ahem tentacles. In team comps you are going to pick her if your team needs a heavy engage because her ult provides a lot of utility
Lazypeon1002 votesShe works well for any comp with strong split pushing and also works well against teams that have to actually run at you for an engage. This is because of her strong zone control and the ability to counter an engage with massive damage. Down sides are any team with heavy CC, being played on teams where your team is supposed to engage, anything past like, 25 minute mark becomes a down hill struggle for her.
Laughing Fish1 votesNever. Never pick Illaoi. Please for the love of all that is holy, go someone less cancerous like Teemo or Yasuo. http://49.media.tumblr.com/6d1de8d8277069038f11719ad512a002/tumblr_ny5elqbDKp1uyuz3ro1_500.gif
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Never. Never pick Illaoi. Please for the love of all that is holy, go someone less cancerous like Teemo or Yasuo. http://49.media.tumblr.com/6d1de8d8277069038f11719ad512a002/tumblr_ny5elqbDKp1uyuz3ro1_500.gif
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Ralanr1 votesI'm not good at team comps, but I think an anti engage comp would work well with her.
AMADEUSdotEXE1 votesI'm not good at team comps, but I think an anti engage comp would work well with her.
Can someone explain what an anti engage comp is i dont have that much game knowledge tbh
DREADN0UGHT1 votesYou should never pick her into a kane bully like Rengar, Gnar or Darius.
You can deal some really good damage, but are subject to being kyted around so eazy.
Namulith1 votesI've been maining her in my climb through silver and gold this season and in norms right after she came out. I'll agree with what a lot of people are saying her and she definitely has a spot in counter-engage and anti-dive comps. Even when you're ahead turret dives on Illaoi can turn into ritual suicide incredibly quickly. Also kind if in line with Galio and Annie her Ult-Flash combo is incredibly powerful if you see the opportunity and can be used to initiate in certain situations, it kind of brings up the "scatter or die" response from the enemy team which can be great for getting a couple of picks or flashes and then brute forcing an objective with a numbers or cooldowns advantage. She's also good at running interference for a Drag or Baron play by zoning out choke points with tentacles and a threatening ult. Even if you ult and they back away that buys at least 8 seconds for your team to complete the objective and if they don't back off well you just ulted in the middle of their team. As far as individual lane matchups go Tryndamere and Nasus are your worst nightmares. Nasus because of his passive lifeteal and Q stacking off your tentacles makes him very hard to effectively push out of lane, he practically wants you to land E on him for more lasthits. After a certain point of the lane he's going to be too tanky in relation to you and the free Q stacks he picked up from your harass are going to kick and you're going to take a lot of damage, not to mention when you ult he can just wither you and walk away. Tryndamere just gets a free 6 seconds of life no matter how hard you burst him with your ult and if worst comes to worst for him he can just spin out, but usually if you trade ults you die and he lives anyways. Obviously skill is the biggest factor and if you can outplay whomever you're laning against then even if they're on Trynd or Nasus you're probably going to win lane, but just try to avoid Trynd and Nasus. A lot of people say that ranged champs like Quinn and Lulu hardcounter her but I have not had exceptional difficulty with either of them. Basically just play passive early, but once you hit 6 you can kind of turn the bullying around because they're going to take a lot more damage than you are and if they go for the kill your ulted W actually gives really solid chasing potential. The E is also incredibly important in ranged matchups, if you can land one you don't even have to kill it but you can three free tentacle hits and a grasp of the undying proc on it to very easily sustain through the lane. Most melee champions are a complete faceroll at least in gold/silver for a general lack of understanding of illaoi mechanics and other than that she just has a kit designed to bully. I've actually had like a 67% win rate climbing to gold 2 from silver 4 with her this season and that's with her as more than half of my total ranked games.
tl;dr She's decent against most comps aside from heavy kiting/poke, avoid laning against Nasus and Tryndamere.
lllusive Man1 votesillaoi main here you can pick illaoi into everything that is not tanky or have to engage you like maokai Riven !fiora! careful you get punished by ranged harras teemo cassio. you can deal with vlad if the enemy has an tham kench lee janna kings and queen of disengage they can either save targets or get you out of your ult zone where your tentacles are
Privileged Jew1 votesPick Illaoi into Nasus
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