So whats the counterplay to test of spirit?

Nidken·Nov 30, 2015·2 votes·948 views

Just wondering

17 Comments

Meep ManNov 30, 20153 votes

You can dodge it. Once you get hit, you can get out of spirit range and then DODGE the tentacles.

DODGE!

Phoenix Kotori Nov 30, 20151 votes

So if you're melee just run away & never fight her?

Sounds fair.

EcchiOtakuTMNov 30, 20151 votes

or you move while attacking so her skillshots don't hit you......

Meep ManNov 30, 20151 votes

You can bait it out of her instead of running right into her face.

Phoenix Kotori Nov 30, 20151 votes

The reward is way too strong for it regardless.

Meep ManNov 30, 20151 votes

Its only as punishing as a Blitzcrank pull, less in a solo lane environment. The only thing I disagree with Illaoi's E is the low mana cost, but that doesn't have much to do with counterplay.

Not to mention you can just stand behind minions and then it can't touch you.

The reward is way too strong for it regardless.

This is also straying from the question of counterplay. It may be high reward, but that isn't exactly counterplay, which is more "How do I play against this spell" rather than "How easily does this spell interact with me and how much."

Critmaster GarenNov 30, 20151 votes

dodge the skillshot. walk out of range and kill 3 tentacles or just avoid them. fight her, but dont line up for her to hit you and the spirit simultaneously.

or use this item 3140

Aeolian MelodiesNov 30, 20151 votes

Try to kill the 3 fucking mandatory tentacles and yell at your team who keeps sniping them under your nose.

JbelsNov 30, 20151 votes

Test of spirit isn't broken or anything, it's just annoying. It's like taxes, every once in a while you gotta deal with the spoopy tentacles

Lil Lewd WitchNov 30, 20151 votes

Its pretty easy to guess and dodge the tentacles after getting picked. Dodge, kill, move along.

Now as for her ultimate... Holy crap.

AbyssphereNov 30, 20151 votes

Dodge it. Dodge the follow up tentacles. Kill the follow up tentacles. Stop Illaoi killing your spirit without just walking out of range. Etc.

There's tons of counterplay to it that's incredibly visible. How bad do you have to be to think there's none?

Quantum LotusNov 30, 20151 votes

hahaha it is the slowest linear skillshot in the game. If you cant dodge it, fight her and dodge her tentacles. she is weak without the tentacle damage.

Just imagine if her tentacles knocked up whenever they hit something xD

Phoenix Kotori Nov 30, 20151 votes

Skill shot speed doesn't matter in melee range.

Quantum LotusNov 30, 20151 votes

True but that's why I play ranged against her usually. Plus its harder to dodge skillshots in lane with this new minion block bullshit.

Meep ManNov 30, 20151 votes

Even if you are melee, just playing it passive and avoiding her by standing behind minions and then farming is never a bad thing for you since farm is farm.

KazaashiNov 30, 20151 votes

If she grabs you and you can't win the trade, (you usually can't), just move out of the range and wait for the first tentacle to spawn, then don't move until it starts its attack animation. Now walk right or left in a perpendicular fashion and BOOM, 0 dmg. Do that 3 times and you are golden.

Pro Tip: If you are cursed and she pulls your spirit again, you just have to kill the requisite number of tenticles to end the first curse, they don't stack or reset the tentacle kill stack.