How to beat Illaoi -- for all you whiners out there.
So, I see a lot of people whining and complaining about how "broken" Illaoi is, and "how drastically she needs nerfs..." when that's not the case at all. In fact, when against a ranged champ, she's absolutely useless, and is pathetic. She is only strong against melee and moronic ranged champs, to begin with. Second, she is VERY EASILY countered, and it doesn't even require any items more than a brain (which, you know, everyone has by default).
So, I'm goinna copy a reply of mine from a thread that's vanished, and put it in my own thread so that everyone can see how to beat the "unbeatable" Illaoi -- with an added bonus of advanced tactics against her abilities that wasn't in my other post.
You know, Illaoi even tells you (in her VO) how to beat her: "MOVE!"
Seriously. The people in this game cry SO MUCH about everything. Literally every single ability of Illaoi's can be dodged or avoided by, you guessed it, moving!
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Q: She uses Q? Side step. It has a VERY readable animation, and even shows you where it'll do damage. So, like, move! (She even tells you to move as she uses it sometimes)
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W: She hit you with W? You let her get too close. (Seriously, it gives her an AA range of Tahm for ONE ATTACK, so why not try moving?)
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E: You got hit by E? Sidestep more, and keep minions between you (Gee, like, you know, every champion with a hook). Or, in other words, move!
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R: You got hit by her R? Why'd you get that close to her? If you just MOVE, you don't get hit by her!
(Below are some advanced tips on her abilities)
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Q: Nothing special.
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W: So even if she does hit you, the damage she does herself is pretty low -- it's the tentacle slap that makes her W dangerous. So if she hits you, move out of the tentacle that's about to hit you, and wow, you take half damage.
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E: When she grabs you, hitting her lowers the amount of time she has to kill your soul. So, instead of running, beat the snot out of her! She'll either keep trying to kill your soul (lowering the damage you take), switch to you and lose her E's effect, or be forced to run away or die. You also DO NOT need to wait for tentacles to spawn to eliminate the curse -- any tentacles on walls will do the job, but they'll try to smack you when you walk close, so be careful -- Along the same lines, if you kill her (or get an assist on her), the curse ends.
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R: So if you did get hit, wanna know what to do? Run out of the tentacle hell she just spawned, and wait it out. Don't sit in the middle of all them so that you can be smacked repeatedly by her W + tentacles.
Against a somewhat intelligent person, Illaoi has a VERY rough time. Against people who have no clue and don't want to try, but instead cry to Riot for nerfs, she does amazing. She has zero mobility, zero CC (outside of a slow that's VERY situational), zero gap closers, nothing. She has to literally walk up to you to do anything. So, if you MOVE, you never take damage from her. Hard concept, I know.
Treat her tentacles like Heimer turrets: Clear them if you can, avoid them if not. Half of Illaoi's damage comes from her tentacles smacking you, and all of her sustain depends on a tentacle hitting a champion -- if her tentacles don't hit you, guess what? You take much less damage, and she doesn't heal herself. Her tentacles also DO NOT swing at you unless you're a vessel, so there's no risk involved in autoing one down that she can't protect.
Also, for some reason, armor is stupidly effective against Illaoi. If you build one armor item, or play a champ with natural tankiness, then she does so little damage to you it's not even funny. Even her tentacles will only do ~100 damage if you build ~50 armor early game. So, she's pretty easy to counterbuild too.
So, please, just shut up and actually try putting in some effort and thinking for a change -- you might just beat Illaoi then.
TL;DR: How to counter Illaoi (and she even tells you in her VO): MOVE!
Edit: By the way, did I mention to move?
So, there's what I wrote earlier. Did you see the common thread in there? You can beat Illaoi, quite simply, by moving. This even fits her thematics, since she's trying to teach you how to properly live life -- a life in motion. If you keep moving, and keep track of what's going on, you win against Illaoi. Seriously, if you're a kite-y champ that keeps moving, she can do absolutely nothing against you.
But, you know, so broken. Much OP. Needs nerfs. She makes you think and ACTUALLY counterplay a champ, instead of just buying armor / MR and facerolling to victory -- that is NOT ALLOWED in League of Clickers.
Again, how to counter Illaoi: MOVE!
apparently. I have a champ pool of 50. 30 i play regularly. all types, all lanes. there isn't a single one that efficient at mass murder.
are you real) while playing her support for no reason when she's a high scaling juggernaut with low CC