Can we address Illaoi?

Before you ask the usual stuff about whether I just lost to an illaoi, yes I did. However, it's definitely not the first time. Illaoi's kit revolves around snowballing off the boosted animals unintelligent members of the enemy team who don't know how to play around her ult. I don't have a problem with Illaoi in general. I do, however, have a problem with a fed Illaoi. She can quite literally 1v5, and if you try to 1v1 her she has her e to chunk all your hp from an entire screen away. What counterplay is there to a team that doesn't know or care how Illaoi works? Sure I can dodge her e and all that stuff, but my teammates can't. Not to mention people always say to not go near her tentacles, but what if she's pushing your towers with 5 tentacles spawned close to her? What then?

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Ganging up on Illaoi > Illaoi ults, killing your entire team unless you have some form of reliable disengage. (not to mention her near 100% tenacity she always has)

Team disengages accordingly > Enemy team takes objectives on the other side of the map and Illaoi most likely escapes.

Trying to 1v1 Illaoi > She will wait until you're in range for E and chunk your healthbar with her other abilities unless you're a tank, in which case you wouldn't have enough damage to kill her anyway. Not to mention she can build full tank and still deal as much damage as a fed ADC.

You walk out of range of your soul > Okay, what did that accomplish? You didn't kill her and you probably took a good chunk of damage for your troubles.

You dodge her E > Great. Now you're dead anyway because Q + W + AA + W + Q oh great her E's up again and you're now either dead or 75% of the way there. Doesn't matter if you used any CC on her because of all the tenacity from Legend Tenacity + Unflinching . That's 30% from Legend Tenacity, 20% from Unflinching if she has both summoners down, another 30% from , and ANOTHER 30% from . That's over 100% tenacity in most fights. That means she LITERALLY CANNOT be CC'd. When she doesn't have the passive up, she will have 80% tenacity 100% of the time. That means a 1 second stun will last for 0.2 seconds.

You ignore Illaoi > Brilliant. Now she has taken at LEAST one inhibitor, and can still solo your entire team anyway so you can't even kill her then.

By the way, here are the main counter tips from lolcounter.com.

"When she uses her E to rip out your soul make sure to either stand apart from it (in order to stop her AOE hitting you multiple times) or else leave the tether range. Note that leaving tether range will still apply her tentacle spawner onto your champion!"

Still doesn't explain how to kill her.

"Illaoi has a hard time chasing people due to a lack of good gap-closers. Pick champions with high mobility or movementspeed. (this also helps avoiding tentacle attacks)"

Still doesn't explain how to kill her, only how to get away (noticing a trend)

"Avoid standing close to the tentacles she spawns as she is likely to use this chance to dunk you with her W and cause the tentacle(s) to hit you VERY hard and heal her slightly."

Addressed that earlier. She can set up in a location and you can't approach her at all.

"If she is hard focusing your soul, attack her while she's doing it as you can do more damage to her than she can to you focusing your soul."

Not true. She deals AoE damage with her tentacles and Q, and will damage you much faster due to her attacks hitting both you AND your soul.

"DO NOT recall unawared when you are cursed. A tentacle WILL find you, and WILL kill you. (Kill 3 tentacles to remove the curse)"

Anyone who has laned against an Illaoi already knows this, and it STILL doesn't explain how to kill her.

"When she rips out your soul with her E attacking her directly will shorten the duration that she can attack your soul and will thereby cut her damage to it by quite a bit. Then, when the duration runs out you will not get the debuff on you."

Sure. You're below half health now and she's at 75%. Considering she probably only spammed W on you and used no other abilities, she has her full combo off cooldown. Good luck!

By the way, people may compare a fed Illaoi to a fed Yi. However, you CAN shut down a fed Yi, no matter how fed he is, with hard CC. Hard CC does not WORK on Illaoi due to her tenacity and tankiness.

She provides too much. She's a tank, a splitpusher, a teamfighter, and a duelist all in one. She excels in all those categories, and you'd be hard pressed to find someone better (at least someone as good in as many categories as she is).

What do you guys think? Vote and comment down below to let me know.