Rioter responsible for Illaoi changes on PBE should get a rise

Zero Skill Tank·Jun 23, 2019·8 votes·7,614 views

She should be less insuferable in her best matchups while being less hopeless in her worst matchups - which is great, as she is probably the most feast-or-famine fighter ATM.

It also removes some interactions that made her completely dumb to play against players that knew how to abuse them (you can no longer just recall after you become the vessel, yay!, nor champions with aa-resets can kill tentacles before they get a chance to slam), and gives her a juicy 40% AP ratio on the slam for ~~trolling~~ off-meta builds in normals.

Oh and pingable cooldown on innate, so I can finally explain to my jungler why I don't spend my lvl 1 time afking near redbuff, noice.

The changes are definitely an over-all buff, which will undoubtedly make some people salty AF, but the truth is that the champion desperately needed a buff, so that's lovely too.

GJ Rito!

6 Comments

Tahminatrix Jun 23, 20193 votes

Champ needs a rework so she doesn't win / lose based on her opponent`s skill level and mobility.

Tentacles always target who she hits with w, usually making it so you always know to just move out of the way (even with you being mostly surrounded, there tends to usually be an obviously safe spot to run towards just from seeing where the tentacles are placed)

And you cant just outplay your opponent and w onto a minion instead of them in order to trick them and hit them with every tentacle by doing so, because you still lose damage that you would get from directly w`ing your opponent.

Atleast her e spirit is less masochistic to use, now you don't just cc yourself for 3 seconds as you pull the enemys spirit out only to lose it in less than 2 seconds just cause the enemy decided to engage on you while you were still ccing yourself in a stupid long animation.

Wild GeeseJun 24, 20191 votes

Does the passive do magic damage with the AP scaling? That would be great, Illaoi is really limited by physical damage, I find her really hard to play against tanks, she can't dent them for the most part, as well as CC easily interupting her W.

But I think the rework otherwise looks great.

0 HogapuJun 24, 20193 votes

Slam having an AP ratio doesn't make its damage magic Just like Trynda's E, has a 1 AP ratio but does physical damage ( item 3020 is thus worthless on him)

DC50AthleticsJun 24, 20191 votes

It's not Slam that gets the 60% AP scaling, it's the spawned tentacles from her passive. She's going to become a character upon which one builds one REALLY good AP item to keep her passive relevant late game, and pick up one early piece of one for an earlier boost.

Zero Skill TankJun 25, 20191 votes

Passive and Q damage proc are both called "Slam" (and they both get the same AP ratio).

Moody PJun 24, 20191 votes

Illaoi is one of the best champions you can pick to counter tank stacking, outside of ones with absolutely enormous health pools she demolishes them all