My thoughts on Illaoi after playing for about a couple of hours+

Okay, so I instantly bought because I loved her design, loved her kit, wanted to play her immediately so I did and here are my thoughts. Also, I'm sorry if my thoughts aren't detailed or well thought out. I'm not good with these type of things! >_<! My apologies!

Let me start with the good things about her.

• She's a strong and muscular female.
• Her kit classifies her as a juggernaut
• She's fun to use. Okay that's the subjective (kind of) stuff. Now to the main stuff.
• She requires some knowledge and awareness in order for her to use her abilities correctly. In other words, you can still die if your tentacles aren't with you.
• Her tentacles are easily telegraphed and can be killed. I played against her as I was playing her and I handled it with ease. You can clearly see where the tentacles are going to hit and so you can just dodge, slap it twice, that's free gold.
• Her Q is also pretty easy to dodge. Just like the above, telegraphed.
• Her W is really good for a simple gap closer. Not too big of a range, it's fine.

Now here are my issues with her.

• The heal from the tentacles are kinda too high for how hard they hit. I was probably facing non-experienced players but I could pretty much 1 v 5 the team. Of course, they would have had to literally stand still, where my tentacles are raping them, and not do anything about it. Not sure if this could fix it but I feel like the heal should have a cap or like only a certain number of tentacles should heal you.
• Her E should absolutely NOT last that long. Like I was over here dying of laughter at the fact that I got a kill when I b'd on the person that I had forgot I even cursed LOL. Seriously, that duration should be toned down.
• With her ult, her tentacles are untargetable...... Riot, did you not learn from Fizz? Untargetable is cancerous. Come on now. That combined with her heal is pure 1 v 5 territory. Enemy team tries to squad up, you jump in the middle with... idk, flash because you're trying to save your W? That's 5 tentacles. You W one %%%%%. The tentacles hits like 2 while the other hits like 2 more, you're still healing. Used your Q, you get healed. W agai- fuck it, pentakill.

Bottom line, I love her design, love her kit, but my lord man LOL. I normally play ranked but since the season kinda ended and my friends got the game, I decided to play normals from now on (because fuck smurf accounts). Like %%%%%, I got a pentakill because of the last point I made.

TL;DR She's fun to use. But Riot, please nerf her heal and consider removing the untargetability of the tentacles when she uses her ult. I think the damage of her tentacles should be toned down as well. Other than that, the champion is great. She has a huge problem with CC and kiting so it's not like she's impossible to beat. Once again guys, my apologies for not having a well composed response. This is like my first time elaborating my thoughts about a champion. Everyone take it easy, and have a wonderful thanksgiving!