Int Sion giving you a headache? Pick up Illaoi

Moody P··1 votes·1,557 views

Possibly the single best counter to this annoying Sion strat, and a great counter to Sion metas in general (not an Illaoi shill btw)

  • Great waveclear and pushing, you can easily freeze Sion's early shoves and you outpush him after you level Q or get enough AD.
  • Sion's inting doesn't stop your income flow since you're a prime Klepto user AND killing his spirit gives you 25 gold (on top of getting gold from all those free Klepto pops); get tons and tons of money while he drops his K/D as much as he wants
  • Snowball like a beast; Illaoi when fed is unstoppable for the next 20 minutes when played properly, and int Sion will make sure you get fed.
  • You can't take a tower as fast as Demolish Sion, but instead of being a virgin suicide for tower when you get ganked, you get to be Chad 1v3 when you get collapsed on
  • People_ hate_ Illaoi so you get to rake all-chat salt when you pop off; salt flow doubled if below Plat, tripled if opponent is D5 stuck

You should absolutely learn Illaoi in-depth to counter the current tank top stuff. You'll never look back.

item 3071 item 3036 will crush this tank menace without breaking a sweat.

9 Comments

Slythion1 votes

I imagine Fiora would be a good pick too, if not early at least once you get Tiamat. You can also take Klepto on her as well

Need Gold 4 Tent1 votes

Any lategame hypercarry who can split against him will work. A Tryndamere/Jax/Yi will just kill him and take his turret even faster than he can respawn, if he feeds them enough. They pretty much only take about 2 items to pop off, and when they're full build, no tank can tank against them, especially a sion building mostly hp only (titanic/sterak's rush). Heck, they'll probably just dive him when conqueror's up.

Moody P1 votes

the difference is these guys will usually lose lane to a good Sion

Illaoi can farm from distance (and can also farm him for gold with klepto and E) and will straight beat him from about level 5 onward

Blyted1 votes

Some int Sion players don't actually do much inting until they have broken into your base. Good luck discouraging the Sion that just chips away at your tower then ults away just to come back and do it over and over again.

Moody P1 votes

good luck touching illaoi towers

Blyted1 votes

I would probably pick Darius into int Sion because he shuts down a lot of what makes the pick effective in the first place. He can push the wave, he can interrupt Sion Q, and he kills him so fast if allowed to stack his passive.

Asamas1 votes

Car sailsman slaps top of Illaoi

"This girl can eat so many Sions"

5050BS1 votes

Yep I see Sion and I lock in Illaoi if I can.

item 3057 >item 3512 = I just won lane

Zeppelins circus1 votes

Just one thing about the int sion strat.

WHY IS NOBODY BUYING MAJAIS.

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