How do you beat Illaoi

Patakus·7/13/2016, 10:54:47 AM·1 votes·954 views

I played 2 games in a row against Illaoi and in both games she just stomped me over and over. One time the jungler and mid came to help me and she got a triple kill. TRIPLE KILL. Is it just me or is that champ broken af? She built only 1 Black Cleaver and was able to take so much damage and dish out even more damage. I played as Jhin so when I say she did damage, I mean she did DAMAGE. If I was far away from her she'd poke me with the slamdunk move (dont know the names), if I got close she'd puul out my soul and beat the shit out of it and being Jhin I couldnt escape. Leona was my supp and even together we couldn't do shit to her. I genuinely think she's broken. And I don't mean broken as the people who say Jhin or Teemo is broken mean, but I takes 3-5 guys to take her down and even then she'll take 2 or 3 guys with her. How do you play against that?

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Itadaki Seieki7/13/2016, 10:58:54 AM2 votes

Whenever she ISN'T around tentacles, focus them first and foremost. When you're E'd, simply wait for the tentacle to spawn and immediately begin walking to the left or right of it. Playing against her is as she says " Always in motion. " You have to be constantly moving in order to dodge her abilities. If she gets ahead, wait until late game. She's not good at teamfighting if your team can kite her. She's ALL about zone control. She creates a zone top lane, her passive reenforces her zone and she makes it hard for you to break out of it.

gr8artist7/13/2016, 11:41:12 AM2 votes

I play Illaoi quite a bit. Best counter I've met is a good pair of boots. The windup on tentacles is slow, and they've now fixed the indicator so you have a better idea where they're going to land. Dodge them. Her best combo is E (the tentacle grab) followed by R (AOE slam) when you get close to her, ESPECIALLY if she is already near a tentacle. Her ult spawns 1 additional tentacle behind each opponent (or grabbed spirit) caught in its radius. So if she's already near a tentacle, and she grabs you as you and a buddy walk into her bush and get ulted, it's now the 2 of you vs her and 4 tentacles. Tentacles have absurdly high AD ratios, and their damage doesn't diminish if you're hit by more than one simultaneously. If she W's (her leaping strike) a squishy target that's surrounded by 4 tentacles, they're going to take something like 600-700% of her total AD. Boom. Dead. Oh, and if something damages both you and your gibbed spirit, you're going to take the extra damage as well. So if there's a grabbed spirit caught in that mess, that's an additional 300-500% AD.

Don't go near the tentacles and you'll live. Their slam range is less than your AA range, just poke them. She's brutal, but easily countered.

CerealBoxOfDoom7/13/2016, 11:10:49 AM1 votes

when you see tentacles move around

when you don't just work on destroying her nexus