Revisions to the Kraken Priestess -- your thoughts?

K11·12/9/2015, 9:55:57 PM·1 votes·242 views

I think her kit is just incredibly powerful as a whole. She does too much damage for being as tanky as she is. My thoughts on fixing her would be to

a) make her more squishy b) lower her damage output c) fine tune the amount of healing she gets from tentacle hits.

Ideally, it would be a mix of all three of the above. Don't break her and make her absolutely useless, but a slight nerf is necessary imo.

At the moment, as many people before have mentioned, I find her to be much like darius or garen right after their reworks. You're afraid to go in on them because of their strength but doing nothing and playing very passive will grant her complete and utter control of the lane and you'll fall behind very quickly, which is definitely not what you want either.

I saw someone before me mention that she has no escape mechanisms. This is true, she's slow with no abilities to help her get away. But in my experience, Illaoi's who have at least one item and the components for a second actually don't really feel the need to run, especially with the ultimate up. When you get ganked, try to run. But if you can't, ultimate and focus the more threatening attacker. The heals from your tentacles and your damage will either kill both of them, or at least thwart the gank and save you. Essentially, you've used your damage as your escape and the tentacles' heal is so potent that you are unlikely to die. And your ult spawns more tentacles for the number of enemies around, so you won't be fighting 3 enemies with only a single tentacle to help you.

Of course I'm not LCS material. I'm by no means a god at this game and complaining my ass off about everything that doesn't go my way. But this to me seems slightly...skewed. Your thoughts and opinions are both welcome and encouraged! [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

1 Comments

Nagoh Shan12/9/2015, 10:14:00 PM1 votes

She's a zone control champ. The number one mistake I see people make when fighting her is standing in her zone. There was a Fiora I was laneing against that thought she was going to all in at level six, ults dashes in, eats an e, and my two passive tentacles that were up and two tentacles from my ult just delete her.

People who don't respect her zone Die, and people who do, end up wasting her strong points and creating moments of opportunity. Kiting out Illaoi's ult, and destroying her tentacles are two things people who get smashed by Illaoi don't do.