Recent Illaoi changes

JavelinJoe·Jul 27, 2016·3 votes·378 views

The tentacle change was a much needed change. But I fear that now they are too hard for Illaoi to keep up.. Enemies can walk up and 2 shot a tentacle from the middle of the lane (if ranged). Part of the reason Illaoi could hold a lane was because of the damage she could output with them being semi hidden. While I am not against this change, maybe if the tentacles could auto slam a few times, or have a shorter spawn cd it could rebalance out. Because an Illaoi without her tentacles has minimal damage output if/when engaged on, especially pre 6.

5 Comments

RevaliJul 27, 20161 votes

even if the champ is ranged, your don't usually have minions infront of them, they auto tentacles, grab them with e,

play her like you would zyra, no seeds(tentacles) no damage.

them being hidden was just cheesy damage if you managed to make them a vessel, its gotten me a kill a few times before, imo the only thing I want changed on her is how dots effect vessel duration, should be halved.

TTK DreadnoughtJul 27, 20161 votes

I'm perfectly fine with the change. It hasn't really changed how I played at all or minimally

JavelinJoeJul 27, 20161 votes

I agree that the change was needed. But I wondered if she could get some of the lost damage moved somewhere more appropriate.

TTK DreadnoughtJul 27, 20161 votes

I dont believe there's any actual loss damage. She's fine as is.

Critmaster GarenJul 27, 20161 votes

i think instead of making the tentacles outright visible and attackable, they should have given them the red shadow from oracles elixir, that reveals units in bushes, while youre not in a bush yourself, but doesnt make them outright targetable.

another possibility would have been to show the tentacles like normal sitting in a bush, but still have them untargetable from outside without vision into the bush.

riots reasoning was, that illaois opponents would be able to better track if she has tentacles hidden around to assert her current strength.

imo completely revealing them to the point that you can just attack them was not necessary for that purpose.