[Illaoi QoL] Visual range indicator for Tentacles

Teybeo·4/17/2016, 11:41:01 AM·4 votes·1,137 views

How about a simple QoL change:

  • Tentacles now have a visual range indicator

http://i.imgur.com/pTexcQ2.jpg

I reached mastery rank 5 with Illaoi and I still regularly miss my W + Tentacle smash "combo". To land the combo, you have to answer 2 questions :

  1. Can/Should I cast W on this unit in the current situation ?

  2. Is this unit in the range of this tentacle ? And from this other tentacle ? And this third one ?

The first question can obviously be answered with personal skill and there's no problem here. To answer the second question, you need others specific skills in order to visually memorize the tentacle range and re-project it from every tentacles currently around you to the unit you're considering. Keep doing this with the 3 new tentacles your ult just spawned and the 2 second cooldown of your W while focusing on the teamfight and staying alive.

AFAICT these kinds of skills are more considered "fighting against the game" than "fighting against an opponent" and are necessary due to a lack of "clarity".

Finally, the functionality seems to already exists in the game in the form of Heimerdinger's turrets: http://i.imgur.com/GL3mQdP.jpg

//TODO: Add discussion about the range indicator visibility from the opponent. (Heimer's turrets don't, why ?)

1 Comments

Over Innsmouth4/17/2016, 4:07:05 PM2 votes

I'm with you on this. Have an upvote.