I, personally, do not believe that Illaoi is OP.

YoungFarmer·Dec 9, 2015·9 votes·1,167 views

She has a 43% winrate in diamond+.

Here are the couple ways I have learned to counter her.

she is a HUGE lane bully (obviously). don't fight her when her tentacles are there.
DO NOT keep fighting her when she ults (unless you are fed) she gets an insane buff from her ultimate. legit if your whole team runs from her ultimate she wastes it and does no damage. If your whole team tanks it 9 times out of 10 she wins the fight.
build executioners culling it rapes her sustain.

23 Comments

1st MovementDec 9, 20154 votes

It's like a mini game easy to dodge once your actually decent plat <

SeargentAnusDec 9, 20151 votes

She's like Heimer/Nasus. You either know what to do and win, or get shit on.

AL000Dec 9, 20151 votes

no nasus and hec are dps with empower... illaoi is ad caster...

SwapShadowsDec 9, 20154 votes

let's ignore her strength and discuss how anti-fun it is to play against her first.

YoungFarmerDec 9, 20151 votes

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let's ignore her strength and discuss how anti-fun it is to play against her first.

She's a lane bully of course she isn't fun to play against lol, it isn't fun to play against heimerdinger, yorick, or brand either

Specter027Dec 9, 20152 votes

Yea. She's no fun to play against. I hate these mini-game champs. Riot claims they want more of a PvP focus and proposes minion changes, then they create a champ whose identity seems to be not fighting champ vs champ, but on how well you manage getting your soul stolen and how well you dodge the tentacles. She feels low-interaction to play against.

TehNACHODec 9, 20153 votes

Early investments in Grievous Wounds and enough movement speed to easily dodge her tentacles leads to a near useless Illaoi.

SquidblimpDec 9, 20151 votes

I rush Frozen Mallet or Iceborn Gauntlet on her. Where is your god now? :D

FacerollKatarinaDec 9, 20152 votes

I thought she wasn't that bad until today, when she did 3/4 of my health in one attack at like 15 mins Now shes on my hitlist

Slamurai JackDec 9, 20152 votes

It's actually even lower, around 40% in Diamond. She's bad. She has way too much counterplay for what she does and doesn't have enough utility to actually make plays.

YoungFarmerDec 9, 20151 votes

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It's actually even lower, around 40% in Diamond. She's bad. She has way too much counterplay for what she does and doesn't have enough utility to actually make plays.

People down vote me even though you are right.

runedaraDec 9, 20151 votes

Tynd counters her pretty well can't burst him down.

SquidblimpDec 9, 20151 votes

Agreed. I wrote a post about her a couple days ago about how you can see her position in the fog of war by seeing if her tentacles are active, but that's besides the point. Anyway, I'll list some more counterplay:

Kite her. She has no CC and a VERY short gapcloser. If you kite her out of her tentacles, she does very little damage unless super fed.
Don't fight her when she ults. Wait 8 seconds for it to end. It's not like she can chase you super easily anyway, unless you're right on her. Think Tryndamere, when he ults you run away, but at least he has a slow. Illaoi just walks.
Poke her. She can't do anything about it.
Hide behind minions in lane. Her pull cannot go through minions, and if she can't pull you, she loses almost all of her lane dominance.
If she pulls you, attack her. Make sure you kill her tentacles first. Make sure doesn't hit you AND your spirit. Don't line up so she HAS to choose which to attack. If she ults, immediately back off again. Simple.
Use champs with DoTs and Multi-Hit abilities to attack Illaoi when she pulls someone, as each tick reduces the duration of the spirit, making the spirit last about 2 seconds.
CC her during her ultimate. Her ultimate is USELESS if she can't use W during it.
Please don't clump up around her, ever. That's like clumping up around Gnar when he's Mega and has his ult up.

dEAdbUsDec 9, 20151 votes

Illaoi has so bad design: no mobility, no escapes, no engages, no cc, no disengaged, high damage, annoying to lane against, and useless after laning phase. She needs QoL buffs and damage nerfs.

YoungFarmerDec 9, 20151 votes

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Illaoi has so bad design: no mobility, no escapes, no engages, no cc, no disengaged, high damage, annoying to lane against, and useless after laning phase. She needs QoL buffs and damage nerfs.

she has CC.

dEAdbUsDec 10, 20151 votes

Slow from w if you're move too far from spirit? So it's good cc for you? Same as blitz hook + knock up + silence, or same as malph ult+slow from q + slow from e, or same as endless irelia stun?

YoungFarmerDec 10, 20151 votes

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Slow from w if you're move too far from spirit? So it's good cc for you? Same as blitz hook + knock up + silence, or same as malph ult+slow from q + slow from e, or same as endless irelia stun?

I like it, mixed with dead mans plate its plenty of cc for me.

NOVAKzaDec 9, 20151 votes

She has a 43% win rate if they have 1-5 wins. At above 15 wins, her winrate spikes to over 75%.

You can go ahead and say "lee sin isn't worth playing, his win rate is 45% on free week" or something like that, but that doesn't mean anything. Win rates are not correlative to anything.

ParoeDec 9, 20151 votes

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She has a 43% win rate if they have 1-5 wins. At above 15 wins, her winrate spikes to over 75%.

You can go ahead and say "lee sin isn't worth playing, his win rate is 45% on free week" or something like that, but that doesn't mean anything. Win rates are not correlative to anything.

cough Isnt everyones win rate high the first week or two?

EcchiOtakuTMDec 9, 20151 votes

She's weak, even easier to deal with now that pathing is fixed, she needs a rework. She's just a shaco, a god if the enemy team is dumb and makes every mistake in the book, but once understood her flaws and easy counterplay is too apparent.

And she falls off even sooner when executioner is bought.

YoungFarmerDec 9, 20151 votes

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She has a 43% win rate if they have 1-5 wins. At above 15 wins, her winrate spikes to over 75%.

You can go ahead and say "lee sin isn't worth playing, his win rate is 45% on free week" or something like that, but that doesn't mean anything. Win rates are not correlative to anything.

where are you getting these statistics?

AL000Dec 9, 20151 votes

free farm for her... thats wrong... you suppose to safe her by safe way... or not play top then...
of course... but its not easy to escape if no flash avaialble... hard cc or high mobility is good way to groof around...
what... what? simply dont let tenacle touch you so she wont be healing...

1st MovementDec 9, 20151 votes

Just stand behind minions so she can't take your soul and move a lot basically worked for me