What do I do if hit by illaoi Test of Spirit

rtbf76109271·Aug 23, 2016·3 votes·3,088 views

Obviously it's best not to get hit by powerful skillshots, but what minimizes damage the best? I am almost always a ranged champion, if that matters

do I..

Attack her to reduce the timer?
Run away?
just eat it and wait it out as she attacks the thing?

12 Comments

Memeguel420Aug 23, 20162 votes

If the Illaoi is ahead, get away from the thing so you don't take damage she is either trying to get poke off or initiate a fight. Never fight illaoi if she pulls your spirit because thats already a disadvantage. You can punish her if she misses or if her e is off cooldown. If illaoi is behind try to cc her and poke her if she gets your soul.

MunchCrunchLunchAug 24, 20162 votes

you run away as fast as possible

her E has will and can chunk 80% of your health if your squishie. and chunk about 50-60% of your health i f your a bruiser/tank.

her E is ridiculous. most top laners are immobile. and its not easy to dodge her E.

believe it or not even if she misses it she still outduels nearly everyone just because of how much damage her tentacles do.

her base stats are higher than snoop dogg. shes really tanky and she can go for multiple ad items while being extremely tanky and sustainy.

Trap or a TrickAug 23, 20161 votes

here is what I do (I play a lot of squishies and adc)

Find a nice bush
recall
Grab some blach
Kys

Works every time :D Hooray for counter play

AstôlfoAug 23, 20161 votes

You'd just get hit by a tentacle during recalling then. lmao

AstôlfoAug 23, 20161 votes

#AS A LEVEL 7 ILLAOI MAIN

In laning: Well she'll be hitting it. She'll probably immediately hit it with the W to try to get the double tentacle hit so be wary of that. Stand outside of the tentacle hitboxes where the tentacles commanded by her W would hit and just unload your damage onto her, since she can't do anything. If she tries to double hit with Q, your range should be enough for you to easily sidestep it. If she tries to ult, you can just immediately back off.

Post-laning once she has a good bit of AD or in a teamfight: You probably can't drop the Spirit duration that long anymore since she will near instantly kill it at this point provided she either has her teammates or enough tentacles to hit it with. QSS clears the Test of Spirit debuff to extent of memory, I'd probably invest in that, or get your frontline tank who can bodyblock her E to invest in it. Otherwise, I'd try to immediately back off if you think/know her tentacles will do enough damage to threaten your teammates.

In a 1v1: Unless she has enough damage to instantly kill it, I'd just ranged harass her as much as possible. If not, I'd just immediately run the fuck away.

In general (in laning especially, while near turret): Don't immediately kill the tentacles unless Illaoi's W range is long enough to command them, for the love of god. Doing that will just spawn another. Leave it at 1 health and wait close to it. That prevents another from spawning (radius thing) and if she tries to use W, you can just kill it to stop it mid-animation if necessary.

PalPlaysAug 23, 20161 votes

Just run outside the range and juke the tentacles.

Attack her and she'll ult, you will die.
Running away means that you can juke the tentacles = the damage won't be guaranteed.
It's fairly safe, but then you'll have to deal with the debuff anyway.

xeviAug 23, 20161 votes

Here is what I do:

Mobile champ that can dodge her slams and is healthy Yasuo : Fight (I'll either zone her out or win the trade) Champ that simply outdamages and is healthy {{champion:122} : Same as above. Neither of the two: Run away (unless Illaoi super low, jungler going to gank me; etc.