Something you need to know about illaoi
I have played illaoi for about 20 matches now and want to share some thought about her (about how to tweak this champ). -This champ has a lore with 360 paragraphs, 500 pages which is insane. what's more insane is that some people actually read them
-First time playing her, you need to spend half of the game reading all texts describing her spells
-killing tentacles yield 5g (Susan love farming tentacles, Susan is the nightmare for illaoi)
-her Q hidden passive increases her tentacles damage (http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Illaoi)
-Maxing Q first makes her very mana hungry at laning phase but is a viable option
-W animation mechanically affects the gameplay against illaoi. The problem is the animation is too slow, the opponent can disrupt her mid-air and bring her w in cd, doing no dmg, especially tested with things like riven 3rd Q. And can be dodged by flash completely which is weird coz it is an AA. I would say pretty buggy atm and made her dmg unreliable against certain champion (Riven, Renekton and anyone with knock up).
-The hitbox of her E makes it more likely to land on minions
-if the spirit pulled into tentacles range, all tentacles in range will hit it.
-If E hit and pull the spirit out, the spirit counts as a champion for illaoi spells (i.e. it will heal u if tentacles hit and ult will spawn one more tentacle)
-E currently OP against Tahm Kench as the grey health area counts as current health. I.e. for a TK with 10% current health 90% grey health, you can pull a spirit with 100% health bar, so you can kill TK by killing the spirit.
-the dmg amplification on E is insanely high. Rank 5 provide extra 45% base dmg +8% per100AD when hitting both the host and the spirit.
-If get hitted by E when playing against illaoi, the best thing to do is run and become a vessel unless u r tanky enough to stay the full duration of it. And DO Not run toward illaoi as u give her the chance to hit both of u and ur spirit.
-becoming a vessel is actually not a problem for most champion as it is easy to dodge the tentacles. You just have to suffer the blurred vision for 3 tentacles spawn.
-ult makes this game a tentacles porn
-ulting a vessel or a spirit grant u a free tentacles hit on them
-All of her damage rely heavily on the number of tentacles surrounding the enemies
-illaoi offers no Teamfighting CC (Huge weakness in this meta)
Things that I want to change: faster w animation (dun jump too high), allow one tentacles always follow illaoi as she is useless without them. nerf the dmg ratio a bit.
Some random BS: illaoi nearly never lose to melee champion (expect the 1st 5 matches I played her which I lost to anyone terribly). she is very vulnerable to kiting as she can't live without tentacle. she has a win rate of 46% which imo is quite low. Her pick rate drops below 15% atm. This is just some random thought on her, I think she is really fun to play and anti-fun to play against.