How are you gonna nerf Yorick, but leave Illaoi untouched?

Nhifu·Aug 31, 2018·1 votes·737 views

Seriously one of the strongest champs into bruiser/tank and not worth a ban unless your top's a complete trash player.

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Moody PSep 1, 20182 votes

Because Illaoi is terrible right now.

Doge2020Sep 1, 20181 votes

Illaoi has a bunch of counter play built into her kit. You can easily dodge q and e unless she is literally right in front of you, you can easily walk out of the second part of her e and the r. if she hits her e on you, you can attack her a bunch to quickly end it before she kills the spirit, walk out of the range of the e, or you can just stand near a tentacle when she kills the spirit. After it hits you the first time just stand near it and it won’t hit you again (unless she uses w on you). Illaoi has zero CC, and a super small gap closer.

Meanwhile Yorick has two CC abilities, both of which help get his ghouls to you and make sure you stay still to eat their attacks. Which means that by default yorick’s kit has slightly less counterplay that Illaoi. Yorick’s q is a single target enhanced AA (basically enhanced AA) that deals extra damage and applies on hit effects.

I can compare all parts of these two champs as much as I like but I don’t have the time, so in summary: Yorick’s overall kit has less counterplay compared to Illaoi and lets him dominate games easier than Illaoi. Illaoi is in a balanced spot right now (around 50.5% Winrate globally) while Yorick is the best toplaner in the lower ranks. (Around 53.0% win rate)