Illaoi suffers in the sheer fact she HAS to get on the enemy team or otherwise flash ult to be a major threat as the game goes on past laning phase.
So my thought is; Let her ult work kinda like a Malphite ult where she slams the area around the selected spot. Otherwise everything else about her ult stays the same.
She needs something that says my presence is a threat instead of I can only ult if you walk towards me
No
Illaoi is the most uninteractive Juggernaut in the game.
The only counterplay to her is...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUG9VzHoEoc
And you're suggesting to have even that much removed from her.
That's just all kinds of no.
Illaoi is fine right now and possibly too strong. She doesn't need anything.
I could be down if they made it essentially like her w where it can target someone, but then theres the drawback of not hitting a stealthed champ near you, honestly I think the area should be widened a little or give her some extra tenacity during, especially with the way that it scales (so someone who takes ninja against an ad comp could get like 20-25, but someone who took mercs and legend would only get like 5% more) or slow resist to kind of match the pissed off tentacle god ult she's supposed to have. Granted, there's not a lot I would change about her, I still hate the time being lowered on her E since that's her only big laning tool against ranged harass and the fact that they already took away the mechanic where being attacked by the soul's owner lowered the cd, but the w changes to monsters helps i guess? Decreased time e is in effect after killing/leaving range by 2 seconds, but tentacles slam significantly more often, overall is a buff but it feels like it was in the wrong places instead of reinforcing her heavy immobile presence.
