As someone who really likes Illaoi

Over Innsmouth·Apr 17, 2016·6 votes·365 views

I'm really looking forward to the proposed Test of Spirit changes hitting live.

:^)

Especially since it seems like a good chunk of players don't read patch notes.

:^^)

7 Comments

charcharmunroApr 17, 20161 votes

What proposed changes?

Over InnsmouthApr 17, 20162 votes

Sigh.

E duration down to 15 seconds from 1 minute.

Tentacles spawn every 3 seconds instead of every 10 and can spawn on top of each other, and you can't break the curse by killing tentacles.

charcharmunroApr 17, 20161 votes

Presumably they'd buff up her power elsewhere? Because we all know the main issue with Illaoi is how immensely frustrating her E is, but how actually weak she is.

Teridax68Apr 17, 20161 votes

I think this might be a pretty good power adjustment on its own. Currently Illaoi's E feels sort of weak because it's spread out across a long duration, and so feels more annoying than deadly, but the above debuff is meant to run you through a gauntlet of constant danger, so enemies would have to be on their toes for those entire 15 seconds.

charcharmunroApr 17, 20161 votes

I have to wonder if her E then might be too strong, now that I think of it. They might change it so E-spawned tentacles disappear after it's over or some such.

Over InnsmouthApr 17, 20161 votes

Illaoi's weakness is by design though. She's got moments of insane power height, which is countered by relative mediocrity most of the rest of the time.

She's also the only juggernaut who is as the juggernaut class is described (perhaps also Nasus). She suffers when people run away, and benefits when people stay and fight her, unlike Darius who has two slows and because Bleed applies Phage passive he's fast, Garen with his spammable self-speed up, Mordekaiser who can build Rylai's to somewhat circumvent his lack of cc/mobility, and Skarner who is nothing but cc and movespeed.

I don't mind her being weak(er) than most anyway, I'd just want her to be playable. Not every champ has to be competitive/~~soloqueue~~ dynamicqueue viable.

A Miss FortuneApr 18, 20163 votes

I don't care if she's weak or not, her laning phase is too oppressive and she can't realistically exist outside of her current state without being extremely overpowered. Her kit is cool and unique but it isn't a healthy design as the trend goes with basically all other bruisers, all of which still have balance issues.