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Illaoi mains or people with great knowledge of her game play.

Faceplow·3/3/2016, 12:45:38 PM·1 votes·839 views

I love this champ. One of my favorites by far (dunno if she's considered OP or not, I just know she's hella fun.)

I've been having issues lately when I've been playing her. It seems as though if someone (or just a majority of the team), builds any kind of HP pool with a little bit of armor that Illaoi just has some serious issues fighting.

Like for instance, I was facing a Kat mid with an Ekko jungle. Even E-ing, Ulting, W-ing, Q-ing with all those tentacles, I couldn't even get him below 50% health because his health was massive.

How can I counter this? Am I just doing it wrong? I normally build item 3748 and item 3071 then the rest into situational tanky items like item 3742 item 3065 etc.

I'm just having trouble with any champs who build a significant health pool and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I'd appreciate any help or advice.

This could include masteries or runes, etc. I'm just getting frustrated and feel so useless if people build health against me.

1 Comments

Capn Evan3/3/2016, 12:57:10 PM2 votes

She synergizes too well with item 3025 to ignore, and item 3053 too. Whenever I build those two items I am able to be very dangerous. The iceborn is of course so that they will slow down enough for your tentacles to hit them whenever you W them. The sterak is for anti-burst, and after that I mostly build tanky items, like item 3143 and item 3065.

She is not OP, she is balanced. Her ultimate is amazing but counterable by dodging the tentacles or running out of its range. She is countered a lot by CC, so I build item 3111 and sometimes even item 3140 to counter it.