In regards to the upcoming Illaoi changes in the next patch

Ronin Tamos·5/1/2016, 9:04:17 PM·2 votes·482 views

Where would lie the focus when she will get buffs after the change of her E ?

Meaning which parts of her kit will most likely see number improvements/ QoL changes in favour of her.

Because despite the removing of a lot of frustration from her E for the opposing player,

the decrease of the "theoretical" max ammount of tentacle spawns from one every ten seconds for the duration of at least 3 tentacles

down to 2 tentacles at level 1 to a max ammount of 4 tentacles at level 5 is a nerf.

Comparison :

  • Old E: min Tentacles: 3 ; max Tentacles (no removal) : 10
  • New E : min Tentacles (lvl 1) 2 ; max Tentacles (lvl 5) 4

Despite some QoL changes avoiding the tentacles is still way to easy and killing them might not remove the debuff but still eliminates the danger they present. Therefore her Vessel debuff might become quite an insignificant and ignorable state that the lane opponents have to go trough once in a while without being a real threat to them

Source: http://www.surrenderat20.net/p/69-pbe-cycle.html#balance

Tl; Dr

The Illaoi changes might be good for game health issues but also might lower the threat the vessel debuff has as it spawns less tentacles, which are still easy to dodge. Therefore im asking where she might see buffs if her power level will sink after the changes.

3 Comments

Elite4Runner5/1/2016, 9:23:26 PM3 votes

How about improving the tentacle attack speed, either across the board, by level, or by stat? As you mentioned, her tentacles are fairly easy to dodge. If they attacked much faster on spawn they would be a lot more difficult to dodge.

TsZ IronPhoenix5/5/2016, 9:37:17 AM2 votes

You cant spawn 4 tentacles maximum 10 sec vessel 3 sec tentacles spawn = maximum of 3 sadly and old e 60 sec 10 sec tentacles spawn = maximum of 6

I think the vessel should have increased duration from lvl 1 e 10 and lvl 5 e 15 so you get a maximum of 5 but you will never get 5 tentacles cause there is no place to spawn them.