r/Illaoi

I am new to the champ and I find this match up rough, mainly just because I don't think you can actually get ahead of him. But I have been going sheen into sundered? Not sure if theres a better build path but lmk

I haven't played in the last year. I started playing again around 3 weeks ago, haven't fought illaoi up until yesterday.

The most cancerous part about fighting illaoi is the slow you get after the death of the spirit. It felt much much better not being slowed as much, and the tentacles only getting one chance to hit you. It makes the laning phase much more playable, though still extremely cancerous.

This is my opinion as someone who believes this champion is stupidly broken into the right champs. How do you feel about it?

Any in-depth illaoi guides that are up to date ?

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Sou platina IV hoje e queria masterizar a illaoi pois gosto bastante dela. O problema é que sempre que pesquiso vejo pessoas de elo mais alto falando que ela é muito fraca para subir de elo, algo sobre não conseguir punir mais o erro dos jogadores que são mais comuns em elos mais baixos.

Per Spideraxe

Over 100% gold efficient on base stats

Builds out of phage + tunneler

70 AD and 20% bonus movement speed for Illaoi ult duration

Build every game if this goes through

So, I have to preface this with I’m not actually an illaoi player. But one of the reasons I can’t switch to maining her is that specifically in team fights, her combos are sooooooooo slow. As in, late game, I can hit my e and press r and be killed before a tentacle even slams down. When a champion like riven exists, can illaoi get an animation cancel?

Specifically, I think she should only have to animate sending out a tendril to grab the spirit. Once it hits, the yank back should be automatic, she shouldn’t have to animate yanking it back. That way, she can immediately combo it with r or q or whatever. Would this break her in-lane? It would definitely make her stronger, but tbh, she’s way too oppressive in lane (in good matchups) and way too trash in team fights so I’d be fine swapping some power.

I get that she’s a one dimensional champ where you have to hit e, but the cast time lockout has to be like the longest for a zero cc spell in the game. And that matters that it’s zero cc because that means you can be hit the entire time you’re casting it (unlike say zaahen w. So, l late game when dps gets insane, champions can face tank your e and just kill you before a tentacle slams, leaving you literally zero options.

as the title states and is the likely explanation for her W jankyness this recent patch but they shadow nerfed her W and im not sure why they would even do that its kinda upsetting they removed a whole build path (albeit fairly unconventional one) and didnt mention it through a patch note nor address some issues illaois having with so many conflicting changes to E and tentacle behavior im having instances where tentacles wont even attempt to attack cursed players but the niche W tech was the issue??