r/Illaoi

i dont understand anything about this champ in lane it feels so op, how do i counter it, i stand behind minions, i evade abilities but once ONE E hits me legit ALWAYS half my hp is gone how do i stop this from happening? do i just leave the tentacles and let heimer do her thing and farm what scraps are brought to me? cause i cant hold the wave since her E exists 😔😔😔😔😔😭😭

Also what items counter illaoi? bramble early and such but she just goes black cleaver or iceborn gauntlet and still hits like a truck for some reason

Basically what as an Illaoi player makes you miserable !

Title. I am an old school Illaoi OTP, played her almost exclusively between 2015 and 2021 or so. I had over 1 million mastery points combined between my 2 accounts. Afterwards I quit League in favour of Dota 2, but now I am back to play for who knows how long, but my placement matches await.

I have some questions:

• Have any new tough matchups for her released? Have any of her classic bad matchups (Heimer, Teemo, Morde) gotten any better?
• With the current quests setup, do you still go TP?
• How do you play the lane, if you get a kill do you push or recall?

And anything else someone about 5 years behind the curve should know. Thank you all.

Thoughts on Illaoi jungle where you get level 2 and aggressively invade? Using your testicles and w e damage to win early trades and get a gold lead that then transitions into neutral objective control.

Ive just watched my replay and it showed me that enemy saw me casting test of spirit from the other side of a wall. He had so much time that he dodged because of that. On the other hand i thought enemy cant see me casting e from the bush

Title. As Illaoi main I often go for Gwen but I think Mordekaiser could also do it pretty fairly.

Seems like this would be good for matchups where you cant hit Q or E but always land W. Can someone explain to me all of the max health scaling on Illaoi?

Was thinking of different builds for Illaoi and was looking at Lethality items.

I think the main idea would be to rush Hubris as first item.

Hubris (On-Kill +12 (+3 per stack) AD, 90 sec)
[55 AD | 10 Haste | 18 Lethality]

I think this gives insane value during team fights and has good AD + Snowball potential.

If building Black Cleaver then I don’t think another Lethality item is needed, since it has % armor penetration.

The other 2 Lethality items that could work would be:

Edge of Night (Spell Shield + Only lethality item with health)
[50 AD | 250 HP | 18 Lethality]

Axiom Arc (Get Ult back up quicker for the next fight)
[55 AD | 20 Haste | 18 Lethality]

I think only building one of these would be fine, since you still want Bruiser items/ HP on Illaoi.

The other items that are best on Illaoi to round out any build would be:

Sundered Sky, Spear of Shojin, Black Cleaver, Overlords Bloodmail, and Sterak’s Gage, plus Boots of choice.

I want to run some calculations to see if building full Bruiser is more AD efficient with Overlords Bloodmail vs adding Hubris to the build (with stacks varying).

Let me know your thoughts, I haven’t actually tried this out yet, just theory crafting!

TLDR:
I think Hubris has potential on Illaoi and has good synergy with team fights / Black Cleaver.

It would be nice if you could snipe a spirit from under tower and get a borderline free kill! Gathering Storm comes to mind, but I'm still not entirely sure how that rune works sadly

Thoughts? I really enjoy off-meta builds and alternate playstyles, and this seems like it could open up a fun lethality option for Illaoi.