Illaoi- Why her?
Illaoi is a strong mid/late game champion. Her passive is one of the most digusting and broken things on face of the earth. She is one of the best toplaners to otp. She is good in all elos and she won't be bad soon. Overall very broken champion with very little counterplay, good scaling and her dificulty is really low.
In this guide I will include:
Items build on Illaoi
Runes
Summoners
Abilities and their patch
Matchups
Pros and cons
Her current state
TELEPORT is one of the best still
Matchups
Illaoi has very few counters. However she is miserable vs range toplaners and she can't play the entire game if enemy has more than 2 range champions. Her biggest counters are mordekaiser (his ult pretty much disables your passive) sett (his W) and vayne (range disgusting toplaner % true damage)
Bonus healing tenacity and survavibility in fights
Q- Buffs your passive (scaling with your ad and level of Q), on use slam your tentacle infront of you dealing dmg and healing you.
W- Basically a better autoattack but passive hits them when you hit them with your W
E- You shoot a projectile and if you hit there is a ghost of enemy champion which you can dmg WHICH also dmges them for a percentage (scaling with your AD)
R Slam the ground and your passive becomes invincible and 50% faster. Also your W has 2 second cooldown for the duration of your ult
Passive You spawn tentacles on nearby terrain which can slam opponents when you hit them with your W
Pros and cons
- Healing which can carry your entire teamfights
- She has great teamfights and can pretty much 1v5 if all enemies are melee and you are ahead
- Illaoi is an extremly easy champion with a few counters so you can pretty much blind pick her.
However...
- Illaoi is very miserable early game
- Is countered by most ranged champions
- If she falls behind it's hard for her to come back (not always)
Doran's shield is great for poke/trading/ranged matchup
Doran's blade is great for easy melee matchups
Plated vs enemy AD comps
Mercury vs AP and CC comps
Sterak's Gage is great for survavibility on fights and is a great second item powerspike
GA is a strong item for late game.
Black Cleaver is a strong powerspike for first/second item.
Experimental Hexplate is not as good as other items but worth a try if you need more dmg in your teamfights.
Spear of Shojin good item for boosting your abilities dmg (really good)
Hullbreaker for pushing towers.
Titanic Hydra is not that bad but not the best option for Illaoi
Sundered Sky is a strong item for survavibility and 1v1s. Overall very good and powerspike item.
Death's Dance one of the best Illaoi items. You should buy him 90% of games.
Chempunk is a great antiheal option for Illaoi.
Illaoi 14.4
Illaoi in patch 14.4 is REALLY good in every ELO. She can be played in challenger and iron. In my opinion Illaoi is a S+ champion for patch 14.4.
