I am currently Emerald 2 peak with 63% wr on Illaoi (80 games,) and I still run Flash TP every game. However, I just saw some pretty nutty stuff with the Lord Mardigo using exhaust. Particularly vs stupid champions like Yone (delete from game please Riot,) or enabling tower dives. I guess I've just gotten used to the extra security of TP incase I misplay and die early or w/e. How much am I losing out on by not going double combat sums?

I've just started playing. I've seen that W basically activates my tentacles, Q does some decent ranged damage. And R does very little damage, but spawns a ton of tentacles based on the amount of enemies around me. lane diff often says that my E is really good but I often hit the minions instead. I mainly played midlane Yasuo so this stuff is all new. Also later game idk what to do, keep pushing? team fight? how do i play team fights?

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Last 13 days I’m like 26-6 with Illaoi grinded back to Diamond 80% WR she’s so broken right now it’s wild.
Porofessor has me ranked top 300 and top 30 N.A. not very accurate.
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/rant on

• CC'd easily
• Cannot chase/move. Slow movement is ok for champs that can take some damage but she is just a punching bag and is seriously weak.
• Kited easily
• Tentacles easily removed by enemy/cannot be used in teleport. How about tentacles that actually attack enemy champs or minions when in range?
• Early levels pre-6 is useless to fight ANY enemy champ 1v1
• E + R is the only hope for any damage whatsoever and all enemy champions know this so they run away or mitigate the dmg
• Buggy targeting. Complete misses to enemy champs by tentacles.
  
• Why is E useless now? I will try not using E and see how she does. Even worse.
• Easy for new players to League? Nope.
• Easy for experienced players? Nope.
  

It is so frustrating to play now. I just don't understand her anymore. Why is she still so bad to play?

/rant off

The intrusive thoughts won... and so did the teamfight. The only unfortunate detail about this is that i got the penta before completing hubris sadge.

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I’m talking mainly about the W animation speed being slower than it used to be bug, but of course there’s other ones like w applying tentacle slam on towers (which I don’t mind but is odd)

Plat Illaoi main with 500k mastery mostly just interested in opinions on my decision making from other mains.

Items: Voltaic -> Gluttonous Greaves -> Steraks/Maw depending -> Sundered/Spirit Visage depending -> last 2 items are fully situational.

Spells: Tp Flash into weaker matchups, Ignite Flash into champs with strong 1-3 kill potential, Exhaust Flash into non top picks (usually)

Obj: sometimes I rotate for first drake if I'm up by 20 or more cs and a kill, I also solo take Rift Herald sometimes if tier 1 is gone early enough.

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Thanks for any input from the community.

dont understand why ornn lastpicked vs me, always easy matchup

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.

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 !

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.