Talk:Illaoi/@comment-4834593-20170127192409/@comment-31203455-20170313154807

Avoid fighting in her "Garden" of Tentacles - Illaoi is strong in an area that she has been in for a while as she will have more tentacles available.

Clear any tentacles you can while Illaoi is busy - Ranged Champions are better but again, be careful of entering her "Garden".

Use minions to block her E ability. Attacking her can help when you do fuck up in this department, it is not a death sentence - Your soul counts as "entering her Garden", so apply that rule to also not getting caught by her E when trying to do anything.

Her main poke has a wind up and can be avoided by moving to the side. Not immediately away from her. That is the Prometheus School of running away from things and is dumb.

Illaoi needs to hit you with her Q to heal. Avoid that and she can't heal. - Counter this by playing with sustain so you heal more than she can more quickly.

Illaoi's Q is very short ranged, but that won't stop her jumping on you if you get too close. Punish her if she attempts to do this while you are outside of her Tentacles range.

In skirmishes, disengage immediately after she uses her ultimate - force her to use it then back off. This will waste her tentacles.

Don't stack up when fighting Illaoi - Spread out or even better, keep her at range so she can't strike multiple targets with her ultimate and the resultant tentacles.

In fights will Illaoi, shields, heals and damage reduction really help. So do silences, slows, stuns and roots.

Illaoi is a Juggernaut - Ranged poke and crowd control are as painful to her as getting close to a target is a joy.

So the ways to kill Illaoi include;

Range Location - Avoiding her Tentacled Areas (Dirty boys) Avoiding unneeded Damage Competitive Sustain Spreading Out Wasting her Ultimate "Saving your Soul" by attacking her Shields Heals Damage Reduction Teamwork Stunning, slowing and/or rooting her