Talk:Illaoi/@comment-27019624-20160821164006/@comment-9771997-20160904125734

90% of Illaoi's effectiveness rests on one sole factor: Can the enemy champion move?

Illaoi has multiple lines referring to her ultimate counterplay, movement. If the enemy champion can move fast enough to dodge your tentacles and your E then you lose a massive % of your damage and you're the weakest juggernaut in the game by far. I fulled an Illaoi on Teemo w/ Hextech Gunblade doing almost no damage to her because I sidestepped all of her tentacles and just chased her around sustaining off her pitiful regular damage.

If they can't move? I've gone 1v5 on Illaoi and actually won(I was super fed). I regularly have top laners dive me when they're full and I'm at 1/3 hp and they literally get one shotted from full because E counts as a champ for your ult(So it spawns an extra tentacle), so you E, R, then W and they just explode. If they don't die immediately tentcles keep swinging at them constantly if your E dies so they start rapid firing. I've done this to: Irelia, Tryndamere, Volibear, Kled, Darius, Mundo, Riven and Renekton(Off the top of my head), and I've regularly gotten called broken for it. Notice the pattern? They're all dive or immobile champion(except for Mundo, he was just cocky). Illaoi completely dumps on dive champions if you play her right. Never pick her into Singed, or Teemo(he's fast and blinding dart stops your W from making your tentacles swing), and don't pick her if they have an Amumu jungler or Cass mid. Why? Your W counts as a movement ability so a Cass Miasma or Mumu R stops you from using your W entirely, and you get wrecked.

Darius is much more flexible, and he pays for it by having to work for his power whereas Illaoi can just jump in and go ham. That work results in him also having to be able to stick to people while Illaoi just one shots them if the player knows what s/he is doing.

'''Also Nasus is the strongest juggernaut. If he's patient he can sit and farm until he outscales her and tank out Illaoi's whole ult and just beat her to death with his cane(Source: I've done it), go in too early though and you'll get one shotted. Same with Darius, just gotta know when you've outscaled them, get vision, and assert dominance.'''