Talk:Illaoi/@comment-24496127-20160729083008/@comment-4636093-20160729094034

Illaoi was designed with enemy playstyle in mind not her own. When the enemy plays against Illaoi well they win, when the enemy plays against Illaoi poorly they lose, whether Illaoi plays well or poorly is less of a factor. Illaoi is a juggernaut and should be treated as such. If that 9/0 Wukong and Jarvan underestimates that 0/5 Illaoi and tries to 2v1 faceroll her to death what you'll end up with  100% of the time  is a 9/1 Wukong and Jarvan and a 2/5 Illaoi.

As for why she's stronger now is that Riot decided rightfully so that she had too much counterplay to the point where  she was useless when  people were catching on that you can't faceroll her. So they made changes to her to lessen this, it was more the changes to her E than her W, making it so that it couldn't be instantly purged by killing 3 tentacles and increasing their rate of spawn/attack. It's still got the counterplay that it's very easy to dodge the skillshot and Illaoi still needs to actually destroy the spirit in the first place.

In that Riven game it sounds like your team weren't reacting. "Fed Illaoi/Nasus/Jax pushing into our base? Don't worry, Riven will clearly 1v1 them and we'll just continue doing whatever it was we were doing."