Talk:Illaoi/@comment-4834593-20170127192409/@comment-4834593-20170128171702

aIllaoi is much, much, much tankier than Syndra. Certainly in elos below platinum/diamond (and I am silver 1 with low gold mmr right now), you need to have one or two champions who can take some hits without dying. That's just how it works. I still don't know exactly why, but I see tanky comps win far more often than damage comps.

@Oslah: I actually got ahead against Illaoi in the game before the post I made, getting an early kill. Then, I made a single misstep, she hit an E (most I dodged or hit a minion), and I tried to fight to get the spirit gone, but I just got chunked HARD, accidentally took a tower shot because I messed up a dash, died, and then got dived and killed three times in a row, dashes or no dashes. Also, maxing E first isn't going to do a thing. If I get to use E, I avoid the damage anyways (I've played more than enough Riven to automatically dodge a skillshot as soon as someone fires it), so a bigger shield won't help.