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Illaoi
Illaoi is a champion in League of Legends.[1]
Abilities
- Illaoi cannot spawn Tentacles on ally invulnerable structures, in addition to neither her nor the Vessel being able to spawn them in Nexus Obelisk's attack range.
- Terrain also includes player-made terrain and terrain that is passable by a team but not by the other (e.g. base gates).
- The Tentacle will continue its spawn animation and be able to start an attack, after the animation ends, even if Illaoi or a Vessel are not nearby.
- If Illaoi uses Harsh Lesson during Tentacles' spawn animation, they won't attack but the SFX of the attack will still be heard.
- When this happens, the Tentacle's next attack after spawning will be delayed, as if the tentacle was performing an invisible attack.
- After the tentacle spawns, there's a 0.25 second delay during which they may only be commanded to attack by a Harsh Lesson. If followed by a Test of Spirit command, this attack will be slightly delayed, as per above.
- Tentacle Smash's hitbox is fixed in front of Illaoi, while the indicator on the ground is fixed to the targeted direction.
- If Illaoi is not visible, the slam will be seen but it will not be heard.
| Type | Cast time | |
|---|---|---|
| Attacking | Disabled | |
| Abilities |  Test of Spirit and  Leap of Faith are disabled.  Harsh Lesson is usable.
| |
| Movement | Disabled | |
| Items | Usable |  Shurelya's Battlesong  Turbo Chemtank  Youmuu's Ghostblade  Gargoyle Stoneplate  Randuin's Omen
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| Disabled | All the other item-actives are disabled | |
| Interrupted by | N/A | |
| Consumables | Usable | |
| Spells | Usable |  Barrier  Clarity  Cleanse  Exhaust  Ghost  Heal  Ignite  Smite
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| Disabled |  Flash  Teleport  Recall  Hexflash
| |
| Interrupted by | N/A | |
| Interrupted by |  Resurrection
| |
- The bonus damage doesn't apply life steal but it does apply spell vamp.
- 𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐄𝐒𝐓 : Omnivamp
- Harsh Lesson is made of two different abilities which are decided by Illaoi's range to the target, being either melee or within dash range.
- The close range ability:
- Has an uncancelable windup.
- Can be used while grounded or rooted. If Illaoi attack commands and then casts Harsh Lesson, she will use the close range Harsh Lesson even if the target is beyond her melee range.
- Starting the attack before triggering Guardian Angel's passive and hitting while she's in it will not cause the Tentacles to slam.
- The attack will still hit if the target becomes untargetable, but will not if it dies.
- Does trigger Hail of Blades.
- Triggers Energized effects on-hit.
- If the empowered attack duration ends during the attack animation, the attack won't be empowered.
- Has an
- The dash range ability:
- Does not have an uncancelable windup, meaning effects that can interrupt the dash will cancel the attack and put the ability on cooldown.
- Can be cast but cannot be used while grounded or rooted because Illaoi loses the bonus attack range.
- The attack will not hit if the target becomes untargetable, but does hit if it dies.
- Does not trigger Hail of Blades.
- Triggers Energized effects during the jump.
- Having enough attack speed will perform an unusual dunk.
- Having increased size will increase the range of her Harsh Lesson but the indicator range will not change.
- If the empowered attack duration ends during the dash, the buff will linger until the attack has finished.
- Parrying the attack ( dodge, block, blind) will not trigger Tentacle slams, with the exception of:
- If the target dies at the instant Harsh Lesson is about to hit the target, the attack will hit, be consumed, but will not make the Tentacles slam.
- The Tentacle attacking because of Harsh Lesson is considered to be of the same cast instance, and thus will not grant additional stacks of Conqueror, Electrocute, Phase Rush and Tribute.
- Harsh Lesson's bonus damage applies before Blade of the Ruined King's damage.
- Harsh Lesson triggers Bone Plating and one of its plates with the same attack.
- Attack moving while charging Hexflash will delay the attack.
- Spirits are classified as clones:
- Spirits can only be fully targeted by Illaoi's team and neutral monsters. The Spirit's allies cannot manually select it as a valid target for spells and abilities, but they can still do so with automatically targetted effects.
- Spirits take 50% damage from turrets and do not cause turrets to Warm Up their attacks.
- Spirits cannot be healed nor shielded ( Summon Aery excluded).
- The Spirit levels up when the Vessel does. Doing so will increase the Spirit's health, armor, and magic resist, and additionally extend its lifetime by 1 second.
- The Spirit is untargetable while it is being pulled.
- Redirected damage is calculated by taking the pre-mitigation damage against the Spirit, applying Test of Spirit's damage modifier, and then capping it to the Spirit's current health. This damage will then be affected by damage modifiers (resistances and other effects) of the Vessel.
- This means that the damage received by the Spirit is not representative of the damage redirected to the Vessel, as each calculates their damage taken based on their respective modifiers (which can be different).
- If the Spirit's damage modifier is lower than the Vessel's, it will cause an increase in total possible redirected damage from killing the Spirit, else it will cause a decrease. This does not modify the damage per hit, but does modify the effective health that can be redirected.
- If the Spirit's damage modifier is higher than Test of Spirit's, and the Spirit's current health is low enough (or the damage per hit is high enough) to be affected by the above cap, it will cause an increase in redirected damage per hit, else it will cause a decrease. This is because the cap causes a difference between the amount it really redirects and the amount that it should redirect, which is up to a cap of
((Spiritmod ÷ Emod − 1) × 100)%, dependent on the amount of damage dealt in respective to the Spirit's current health. - Illaoi needs 937.5 / 875 / 812.5 / 750 / 687.5 total AD to reach 100% redirected damage. As per above, the damage is still dependent on the Spirit's and Vessel's damage modifiers and may not always be able to deal 100% of the target's current health as total redirected damage.
- Spell shields may only prevent the initial spirit grab and the slow upon becoming a Vessel. Spell shields will not prevent becoming a Vessel or Tentacles from attacking.
- The tendril can be blocked by abilities such as Yasuo's Wind Wall, but the returning tether slow cannot, even if it can otherwise be destroyed by effects that can do so (i.e untargetability).
- The tether slow will not be fired if the target is already untargetable when the Spirit dies.
- The tether slow will not be fired if the target is already
- The spirit pull is not considered a crowd control effect and will not be blocked by crowd control immunity, with the exception of Morgana's Black Shield.(note)
- If the target becomes a Vessel within range of a dormant Tentacle, that Tentacle will skip its first attack.
- The projectile tentacle model is linked to Illaoi's model animation and size. However gameplay wise it does not, thus the actual hitbox being different than the position, width and length of the visible model.
- Test of Spirit will fire from wherever Illaoi is at the end of the cast time towards the same pointed location.
- Grabbing the Spirit of a champion before it goes into resurrection via Chronoshift or Guardian Angel will spawn the Spirit with 0 health, making it invulnerable.
- The same does not happen with other resurrection effects (i.e Karthus' Death Defied) since they leave the champion with more than 0 health.
- The same does not happen with other resurrection effects (i.e
- Grabbing the Spirit of a champion with Flow or Ferocity will make the Spirit's lifetime (the white bar below the lifebar) disappear.
- Grabbing the Spirit of an Oathsworn, or of a champion that is camouflaged while they are being revealed by a Control Ward, will make the Spirit invisible.
- Only Illaoi can see who's been Vesseled, with their model covered in watery effects. The Vessel itself will instead have its screen covered in watery effects.
- The Vessel status effect is a debuff that doesn't persist through death.
- If the enemy champion is resurrecting when the conditions for becoming a Vessel are met, then they will not revive as a Vessel.
- Runes consider the Spirit as a champion for their effects and stat-tracking.
- Transferred damage will apply on-damage effects, such as Black Cleaver, Morellonomicon, Executioner's Calling, Riftmaker, Aspect of the Dragon burn damage.
- The Spirit will also redirect the bonus damage dealt by Riftmaker and Aspect of the Dragon, effectively double diping their damage to the Vessel. In particular, Riftmaker also further increases its own redirected damage, granting an additional 0.81% bonus damage at full stacks, for a total of 18.81%.
- 𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐄𝐒𝐓 : Healing from Omnivamp
- Transferred damage will not doubly apply on-hit or on-spell effects versus the target (e.g. Liandry's Anguish, Phase Rush stacks). These effects are only applied versus the Spirit.
- Attacking the Vessel and its Spirit simultaneously will only apply one stack of Black Cleaver to the Vessel.
- Transferred damage will not doubly apply on-hit or on-spell effects versus the target (e.g.
- Once the Spirit vanishes, whether defeated or not, Illaoi will get 1 creep score in-game (not included in the post-game counter).
- The Spirit is immune to stasis (i.e. Bard's Tempered Fate).
- Fiora's Riposte can be used to prevent becoming a Vessel if used before the Spirit is killed or while leaving the tether's range.
- Sion's Spirit cannot be spawned during Glory in Death. Spirits created before Sion's zombie state will remain active.
- If the target that had its Spirit pulled from them is taken into the Realm of Death, the tether will break, but they will not be made into a Vessel.
- The following table refers for interactions while Illaoi is firing the projectile and while the target's Spirit is being pulled:
| Attacking | Disabled | |
|---|---|---|
| Abilities | Disabled | |
| Movement | Disabled | |
| Items | Usable | N/A |
| Disabled | All items are disabled | |
| Interrupted by | N/A | |
| Consumables | Disabled | |
| Spells | Usable | Barrier Clarity Cleanse Exhaust Ghost Heal Ignite Smite
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| Disabled | Flash Teleport Recall Hexflash
| |
| Interrupted by | N/A | |
| Interrupted by | ||
- Leap of Faith's effects are centered around Illaoi at the end of the cast time.
- Flash can be used during the cast time to reposition her.
- Clones also count as champions for the summoning of the Tentacle.
- Illaoi spawns the Tentacle 725 range away from her, unless there's a natural wall blocking the way making the Tentacle spawn on it, based on:
- The direction she's facing.
- She will always face at the nearest visible enemy champion, in Leap of Faith's range, the instant she leaps.
- If there's no enemy champion nearby, she faces in the direction of the cursor.
- Flashing mid-animation will change the spawning direction to where the cursor is pointed, regardless of the nearest enemy champion.
- She will always face at the nearest
- How many champions she hits.
- 1+ champions: one Tentacle at 0 degrees. (in front of Illaoi)
- 2+ champions: one Tentacle at 60 degrees.
- 3+ champions: one Tentacle at 300 degrees.
- 4+ champions: one Tentacle at 120 degrees.
- 5+ champions: one Tentacle at 240 degrees.
- 6+ champions: one Tentacle at 180 degrees.
- 1+ champions: one
- If there are no walls nearby, spawning the last Tentacle will form a perfect hexagon.
- The direction she's facing.
- Spell shields will block the ability's damage but will not prevent Tentacles from spawning.
- If Illaoi dies within 0.25 seconds of dropping down, she will still spawn Tentacles, but they will not be buffed.
- If Illaoi is near a Tentacle that is about to spawn, it will spawn buffed by Leap of Faith even if Illaoi is no longer nearby.
- Using Harsh Lesson after Illaoi drops down will command Tentacles to instantly attack, regardless if they were already attacking. Their old attack will keep on going and will hit while the second attack is on its animation attack.
- Using Harsh Lesson an instant before Leap of Faith's buff finishes will delay the Tentacle's attack.
Pets
| Control type | The  Tentacle is commanded to attack each time a target in its range gets hit by Harsh Lesson.
The Tentacle is also able to periodically automatically attack the closest Its attacks get queued up if it receives more than one attack command. The queued attacks will always have 1 attack speed, even if affected by If a Tentacle is killed while attacking, the Tentacle will first finish its attack and then die, without being able to queue up other commands. Tentacles can receive attack commands 0.25 seconds after dying, and are able to queue up other commands during the timeframe. Tentacles will only start attacks against targets whose |
|---|---|
| Target type | Ward (can be teleported to).
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| On-hit effects | Hits through  Counter Strike and  Spirit's Refuge.
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| Spell effects | Applies spell effects as  area damage.
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| Protection |
Tentacles that hit the same target within 0.5 seconds of each other deal 50% less damage than the previous Tentacle, up to a cap of 75% less damage than the first. A single |
Abilities
The Tentacle damages all non-structure enemies it hits along its length,
The Tentacle alerts Illaoi whenever it takes damage.
The Tentacle remains awakened if Illaoi or a Vessel are within 2000 range and not
The Tentacle enrages for 8 seconds after
All Tentacles around 1000 range of an enemy champion are
If Illaoi is in a different dimension than her Tentacles (i.e | |
Patch history
- For the expanded patch notes, see here.
- Tentacle Smash
- Bug Fix: Illaoi's model animation no longer fizzles if she inputs another command right after casting the ability.
- Stats
- Base movement speed increased to 350 from 340.
- Stats
- Mana growth increased to 50 from 40.
- Stats
- Base magic resistance reduced to 32 from 32.1.
- Base health increased to 586 from 585.6.
- Prophet of an Elder God
- Cooldown reduced to 20 − 7.25 (based on level) seconds from 20 − 12 (based on level).
- Harsh Lesson
- Bug Fix: Spellshields no longer block and pop from the bonus damage of the close range part of the ability (dash range continues to pop spellshields and deal full damage).
- Test of Spirit
- Bug Fix: Lulu's team can no longer get permanent vision of an area if she is cloned by Test of Spirit and dies while Help, Pix! is activated on Lulu.
- Bug Fix:
- Test of Spirit
- Undocumented: Perfect Timing no longer considers the Spirit as a champion for the takedown effect.
- Undocumented:
- Harsh Lesson
- Indicator added to show recast ability timer.
- Test of Spirit
- Undocumented: Swain's Ravenous Flock, Katarina's Voracity, Master Yi's Highlander and Kha'Zix's Evolved Wings takedown effects no longer trigger on the Spirit.
- Undocumented: Blade of the Ruined King no longer has its damage capped against the Spirit as if it was considered a minion.
- Undocumented: Perfect Timing now considers the Spirit as a champion for the takedown effect.
- Undocumented:
- Test of Spirit
- Bug Fix: Can no longer pull spirits of targets protected by Morgana's Black Shield.
- Bug Fix: Can no longer pull spirits of targets protected by
- Harsh Lesson
- Bug Fix: Can now be cast while grounded or rooted.
- Undocumented: Casting an attack command before casting the ability on a target beyond melee range will now use the melee version of the ability instead of the dash version.
- Harsh Lesson
- Bug Fix: Cannot be cast while grounded or rooted. If casted before, only the close version may be used, while negating the attack commands while being in dash version.
- Test of Spirit
- Undocumented: Jinx's Get Excited! takedown effect no longer triggers on the Spirit.
- Undocumented:
- Prophet of an Elder God
- Removed: Tentacles are no longer put on 1 health when they go dormant.
- Undocumented: Illaoi can no longer spawn Tentacles on ally invulnerable structures (the Vessel still can).
- New Effect: Tentacles can no longer be stopped from attacking. If they're killed or they have to vanish during the slam, they will instead die after finishing the slam.
- Undocumented: Tentacles can now be commanded to attack 0.25 seconds after their death.
- New Effect: Tentacle damage now also scales with 40% AP.
- New Effect: Cooldown is now pingable.
- Tentacle lifetime while dormant reduced to 30 seconds from 60.
- Range of enemies to gain vision of tentacles reduced to 1000 units from 1400.
- Bug Fix: Enemy champions no longer globally gain vision of tentacles that are slamming.
- Undocumented: Commanded Tentacles now attack in the order they were commanded to. For example, doing an E-W will first do the E attack and then the W attack rather than two W attacks. This fixes some stacking mechanics like Conqueror's.
- Harsh Lesson
- New Effect: Now has a minimum base damage of 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60, that can be applied on turrets.
- Undocumented: Bonus damage no longer applies lifesteal healing.
- New Effect: Now has a minimum base damage of 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60, that can be applied on
- Test of Spirit
- Removed: Spirit duration is no longer reduced by 1.25 seconds each time the target damages Illaoi with basic attacks, by 1 second with single target spells and by 0.66 seconds with area of effect ones.
- Spirit duration reduced to 7 seconds from 10.
- Vessel duration reduced to 10 seconds from 12.
- Tentacle automatic attack cooldown reduced to 5.5 / 4.5 / 3.5 (based on level) seconds from 10 seconds at all levels.
- Undocumented: Automatic attack cooldown starts at the start of the slam rather than at the end of the slam.
- Undocumented: Swain's Ravenous Flock takedown effect now also triggers when the Spirit dies, regardless of being allied or enemy.
- Undocumented: Tether now breaks if the target moves to the Realm of Death.
- Undocumented: Grabbing the spirit of a champion with red resource (i.e rage) no longer makes the spirit not show its lifetime.
- Leap of Faith
- Maximum tentacle summons increased to 6 from 5.
- Undocumented If Illaoi dies immediately after using the ability, already spawned tentacles will not be empowered.
- Leap of Faith
- Undocumented: Hitting the Spirit no longer spawns two tentacles.
- Prophet of an Elder God
- Undocumented: Spell shields now block tentacle slams. A single spell shield can block multiple slams.
- Undocumented:
- Harsh Lesson
- Undocumented: Can no longer issue an attack command after casting the ability to dash while rooted. Can still dash if the attack command is issued before casting the ability.
- Test of Spirit
- Undocumented: Can now grab the Spirit of other decoys.
- Undocumented: Draven's League of Draven no longer triggers when killing the Spirit.
- Undocumented: Katarina's Voracity, Master Yi's Highlander and Kha'Zix's Evolved Wings takedown effects now trigger on the Spirit.
- Undocumented: No longer blocks Kayle from using her Celestial Blessing while the Spirit is nearby.
- Undocumented: The Spirit can no longer be targeted by Divine Judgement.
- Leap of Faith
- Undocumented: Now spawns tentacles by hitting decoys other than the Spirit.
- Undocumented: Hitting the Spirit now spawns two tentacles instead of one.
- Test of Spirit
- Undocumented: League of Draven and Get Excited! now trigger on the Spirit.
- Undocumented:
- Test of Spirit
- Undocumented: Can now grab a spirit through Morgana's Black Shield.
- Undocumented: Can now grab a spirit through
- Leap of Faith
- Undocumented: The animation no longer sometimes bugs out, making Illaoi not leap in the air.
- Leap of Faith
- New Effect: Ability icon HUD now shows the remaining duration of the ability.
- Test of Spirit
- Cooldown reduced to 16 / 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 seconds from 20 / 18 / 16 / 14 / 12.
- Leap of Faith
- Cooldown reduced to 120 / 95 / 70 seconds from 120 / 105 / 90.
- Test of Spirit
- Bug Fix: The Black Cleaver now correctly stacks on the spirit.
- Bug Fix:
- Void Bringer Illaoi
- Harsh Lesson
- Bug Fix: Fixed an FPS hitching issue that occurred when she sucessfully Teleported while her Harsh Lesson attack buff was active.
- Bug Fix: Fixed an FPS hitching issue that occurred when she sucessfully
- Test of Spirit
- Bug Fix: The Spirit now correctly takes true damage from Conqueror.
- Bug Fix: The Spirit now correctly takes true damage from
- Tentacle Smash
- Undocumented: No longer shows a damage increase of 5% before upgrading to rank 1.
- Prophet of an Elder God
- Bug Fix: Tentacles no longer count as wards for the purpose of placing and destroying them.
- Undocumented: VFX particles upon slaming on low graphics removed.
- Test of Spirit
- Undocumented: Illaoi and her enemies can no longer see the range which breaks Test of Spirit's tether on low graphics.
- Prophet of an Elder God
- Undocumented: Tentacles no longer keep their dance SFX after Illaoi stops dancing if she spammed the dance command.
- Harsh Lesson
- Undocumented: The attack can no longer be cancelled when attacking non-minions or non-champions.
- Undocumented: The dashed version can now stack and trigger Guinsoo's Rageblade.
- Undocumented: Now correctly calculates damage done based on Muramana's bonus ad.
- Undocumented: The bonus damage is now dealt before Blade of the Ruined King's one.
- Prophet of an Elder God
- Bug Fix: Tentacle slams no longer fizzle if an enemy dies after being acquired as a slam target.
- Harsh Lesson
- Bug Fix: Any tentacles that would slam Illaoi's target now do so if her target dies during the leap animation.
- New Effect: Empowered attack can no longer be canceled.
- Test of Spirit
- Undocumented: Stacking Press the Attack on the spirit no longer permanently disables the rune.
- Undocumented: Stacking
- Stats
- Base attack damage increased to 68 from 60.
- Base armor increased to 35 from 26.
- Harsh Lesson
- Bug Fix: No longer does additional damage on crits when she dashes.
- Undocumented: Now correctly deals damage after Blade of the Ruined King's one.
- Prophet of an Elder God
- Removed: Tentacles killed increasing the minion killed stat.
- Prophet of an Elder God
- Bug Fix: Lifesteal no longer applies when hitting tentacles.
- Harsh Lesson
- Bug Fix: Can no longer spam Harsh Lesson to ignore the cast time of Test of Spirit.
- Bug Fix: Can no longer spam Harsh Lesson to ignore the cast time of
- General
- Bug Fix: Illaoi's tentacles now normally swing at champions under the effects of Taric's Cosmic Radiance or Kindred's Lamb's Respite.
- Bug Fix: Illaoi's tentacles now normally swing at champions under the effects of
- Prophet of an Elder God
- New Effect: Tentacles are now visible in brush to enemy champions within their normal vision range.
- General
- Tentacle indicators are now more accurate when displaying the area they're going to Slam.
- General
- Clarity: All tooltips updated.
- Tentacle Smash
- Passive changed to 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30% increased damage from increasing the AD ratio by 0 / 10 / 20 / 30 / 40% AD.
- Harsh Lesson
- Damage changed to 3 / 3.5 / 4 / 4.5 / 5% (+「 2% per 100 AD 」「 1% per 50 AD 」) of target's maximum health from 15 / 35 / 55 / 75 / 95 (+ 10% AD). The new damage is capped at 300 against non-champions.
- Test of Spirit
- Harsh Lesson
- Cooldown reduced to 4 seconds at all ranks from 6 / 5.5 / 5 / 4.5 / 4 seconds.
- Prophet of an Elder God
- New Effect: Tentacles no longer appear in fog of war but stay revealed once first seen.
- Test of Spirit
- Vessel duration reduced to 12 seconds from 60.
- Tentacles spawn interval reduced to 5 / 4 / 3 (based on level) seconds from 10.
- Tentacles spawned by a Vessel can now spawn closer to each other.
- Removed: Killing 3 Tentacles dispels the Vessel effect early.
- Removed: Enemies being able to see Tentacles spawning in fog of war.
- Removed: Recall prevents Tentacles from spawning.
- Undocumented: Vessel debuff now refreshes if applied again on the enemy.
- Leap of Faith
- Bug Fix: Tentacles spawned no longer fail to attack Harsh Lesson targets the moment before expiring.
- Bug Fix:
- Leap of Faith
- New Effect: Illaoi becomes unstoppable while casting.
- New Effect: Illaoi becomes
- Test of Spirit
- Mana cost reduced to 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 from 35 / 45 / 55 / 65 / 75.
- Removed: 0.25 seconds root after missing.
- New Effect: Illaoi can instantly move after casting.
- New Effect: Tentacles killed by allies within 5 seconds of being hit by a Vessel counts towards the debuff's removal.
- Bug Fix: Fiora could Riposte the application of the Vessel debuff as it flew towards her.
- Added
See also
| Cancelled Champions | |
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