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That's why in season 1 I started playing Mundo. Neigh impossible to kill back then as his healing was much stronger and force of nature was also insane.
I always get a small glimmer of hope from these videos that even though the featured player has thousands of hours into that champ, I can just use this video as a guide play a champ like Illaoi for the first time ever in a ranked game, and just easily stomp.... unfortunately my hope is always quickly shattered and my teammates are quick to flame when I am 0-4 two minutes into the first game. That said... we queueing Illaoi mid today boys!
Ye illaoi is kinda (before 6) a Canon minion with sums. Sh eis only string when the guy playing her is a otp 5m Master points, or if the player shes playing against is doing the dificult task of surching for his Last 2 braincells while fighting her
or just learn that her e is super fucking slow and all her attacks move at 3mm per second lmao, i say this as a person who never loses to illaoi in lane
@@thatplantmain6180 i can say it too as a person who got into league playing her but theb realizing she is really not that good and absulutly the worst champ when behind
I think that was the reason why i started playing her. When i lose hard top lane with Nasus vs Illaoi. I was destroyed. Now she is one of my top champs and i really enjoy playing her. ARAM players hate her
As a 300k mastery Illaoi I can say for certain Illaoi mid works wonders and heres how I personally do it. My runes are conq, approach velocity & boots, First strike can be better than conq in matchups you already win super hard. Like into sylas, you simply just get even more ahead. Core items EVERY GAME, Frostfire into boots into grudge into situational items or steraks. Illaoi with magical boots will have 400 ms. Combine that with the constant slow effects + approach velocity and you can run down a good chunk of champions even as Illaoi. Melee matchups mid against those meta roamer's can't escape you anymore with their stupid mobility. With this build your providing utility + AOE slows for the team activily keeping your damage dealers safer zoning off enemies. While also being able to trap people in your ult, there wont be any escape unless your victim has flash, high ms + swifties, phaserush or a dash. Because, once you get hit with that slow good luck dodging tentacle slams, aka half of Illaoi's damage which is normally dodged or kited out. Illaoi's role mid is to keep assassins stuck in lane while bullying mages who want to scale to late game. Her 2nd job is to be at every objective ready for a fight. Your effectively forcing people to dive you because they want drake and diving Illaoi is never a good idea and just what you want. Her 3rd job is to absorb as much of the enemy jungler's time as possible. Junglers always gank mid since they need to cross through it and Illaoi can 1v2 easily if set up correctly or simply get out alive. Preventing roams and having the jungler spend time mid trying to help mid is time he hasn't spent bot actually killing your ADC or tower diving your top laner. 4th job is just flat out peeling late game or mid if your too far behind. Your slows will help keep melee champions off your carry. Your ult by design makes assassins cry when used correctly. 5th job is to be team fighting whenever you can. 6th is to split push if you are mega fed or if your team refuses to group for fights. If your hyper fed just buy hullbreaker and split everytime. In the games where your fed they have a good bit of melee champs and they cant stop you once your snowballing. That's how I do it. Good luck to any aspiring Illaoi mids.
You can apply this strat to Yorick midlane for example due to low base armor on mages for every e with 4 ghouls it's half an hp bar. At 6 you got control of the lane if the midlaner has no flash it's death, tower smacking, and objective control as well. I thought about it and vs immobile mages it just makes more sense for him to be there, due to the shorter lane, sustain vs poke and excellent 2v2 at 6 onwards.
@@X33Ultras0und Ninetales has already tried it back when it was strong even against assassins, and another few high rank Yoricks I'm not sure about now tho
@@chanclanproduction imagine hitting you e one in a million times and the enemy top laner just walk away. But I also love to fuck the enemy illaoi up too, playing her too much makes it so ez to shit on that champ.
"This is a completely new style for Illaoi" Me who got her to m7 last year playing only mid: Do not cite the deep magic to me witch. I was there when it was written
Finally an off meta player that consistently streams his gameplay. Amazing vid as usual HCN Edit: Nvm Badook doesn't make content all that often, great vid nonetheless
@@carrier2823 I'm very good friends with DirtyMobs actually lol. I was mainly referring to non-meta *support* players that stream consistently, sorry for the confusion.
A trick i use with illaoi to finish enemies off when they're low HP and affected by Illaois E, you can still use ULT. The tentacles hit much faster allowing you to surprise them. It doesnt matter if they're already far away from you since they usually walk away from you, the tentacles still hit fast when you ult
if you plan to 1v1 a stronger enemy, exhaust will let you live longer and deal more damage. i could say the same with barrier and heal but it's an indirect offensive purpose. you get me?
@@JV-km9xk its more like burst, its such a amazing item for trashing on burst champs, since all their dmg comes in very fast, you can get rid of a lot of dmg though that way
A couple days ago, I actually also started taking Illaoi mid. However I go for more of a Lethality build with Duskblade. Set up tentacles just like Badook, for the same reasons, max Q and then E. The enhanced W attack procs the slow on Duskblade, which will all but guarantee that nearby tentacles will hit (as well as making the Q hit a llllot easier), even if you're not attacking their Spirit. The Slam for her tentacles also has a Total AD scaling of 110%. The base damage scales with your Q level. Hitting your E in a teamfight is super easy, since they rarely happen in lane, one so once that happens, you W in and you Ult, which *will* kill at least one person if you're fed enough. During this invisibility, if the ADC is still breathing, you commit Big Mommy Bonk on them. Oh, and did I mention, the ability haste you get merely by building assassin items is super phat on her?
Yeah thing is she dies so quickly. Illaoi is always the one focused :( you kinda need the steraks or other bruiser item to survive long enough to summon
@@ulterinio3866 you can gain dark harvest stacks from the Spirits she creates, so that's pretty noice. Sudden Impact because her W counts as a leap, and that's then 7 free Lethality, just from starting your combo. Eyeball Collection because AD is AD, and Ultimate Hunter because Ravenous is only 33% effective, *and* it has been nerfed. Also come on, Illaoi ult is pretty nutty In lane, you'll be poking with Q a lot, to chunk your opponent and push minion waves. That's why our second tree is Precision. Presence of Mind to be More Annoying™, and Coup de Grace :)
As an illaoi main, having illaoi mid is common, cause all illaoi one tricks know that walls are her best friend, and that 4 Tentacle set up is possible on sidelanes as well. Another thing is how people complain about her e, but her e is nothing but a hook, if you are able to fight her especially as other juggernauts like darius or garen then punish her for trying to e, the only time you run is when she ults, if she has no ult she's mostly useless cause you can easily dodge her tentacles, cause even if she hits your spirit the damage is reduced so as long as she doesn't hit you your very well fine
I've been one-tricking Illaoi mid for a while now and have honestly found it much more useful and satisfying than any other mid champs. Her carry potential is insane, esp. when you have the choices to go bruiser, tank etc. Being able to constantly roam and find picks helps really well with the team if they're far behind.
I was playing Illaoi mid and had something ridicules' like a 80% win rate, however I could never figure out what to do late game, but seeing this helps me develop a different build witch would be more beneficial for me, it also annoying bc everyone will be playing Illaoi mid for about a week. Words of advice, If you get hit by E run, If she uses ult run, and walk perpendicular to the tentacles and you will be fine
Yeah, Illaoi is amazing. Started playing her a few weeks ago on top Lane and than switched to Mid Lane. Everyone I played with was confused, why that actually works. But I Just Love the 4 tentacle Spots in the Lane, with which you can Work really Well. Got a 80-85% WR on her with around 40 Games. Imo the clue is to Work with the tentacles as much as possible.
I just want go thank you man. I was never very good playing meta picks, but you gave me the inspiration. I have seen every single one of your off meta videos. It inspired me so much, that i actually invented new strategy. I just started a new acount cause my last one got banned for trolling. That was when i was just testing my strategy and i did not exactly knew what was i doing. Now i am playing nocturne with lethal thempo on mid. Full damage with cooldown boots and axiomic arc. I changed him from fighter to assasin.
As an Illaoi main this is pretty cool. And yes, The second Illaoi gets ult you will lose. Not even the jg can help you. In fact how her ult works, a jg gank gives her another tentacle and that gives her more damage and the potential to get a double kill with zero effort.
@@lilsylvest3865 you're only trying it now??? that happens when you never use reddit's illaoi sub. You probably don't even know that it doesn't matter if you q or e max on first strike
Illaoi main here. I am genuinely not joking, I am 90% sure that the majority of illaoi mains converted because they got domed by an illaoi one trick top lane. its EXACTLY what I did on her. I got totally destroyed, got pissed off, and took her top. Now i have 100k mastery and I just got gold with a 67% wr.
Awesome content - on the Illio subreddit people were complaining about this non meta low winrate champ. Your vids show these non meta picks with people who think outside the box and its great!
I still remember my first ever vs real player game back in early S10. I locked in Tahm Kench top, enemy picked Illaoi, and I got my butt kicked three ways into next week by her and the Akali mid perma ganking me. It was why I stuck to vs ai for another 2 weeks LMFAO
remember that maxing Q on illaoi not only makes her Q stronger but the strikes from nearby tentacles also stronger, so while you can harass more frequently from E max, Q max is where the damage is
As an Illaoi onetrick, I've been experimenting with mid and I'm glad to see something with a more official standpoint. I think I prefer it to top, I feel more useful. I'd credit the wave kill into e to DirtyMobs!
Illaoi is actually the most fun matchup to vs. as Tahm. Both players are encouraged to be aggressive, the matchup swings either way based on who plays better to their win condition and none of them has some bullshit mechanic. Illaoi can poke through minions and wins short trades, but she will lose extended trades. Both champions are immobile and skillshot based, so you can't cheese your way around them with dashes. Tahm is much stronger levels 1 and 2, but because he has no waveclear and lose short trades, if he don't capitalize on it, Illaoi takes over lane control by level 3. Even there, drag trades for long enough and you can still swing the matchup around. Tahm vs Illaoi is up there with Shaco vs Lee Sin, LeBlanc vs Ahri or LeBlanc vs Zed as most fun matchups to play because its a skill matchup that can go either way. Its the type of matchup that will be won by the better player.
Getting a legendary item that perfectly fits your champion is actually stronger than going with a mythic item first. Illaoi wants to be low on HP, but not dead. Steraks gives lots of regen and a shield the more people she attacks or gets attacked by, if she's attacked by 3+ people, then you would often lose over 70% of you HP. Steraks then protects you with regen and a shield that scales with bonus HP. Then even just building the HP components of your next item will make your steraks stronger.
@@RustingPeace But getting the mythic 2nd should be better as now, you instantly get more HP for the steraks shield and HP regen + the HP from steraks also makes the immolate and slow field more effective.
@@X33Ultras0und That's how I tought too but! hear it out. You'll miss the 100HP but if you build frostfire 2nd you'll always miss something essential. Building it 3rd synergizes incredible well. Oh and btw that gets represented by wr's. Players that build it 3rd tend to have a higher wr by 1-2%
@@RustingPeace I guess if an item is too good on your champion, then mythics - as strong as they are, they can wait. I'll probably look and see if any other champion is like that.
One thing not even mentioned here is the fact that landing and successfully killing illaoi’s e gives you a small amount of gold, but even more importantly, a small amount of xp. Thus, if you consistently are able to land and kill the e, you will slowly begin to snowball and outpace every other character’s level in the game.
Thing about starting q is that it cost too much mana, staring w and then going into e and lastly maxing q is a lot better since e does the same thing as q but for 35less mana, i have been playing illaoi mid for 4 seasons now and its super good because of the pressure you put on mid champions who are not expecting to lane against a bruiser, but you get easily counter picked by any passive laners or natural threats like morde, trynd, kayle, quin, anivia, ahri, syndra. but it stomps against all ad mid and slow casters, also you loe getting ganked since you'll have great tentacle coverage for it, gl hope this helps
Correction: Illaoi don't has good mana sustain, in fact she burns her mana pretty quickly, so that's why he goes for presence of mind + corrupt potion, so that you dont run out of mana in the first rotation of skills
I've been playing Illaoi mid for arround a month now, 10 games with 100% winrate, i can definitely approve that just taking one soul gives you a guaranteed victory as the mid lane champs are way less tanky
I've been running into an interesting strategy for a few games now, my team mates have been trying to win the game by throwing constantly and pinging "?" or "Alive" whenever they die in the river. They are yet to reach challenger but I feel they are up to something considering you wouldn't expect such a strat to win you games.
Don't forget that Illaoi's w in melee range is an auto reset instead of a leap (cc resistant?) But also, if you are blinded by a teemo back up and leap instead of melee w and it should hit.
I can say I have used this more than a few times in the same exact way starting q and then w. It’s extremely fun and you can punish almost anyone with this strat.
That's literally the same mindset I had for maining old Mordekaiser. From the auto fill to top main and for being stomped while playing Garen. That's kinda creepy
I always loved Illaoi, thought my off meta pick was Illoi support. Incredible poke, even if ganked your R allows you to counter the 3/4 v 2 and just take lots of damage as your adc farms peacefully. Gotta find a way to make her master tho
Bro i LITERALLY played this exact strategy like 3 years ago after playing illaoi top and thinking "my tentacles are too far apart, lemme go mid lane where i can literally get 4 tentacles in close range and bully poor mages. I swear probably matched against him in mid and he adopted my style. I was one of the like 4 people playing illaoi mid for like 3 years .
Illaoi simply needs to not have her tentacles be a passive that she can't control, slightly quicker animation speed, and she can become top tier. I really feel its the only thing holding her back. Because of that stupid passive, its always "No tentacles when you need it" or "Tentacles spawn at wrong place". Sure you can adjust the place they spawn by hugging certain walls, but they are often dangerous positions for enemy to engage on you.
Well, it’s true. If you dodge E as a range champ (Cassio, Akshan, Lucian, Vayne) OR AD fighter (Riven, Fiora, Yasuo, Yone) Illaoi is basically a 300 gold big CS
Bois I have found the hidden tech that is fun af. go lethality gnar phase rush->nimbus cloak celerity->gathering storm secondary is up to you but I generally go resolve tree with conditioning and overgrowth to make up for mini gnar's squishiness and give more survivability for mega. Another tree that you can try out is the inspiration tree with hexflash and depending on the match up you can go time warp tonic for more sustain in lane, generally, I like to go approach velocity but also cosmic insight is decent if you pair it with cdr boots which makes it so that you can flash r a lot more. the starting items are long sword and refillable, you are just trying to survive lane poke with q and try to get as much cs as possible. gnar is pretty safe and with phase rush and e it makes him much safer and makes him annoying to trade against with because of phase rush and 3 w proc which makes you super fast meaning you can kite out most champs. Never use E aggressively in mini gnar it has a long cd and makes him super easy to kill. I need to experiment with it a bit more during laning phase and mid to late game but its super fun at least imo.
I got to Silver 1 with Aphelios top today, and now I feel like I'm gonna waste my blue essence on buying illaoi to further derank myself to bronze again Thanks Chime :DD
That can actually really happen.... Players that played 1-50 matches with her have an wr smth like 47%. While players that played over 300 matches have an wr almost as high as 60%. She even gets nerfed when she has a 51%wr because otps have an wr too high and gets only buffed when her wr has 47%
i tries first strike illaoi. maybe i wasnt using it properly or something but the lost damage andhealing of conq really affected. i was noticing the lost dmg and healing so clearly. conq really shines on illaoi and, for me it is the only rune which works properly on illaoi
I love Illaoi and didn't start having enough luck with her until I started building full tank Illaoi with Frostfire Guantlet. It's such a good item on her and seeing the tentacle box of doom is too inspiring.
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sadg, not talking a second about dirty mobs ;( the goat challanger main, also plays this champ mid sometimes
Bro literally did the "If you can't beat them, join them"
The reason I started maining Teemo lul
That's why in season 1 I started playing Mundo. Neigh impossible to kill back then as his healing was much stronger and force of nature was also insane.
and thats why i quit teemo freaking dog water champion
@@Ikimono and now he got nerfed with his rework
@@sirpeterbaum4695 thats a little too far even the dark side is disgusted
I always get a small glimmer of hope from these videos that even though the featured player has thousands of hours into that champ, I can just use this video as a guide play a champ like Illaoi for the first time ever in a ranked game, and just easily stomp.... unfortunately my hope is always quickly shattered and my teammates are quick to flame when I am 0-4 two minutes into the first game.
That said... we queueing Illaoi mid today boys!
The god has descended , and boy will he deliver!
Do us naked Eskimos proud.
Best of luck soilder.
Ye illaoi is kinda (before 6) a Canon minion with sums. Sh eis only string when the guy playing her is a otp 5m Master points, or if the player shes playing against is doing the dificult task of surching for his Last 2 braincells while fighting her
That's exactly how I feel about pretty much every one of these videos. AD Akali was super fun
The absolute mindset xD
Can no longer lose hard to Illaoi, if you yourself is *THE ILLAOI MAIN*
or just learn that her e is super fucking slow and all her attacks move at 3mm per second lmao, i say this as a person who never loses to illaoi in lane
@@thatplantmain6180 i can say it too as a person who got into league playing her but theb realizing she is really not that good and absulutly the worst champ when behind
@@lironr10 I dont agree , if they disrespect ur E u can kill always if u have ult
@Hidetaka Miyazaki Meanwhile Yorick gets dominated by champs that get dominated by her...
I think that was the reason why i started playing her. When i lose hard top lane with Nasus vs Illaoi. I was destroyed. Now she is one of my top champs and i really enjoy playing her. ARAM players hate her
As a 300k mastery Illaoi I can say for certain Illaoi mid works wonders and heres how I personally do it.
My runes are conq, approach velocity & boots, First strike can be better than conq in matchups you already win super hard. Like into sylas, you simply just get even more ahead. Core items EVERY GAME, Frostfire into boots into grudge into situational items or steraks.
Illaoi with magical boots will have 400 ms. Combine that with the constant slow effects + approach velocity and you can run down a good chunk of champions even as Illaoi. Melee matchups mid against those meta roamer's can't escape you anymore with their stupid mobility.
With this build your providing utility + AOE slows for the team activily keeping your damage dealers safer zoning off enemies. While also being able to trap people in your ult, there wont be any escape unless your victim has flash, high ms + swifties, phaserush or a dash. Because, once you get hit with that slow good luck dodging tentacle slams, aka half of Illaoi's damage which is normally dodged or kited out.
Illaoi's role mid is to keep assassins stuck in lane while bullying mages who want to scale to late game. Her 2nd job is to be at every objective ready for a fight. Your effectively forcing people to dive you because they want drake and diving Illaoi is never a good idea and just what you want. Her 3rd job is to absorb as much of the enemy jungler's time as possible. Junglers always gank mid since they need to cross through it and Illaoi can 1v2 easily if set up correctly or simply get out alive. Preventing roams and having the jungler spend time mid trying to help mid is time he hasn't spent bot actually killing your ADC or tower diving your top laner. 4th job is just flat out peeling late game or mid if your too far behind. Your slows will help keep melee champions off your carry. Your ult by design makes assassins cry when used correctly. 5th job is to be team fighting whenever you can. 6th is to split push if you are mega fed or if your team refuses to group for fights. If your hyper fed just buy hullbreaker and split everytime. In the games where your fed they have a good bit of melee champs and they cant stop you once your snowballing.
That's how I do it. Good luck to any aspiring Illaoi mids.
cringe champ
@@tocaplayzsl honestly
Thanks for the adivce I'ma try this out. The aporoach velocity sould work wonders.
@@savetheself8 Happy to help any other Illaoi players out there
y grudge when ur autos slow with frostfire already, and q
Illaoi mid when the enemy mid is Vel'Koz: "FINALLY, A WORTHY OPPONENT! OUR BATTLE WILL BE LEGENDARY!"
knowledge through.... tenticlintegration
Cringe lane
You can apply this strat to Yorick midlane for example due to low base armor on mages for every e with 4 ghouls it's half an hp bar. At 6 you got control of the lane if the midlaner has no flash it's death, tower smacking, and objective control as well. I thought about it and vs immobile mages it just makes more sense for him to be there, due to the shorter lane, sustain vs poke and excellent 2v2 at 6 onwards.
Amazing. Too bad yorick mains won't do anything about this strength though.
@@X33Ultras0und with hulk breaker in the scenery they dont nee they just can rush it andnthe build a mythic and slit their ass off
@@X33Ultras0und Ninetales has already tried it back when it was strong even against assassins, and another few high rank Yoricks
I'm not sure about now tho
I will try this and int brb.
@@LunarEdge7 Now is too different to back when. So that can't count now as evidence now.
As a illaoi main that has reached grandmaster, I absolutely love to see my champion getting some love from this channel.
Bro as a challenger players who plays Illaoi she just feels so DOG when people just know to walk away
@@chanclanproduction i was gonna say she should get a slow when she ults so they can’t walk away but realized how cancerous that would be
@@chanclanproduction imagine hitting you e one in a million times and the enemy top laner just walk away. But I also love to fuck the enemy illaoi up too, playing her too much makes it so ez to shit on that champ.
Let me guess you sold your acc too after you had no time for playing?
@@Jangz_ you can't give her any cc cause then she would become like ssssssss tear
"This is a completely new style for Illaoi"
Me who got her to m7 last year playing only mid:
Do not cite the deep magic to me witch. I was there when it was written
Where is that quote from
@@Jynx9921 Narnia, Aslan says it.
Did u reach master with her though?
@@whyhe11othere fair enough lol
Cringe
Finally an off meta player that consistently streams his gameplay. Amazing vid as usual HCN
Edit: Nvm Badook doesn't make content all that often, great vid nonetheless
Go check out dirtymobs for really good illaoi content. Illaoi mid is very similar to illaoi top and he’s been challenger a few times
@@carrier2823 I'm very good friends with DirtyMobs actually lol. I was mainly referring to non-meta *support* players that stream consistently, sorry for the confusion.
@@carrier2823 lmao its not similar at all
@@carrier2823 Definitely not similar..
@@sirmatic2776 oh you are? I love to watch dirtymobs but hate to face the champs he plays lol
A trick i use with illaoi to finish enemies off when they're low HP and affected by Illaois E, you can still use ULT. The tentacles hit much faster allowing you to surprise them. It doesnt matter if they're already far away from you since they usually walk away from you, the tentacles still hit fast when you ult
Yo chimes! Exhaust doesnt reduce resistances since patch 7.5. Just wanted to let you know ^^
where did he say that? You can deal more damage while they are slowed (So they can't escape) , and he said it reduces damage not resistancces?
8:25
Exhaust doesn't reduce resistances since like season 6. I wish it still did, but it's a purely defensive spell with a slow atached.
I mean it can still be offensive, since you reduce their omnivamp, if they have it
if you plan to 1v1 a stronger enemy, exhaust will let you live longer and deal more damage. i could say the same with barrier and heal but it's an indirect offensive purpose. you get me?
@@JV-km9xk its more like burst, its such a amazing item for trashing on burst champs, since all their dmg comes in very fast, you can get rid of a lot of dmg though that way
The tobias off meta sigma grindset
A couple days ago, I actually also started taking Illaoi mid. However I go for more of a Lethality build with Duskblade. Set up tentacles just like Badook, for the same reasons, max Q and then E. The enhanced W attack procs the slow on Duskblade, which will all but guarantee that nearby tentacles will hit (as well as making the Q hit a llllot easier), even if you're not attacking their Spirit.
The Slam for her tentacles also has a Total AD scaling of 110%. The base damage scales with your Q level. Hitting your E in a teamfight is super easy, since they rarely happen in lane, one so once that happens, you W in and you Ult, which *will* kill at least one person if you're fed enough. During this invisibility, if the ADC is still breathing, you commit Big Mommy Bonk on them. Oh, and did I mention, the ability haste you get merely by building assassin items is super phat on her?
that actually sounds fire, what runes you play on her?
Yeah thing is she dies so quickly. Illaoi is always the one focused :( you kinda need the steraks or other bruiser item to survive long enough to summon
@@ulterinio3866 you can gain dark harvest stacks from the Spirits she creates, so that's pretty noice. Sudden Impact because her W counts as a leap, and that's then 7 free Lethality, just from starting your combo. Eyeball Collection because AD is AD, and Ultimate Hunter because Ravenous is only 33% effective, *and* it has been nerfed. Also come on, Illaoi ult is pretty nutty
In lane, you'll be poking with Q a lot, to chunk your opponent and push minion waves. That's why our second tree is Precision. Presence of Mind to be More Annoying™, and Coup de Grace :)
@@nh2565 mid, she's not as focused. Besides, that's why you wait with ult until you find yourself getting three-wayed by opponent jungler
@@jetblackchamp thanks brother, gonna try it today
Mmmh, yes, hatred. The perfect motivator when you don't have a mate to try Singed Yuumi botlane.
As an illaoi main, having illaoi mid is common, cause all illaoi one tricks know that walls are her best friend, and that 4 Tentacle set up is possible on sidelanes as well. Another thing is how people complain about her e, but her e is nothing but a hook, if you are able to fight her especially as other juggernauts like darius or garen then punish her for trying to e, the only time you run is when she ults, if she has no ult she's mostly useless cause you can easily dodge her tentacles, cause even if she hits your spirit the damage is reduced so as long as she doesn't hit you your very well fine
I've been one-tricking Illaoi mid for a while now and have honestly found it much more useful and satisfying than any other mid champs. Her carry potential is insane, esp. when you have the choices to go bruiser, tank etc. Being able to constantly roam and find picks helps really well with the team if they're far behind.
I was playing Illaoi mid and had something ridicules' like a 80% win rate, however I could never figure out what to do late game, but seeing this helps me develop a different build witch would be more beneficial for me, it also annoying bc everyone will be playing Illaoi mid for about a week.
Words of advice, If you get hit by E run, If she uses ult run, and walk perpendicular to the tentacles and you will be fine
Yeah, Illaoi is amazing.
Started playing her a few weeks ago on top Lane and than switched to Mid Lane. Everyone I played with was confused, why that actually works.
But I Just Love the 4 tentacle Spots in the Lane, with which you can Work really Well.
Got a 80-85% WR on her with around 40 Games.
Imo the clue is to Work with the tentacles as much as possible.
not even gonna mention my man dirty mobs. he literally came up with most of the illaoi strats presented here
I just want go thank you man. I was never very good playing meta picks, but you gave me the inspiration. I have seen every single one of your off meta videos. It inspired me so much, that i actually invented new strategy. I just started a new acount cause my last one got banned for trolling. That was when i was just testing my strategy and i did not exactly knew what was i doing. Now i am playing nocturne with lethal thempo on mid. Full damage with cooldown boots and axiomic arc. I changed him from fighter to assasin.
As an Illaoi main this is pretty cool. And yes, The second Illaoi gets ult you will lose. Not even the jg can help you. In fact how her ult works, a jg gank gives her another tentacle and that gives her more damage and the potential to get a double kill with zero effort.
Me, who played Illaoi since release: *Excitement*
felt that been not feeling top lane illoai atm so might try mid
@@lilsylvest3865 you're only trying it now??? that happens when you never use reddit's illaoi sub. You probably don't even know that it doesn't matter if you q or e max on first strike
Illaoi main here. I am genuinely not joking, I am 90% sure that the majority of illaoi mains converted because they got domed by an illaoi one trick top lane. its EXACTLY what I did on her. I got totally destroyed, got pissed off, and took her top. Now i have 100k mastery and I just got gold with a 67% wr.
Awesome content - on the Illio subreddit people were complaining about this non meta low winrate champ. Your vids show these non meta picks with people who think outside the box and its great!
The “Tobias fate” incident
I still remember my first ever vs real player game back in early S10. I locked in Tahm Kench top, enemy picked Illaoi, and I got my butt kicked three ways into next week by her and the Akali mid perma ganking me. It was why I stuck to vs ai for another 2 weeks LMFAO
remember that maxing Q on illaoi not only makes her Q stronger but the strikes from nearby tentacles also stronger, so while you can harass more frequently from E max, Q max is where the damage is
As an Illaoi onetrick, I've been experimenting with mid and I'm glad to see something with a more official standpoint. I think I prefer it to top, I feel more useful. I'd credit the wave kill into e to DirtyMobs!
Bro i was a young lad and WATCHED this and become a full grown sasquatch. Thanks HAPPYCHIMENOISES, i'm a PROBLEM TO SOCIETY!
6:51 that triple tentacle smash was so satisfying
I love the alien chime artwork, especially the art one! good stuff!!!
The best annie player EUW goes support with shureliyas or moonstone with aery, you gotta make a vid about him.
What's their name?
nah, EU is whack
@@HappyChimeNoises Karmani Code
I commend you for being a chad who marks the ad part so people can skip it.
I can't wait to get the Illaoi mid in my gold plat ranked games! Thanks Chime! Now that I think about it.. I can't beat Illaoi either.. Hmm!
Illaoi is actually the most fun matchup to vs. as Tahm. Both players are encouraged to be aggressive, the matchup swings either way based on who plays better to their win condition and none of them has some bullshit mechanic. Illaoi can poke through minions and wins short trades, but she will lose extended trades. Both champions are immobile and skillshot based, so you can't cheese your way around them with dashes. Tahm is much stronger levels 1 and 2, but because he has no waveclear and lose short trades, if he don't capitalize on it, Illaoi takes over lane control by level 3. Even there, drag trades for long enough and you can still swing the matchup around.
Tahm vs Illaoi is up there with Shaco vs Lee Sin, LeBlanc vs Ahri or LeBlanc vs Zed as most fun matchups to play because its a skill matchup that can go either way. Its the type of matchup that will be won by the better player.
@@Maddoxoxox they reworked him, he doesn't do that anymore. And he really isn't a tank anymore
@@Maddoxoxox Not completly
Getting a legendary item that perfectly fits your champion is actually stronger than going with a mythic item first.
Illaoi wants to be low on HP, but not dead. Steraks gives lots of regen and a shield the more people she attacks or gets attacked by, if she's attacked by 3+ people, then you would often lose over 70% of you HP. Steraks then protects you with regen and a shield that scales with bonus HP. Then even just building the HP components of your next item will make your steraks stronger.
Death Dance synergizes with her extremly too. I would even recommend building frostfire gauntlets 3rd.
@@RustingPeace But getting the mythic 2nd should be better as now, you instantly get more HP for the steraks shield and HP regen + the HP from steraks also makes the immolate and slow field more effective.
@@X33Ultras0und That's how I tought too but! hear it out.
You'll miss the 100HP but if you build frostfire 2nd you'll always miss something essential. Building it 3rd synergizes incredible well. Oh and btw that gets represented by wr's. Players that build it 3rd tend to have a higher wr by 1-2%
@@RustingPeace I guess if an item is too good on your champion, then mythics - as strong as they are, they can wait. I'll probably look and see if any other champion is like that.
"If they're so broken when dont YOU play it" our dude took that personally
Are you kidding me I was actually thinking about to do this to climb
It's really old
I tought this video was about tobias fate ngl
One thing not even mentioned here is the fact that landing and successfully killing illaoi’s e gives you a small amount of gold, but even more importantly, a small amount of xp. Thus, if you consistently are able to land and kill the e, you will slowly begin to snowball and outpace every other character’s level in the game.
Thing about starting q is that it cost too much mana, staring w and then going into e and lastly maxing q is a lot better since e does the same thing as q but for 35less mana, i have been playing illaoi mid for 4 seasons now and its super good because of the pressure you put on mid champions who are not expecting to lane against a bruiser, but you get easily counter picked by any passive laners or natural threats like morde, trynd, kayle, quin, anivia, ahri, syndra. but it stomps against all ad mid and slow casters, also you loe getting ganked since you'll have great tentacle coverage for it, gl hope this helps
Correction: Illaoi don't has good mana sustain, in fact she burns her mana pretty quickly, so that's why he goes for presence of mind + corrupt potion, so that you dont run out of mana in the first rotation of skills
For mana I should have been more clear - illaoi needs 1 ability to kill the wave, so overall her mana costs are lower than most mids
As a Illaoi main and i starring to play some league again i want to say this is going to be fun.
That hit box at 3:41, Jesus man.
there was a time I played alot Illaoi support, her kit is not even good for a support, but works very well for peeling the ADC.
a guy called slaleph got to masters playing Zoe support (dark harvest) with a sion adc. You should make a video!
I've been playing Illaoi mid for arround a month now, 10 games with 100% winrate, i can definitely approve that just taking one soul gives you a guaranteed victory as the mid lane champs are way less tanky
I've been running into an interesting strategy for a few games now, my team mates have been trying to win the game by throwing constantly and pinging "?" or "Alive" whenever they die in the river. They are yet to reach challenger but I feel they are up to something considering you wouldn't expect such a strat to win you games.
That displate link was clutch for my Xmas gifts ty
Damn I was hoping Illaoi Mid was gonna be my ticket onto this channel. T_T Heartbreaking. Good video as always!
Bro the illaoi that did this to him made him his villain Arc
Don't forget that Illaoi's w in melee range is an auto reset instead of a leap (cc resistant?) But also, if you are blinded by a teemo back up and leap instead of melee w and it should hit.
Perfect timing I just started maining Illaoi
As an illaoi otp this video is all I needed to see
still waiting for the yummi jungle one trick
one of the most unique styles ive seen
These strats are soo much fun!
S12 might be harder. The new Cosmic drive and anti burst mage item promotes the champions she has worst match up against.
I can say I have used this more than a few times in the same exact way starting q and then w. It’s extremely fun and you can punish almost anyone with this strat.
illaoi mid is so fun im glad people actually play it
I love seeing shit I have played for MONTHS showing up on this channel. Cus I get to steal the better version of it to slap people even harder >:)
That's literally the same mindset I had for maining old Mordekaiser. From the auto fill to top main and for being stomped while playing Garen. That's kinda creepy
I feel like this will be a pick like Lee Sin mid or Wukong support that actually became meta in the near future.
Wukong supp was never meta
bruh illaoi mid have a 53% winrate in all ranks
I remember when I like playing Illaoi mid. My problem with Illaoi has always been that she relies too much in the tentacles and I hate that.
You know what Friday means! A Chime video! Thanks, as always, Chime =]
thank you chimes for teaching me so much about Illaoi! I didn't know shit before and I was just staying away from them/losing to them haha
I always loved Illaoi, thought my off meta pick was Illoi support. Incredible poke, even if ganked your R allows you to counter the 3/4 v 2 and just take lots of damage as your adc farms peacefully. Gotta find a way to make her master tho
You could play that with an sivir adc that runs first strike.
Especially with her waveclear you have an easy time fishing for e's
as someone who plays all sorts of champions as off meta supports, I have to agree that illaoi support is really fun.
Bro i LITERALLY played this exact strategy like 3 years ago after playing illaoi top and thinking "my tentacles are too far apart, lemme go mid lane where i can literally get 4 tentacles in close range and bully poor mages. I swear probably matched against him in mid and he adopted my style. I was one of the like 4 people playing illaoi mid for like 3 years .
paradise prime?
Illaoi simply needs to not have her tentacles be a passive that she can't control, slightly quicker animation speed, and she can become top tier. I really feel its the only thing holding her back. Because of that stupid passive, its always "No tentacles when you need it" or "Tentacles spawn at wrong place". Sure you can adjust the place they spawn by hugging certain walls, but they are often dangerous positions for enemy to engage on you.
I actually played this when I first started and it was actually pretty good. I should try again sometime
Are you perhaps interested on our god and savior nagakaborous?
Is there anyone else that makes videos like these? They are really cool and I want to find more like em!
Displate steals art from online artists without crediting them 🗣
Need a Sett video !! Love the content man
Back at it again with another banger! I play Illaoi top. Never really consider taking her mid. Interesting!
I’ve been running Lethaoi Mid for two seasons. I have issues with ranged mid-matchupsI also picked up Illaoi from queuing top.
this entire video is what turned Tobias Fate into a wanna be Illaoi mid main with 30% winrate, so sad
I think the most baffling thing I learned from this is that Illaoi's initial E cast doesn't proc towers, that's actually nuts
it doesn't do any initial damage so why would it take aggro? you need to hit the soul with stuff for the champ to take damage
Hoping for an off meta Bard soon! Stuff like this is so entertaining to watch
Illaoi mid might get played in LCS because apparently it’s in Fudge’s pocket against short range hard engage comps.
Garen rolled by Illaoi back when each spin counted as an attack to clear the spirit....
There are actually multiple Illaoi mid in master+
Even LS plays that
Badook mentioned LS as one of his inspirations
2:54 "her biggest strength is her 1v1 power"
boi
I remember this one vid that was like "iLlaOi bAd, JusSt doDge E" lol
Well, it’s true. If you dodge E as a range champ (Cassio, Akshan, Lucian, Vayne) OR AD fighter (Riven, Fiora, Yasuo, Yone) Illaoi is basically a 300 gold big CS
Bois I have found the hidden tech that is fun af. go lethality gnar phase rush->nimbus cloak celerity->gathering storm secondary is up to you but I generally go resolve tree with conditioning and overgrowth to make up for mini gnar's squishiness and give more survivability for mega. Another tree that you can try out is the inspiration tree with hexflash and depending on the match up you can go time warp tonic for more sustain in lane, generally, I like to go approach velocity but also cosmic insight is decent if you pair it with cdr boots which makes it so that you can flash r a lot more. the starting items are long sword and refillable, you are just trying to survive lane poke with q and try to get as much cs as possible. gnar is pretty safe and with phase rush and e it makes him much safer and makes him annoying to trade against with because of phase rush and 3 w proc which makes you super fast meaning you can kite out most champs. Never use E aggressively in mini gnar it has a long cd and makes him super easy to kill. I need to experiment with it a bit more during laning phase and mid to late game but its super fun at least imo.
Remember when e lasted for 60 seconds on enemy champs
THIS is going to get me to play league again
I got to Silver 1 with Aphelios top today, and now I feel like I'm gonna waste my blue essence on buying illaoi to further derank myself to bronze again
Thanks Chime :DD
That can actually really happen....
Players that played 1-50 matches with her have an wr smth like 47%. While players that played over 300 matches have an wr almost as high as 60%.
She even gets nerfed when she has a 51%wr because otps have an wr too high and gets only buffed when her wr has 47%
3:40 literally me in season 6 when i started
THIS IS WHY I FOUGHT ILLAOI MID YESTERDAY
Maybe the person already played that?
i sent this video to my duo who mains Illaoi, let's see if he wants to destroy mid as well
Dirtymobs deja vu from watching this video. Nice work
Tentacle nightmare grown real...
i tries first strike illaoi. maybe i wasnt using it properly or something but the lost damage andhealing of conq really affected. i was noticing the lost dmg and healing so clearly. conq really shines on illaoi and, for me it is the only rune which works properly on illaoi
I'm speechless to see you cover Illaoi Mid. I thought it was just my idea. :}
BRO NO YOU CANNOT REVEAL MY SECRET TECH
This is how I also got into Illaoi.
Next vid: how a yummy jungle got master. LOL
I love Illaoi and didn't start having enough luck with her until I started building full tank Illaoi with Frostfire Guantlet. It's such a good item on her and seeing the tentacle box of doom is too inspiring.