Top 5 Builds for Illaoi

Illaoi, the Kraken Priestess is among the most OP champions in LoL. She is a straight-up Top-lane monster, beating everyone down with her tentacles. Her 1v1, 1v2 and 1v3 potential are insane and her laning phase is quite simple. You can easily zone out your enemy laner and get lots of free poke with your E.

She has only a few counters, and that only if the enemy is really skilled. Her passive summons periodically tentacles near terrain. They can be commanded to attack by Illoi’s other abilities. Her Q passively increases tentacle damage, while actively smashing a tentacle in front of her.

Her W makes her leap to an enemy and deal bonus damage while causing nearby tentacles to attack the target. Her E pulls out an enemy champion’s soul and a percentage of damage dealt to the soul is reflected to the champion; if the champion leaves E’s range, its soul returns and it is slowed while spawning additional tentacles and causing nearby tentacles to attack. Her R deals damage in an area around Illaoi, spawning one untargetable tentacle for each enemy champion hit.

Build 1-The classic build

It is good for shredding armor, lots of AD, MR and sustain in team fights

Item build (cost-16 400 gold)

Starting items:

• Corrupting Potion

Early build:

• Phage→ Kindlegem→ Black Cleaver

• Boots of speed→ Mercury's Treads

Core build:

• Sterak's Gage

• Death's Dance

• Spirit Visage

• Guardian Angel

Alternative items:

• Trinity Force

• Dead Man's Plate

Ability order:

early: Q-E-W-E

late: max E

        max Q

        max R

        max W

Runes:

PRECISION - Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace

DOMINATION - Taste of Blood, Ravenous Hunter

Bonus:

+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)

+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)

+6 Armor

Build 2-Full Tank Illaoi (Armor)

You sacrifice damage to be virtually invincible. As a frontline champion you will be able to withstand more damage and protect your teammates. This one is specifically good against an AD team.

Item build (cost-15 600 gold)

Starting items:

• Corrupting Potion

Early build:

• Spectre’s Cowl→Kindlegem→ Spirit Visage

• Boots of Speed→ Ninja Tabi

Core build:

• Sterak's Gage

• Thornmail

• Iceborn Gauntlet

• Dead Man's Plate

Alternative items:

• Randuin's Omen

• Guardian Angel

Ability order:

early: Q-E-W-E

late: max E

        max Q

        max R

        max W

Runes:

PRECISION - Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace

DOMINATION - Taste of Blood, Ravenous Hunter

Bonus:

+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)

+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)

+6 Armor

Build 3-Full AD

A lot of damage and lethality make Illaoi 1-shot the enemy, whoever that is. It also brings mana, CD and quite a lot of health.

Item build (cost-12 600 gold)

Starting items:

• Corrupting Potion

Early build:

• Tear of the Goddess→ Pickaxe→ Manamune

• Boots of Speed→ Ionian Boots of Lucidity

Core build:

• Death's Dance

• Sterak's Gage

• Youmuu's Ghostblade

• Edge of Night

Ability order:

early: Q-E-W-E

late: max E

        max Q

        max R

        max W

Runes:

PRECISION - Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace

DOMINATION - Taste of Blood, Ravenous Hunter

Bonus:

+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)

+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)

+6 Armor

Build 4-Tank MR Illaoi

Perfect against MR teams, like Morde+Fizz+Nida+Lux/Brand, while still having damage.

Item build (cost-15 400 gold)

Starting items:

• Corrupting Potion

Early build:

• Spectre’s Cowl→Kindlegem→ Spirit Visage

• Boots of Speed→ Mercury’s Treads

Core build:

• Abyssal Mask

• Sterak's Gage

• Adaptive Helm

• Gargoyle Stoneplate

Alternative items:

• Randuin's Omen

• Guardian Angel

• Dead Man's Plate

Ability order:

early: Q-E-W-E

late: max E

        max Q

        max R

        max W

Runes:

PRECISION - Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace

DOMINATION - Taste of Blood, Ravenous Hunter

Bonus:

+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)

+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)

+6 Armor

Build 5-An odd, but very annoying build

Combining AD, AP and health armor items is an interesting choice. Since tentacles’ damage also scales with 40% of AP, Liandry’s is a good item, The rest give lots of damage and lethality.

Item build (cost-15 300 gold)

Starting items:

• Corrupting Potion

Early build:

• Phage→ Kindlegem→ Black Cleaver

• Boots of Speed→ Ninja Tabi

Core build:

• Liandry's Torment

• Lord Dominik's Regards

• Umbral Glaive

• Youmuu's Ghostblade

Alternative items:

• Adaptive Helm

• Randuin's Omen

Ability order:

early: Q-E-W-E

late: max E

        max Q

        max R

        max W

Runes:

PRECISION - Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace

DOMINATION - Taste of Blood, Ravenous Hunter

Bonus:

+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)

+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)

+6 Armor

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