Teach ‘Em a Harsh Lesson
First Strike
Attacks or abilities against an enemy champion within 0.25s of entering champion combat grant 10 gold and First Strike for 3 seconds, causing you to deal
7% extradamage against champions, and granting50% (35% for ranged champions) of bonus damage dealt asgold .
Cooldown:25 - 15 sWhy?
Illaoi is one of the few melee champions who can reliably proc Kleptomancy in short trades. Her [W] allows her to quickly proc the effect for extra gold and sustain.
Triple Tonic
Upon reaching level 3, gain an Elixir of Avarice.
Upon reaching level 6, gain an Elixir of Force.
Upon reaching level 9, gain an Elixir of Skill.Why?
Perfect Timing is an incredible rune choice on Illaoi as the one-time stasis can be enough to turn a 1v2 and snowball a lead. **TIP:** When getting ganked and looking to 1v2, use your abilities, then use Stopwatch so that your abilities come back up when you come out of stasis and can behind dealing damage/healing again.
Biscuit Delivery
Biscuit Delivery: Gain a Total Biscuit of Everlasting Will every 2 mins, until 6 min.
Biscuits restore 12% of your missing health. Consuming or selling a Biscuit permanently increases your max health by 30.Why?
Biscuit Delivery on Illaoi allows you to repeatedly take aggressive trades in lane to wear down your opponent.
Cosmic Insight
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18 Summoner Spell Haste
+10 Item HasteWhy?
Cosmic Insight's Summoner Cooldown is especially useful on top laners who heavily rely on Teleport advantage timing. The majority of Illaoi's damage comes from her abilities so CDR means more damage.
Taste of Blood
Heal when you damage an enemy champion.
Healing: 16-40 (+0.1 bonus AD, +0.05 AP) health (based on level)
Cooldown: 20sWhy?
Taste of Blood empowers your ability to trade early and often with fantastic lane sustain.
Treasure Hunter
Gain an additional
50 gold the next time you collect a Bounty Hunter stack. Increase the gold gained by20 gold for each Bounty Hunter stack, up to130 gold .
Bounty Hunter stacks are earned the first time you get a takedown on each enemy champion.Why?
Ravenous Hunter's extra bit of Spell Vamp is incredibly strong when paired with Illaoi's high base damage on her abilities and Tentacle Slams, allows you to do sustain through any incoming damage while you blow up the enemy team.
