Illaoi

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Teach ‘Em a Harsh Lesson

Lane sustain, pressure, and item scaling.

Inspiration

Creative tools and rule bending

Kleptomancy

Your first 2 attacks after using an ability on champions grants gold and sometimes consumables.
Perfect Timing

Gain a free stopwatch. Stopwatch has a one time use Stasis active.
Biscuit Delivery

Get a free biscuit every 3 minutes, until 12 minutes. Biscuits heal and permanently increase your max mana.
Cosmic Insight

+5% CDR
+5% Max CDR
+5% Summoner Spell CDR
+5% Item CDR

Domination

Burst damage and target access

Taste of Blood

Recover health when you damage an enemy champion.
Ravenous Hunter

Heal for a percentage of damage dealt with your abilities. Increases with each unique takedown.

Offense

+1-10% CDR
Flex

+5 Armor or 6 MR (match-up)
Defense

+15-90 Health

WhyKleptomancy

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.

WhyPerfect Timing

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.

WhyBiscuit Delivery

Biscuit Delivery on Illaoi allows you to repeatedly take aggressive trades in lane to wear down your opponent.

WhyCosmic Insight

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.

WhyTaste of Blood

Taste of Blood empowers your ability to trade early and often with fantastic lane sustain.

WhyRavenous Hunter

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.