If we're not banning Darius/Illaoi, what do we ban? 😕

Illaoi: tries to do anything Enemy champ: Haha you didn't expect me to use my ultimate ability WALKING AWAY

the worst part is that illaoi's voice lines shout for you to "learn!", and for a while it felt like she was taunting me... but no, you just learn and never lose again. It's that easy huh

"Illaoi is the worst champ in the game" Illaoi proceeds to Pentakill the entire Bronze division simultaneously...

Me as a top laner: Oh! I know how to fight illaoi and darius now! Team: Don't mind us. Just giving a friendly donation to Darius and Illaoi if you don't mind.

As a top laner i wouldn't be so silly to use a ban on illaoi, that's what dodging is for lol

All league guides: Just smash them. Me and my team: Used as examples in these videos.

Skillcapped: Darius is not that good Meanwhile FNC Adam in the LEC

I legit though Illaoi was OP... I'm gonna start ganking her more ofter

Skill Capped in 2030: "Why taking nexus is losing you games"

What i would need is also explaining how could that illaoi or darius (in high elo) win

"Illaoi is the worst champion in the game" Me an Illaoi main *sad tentacle noices*

This was a REALLY GREAT idea for a new content type. I feel like I lose so much percentage in games because I just do not know what all 150 champions in the game are trying to do, so I just lose lanes I should have won because of lack of game knowledge. It would be great to see this same type of content for other low-elo stomper champions (Yi, Draven, Teemo, Zed, etc.) so I could have an actual game plan instead of just playing super safe and never going in because I lost the first trade at level 1 like the low-elo Ornn in this video.

I've been saying this for so long. As an illaoi main, it is so difficult to explain to low Elo players why she is so bad, cause if you play incorrectly into her she seems over powered. thank you for making a video that says she is the worst champion so I can start proving my point

It also helps when the Diamond Darius ints misses and still goes in and gets hammered

''she is literally the worst champion in the game '' my heart skipped a beat

That second Illaoi was honestly playing her very poorly. She didn't even have her tentacles set up at lvl 1... like... what you doing boo?

This is actually really helpful! I wish he would do this with more match ups

this guide is one of the best ive seen! he very well pointed out how you get forced to fight all the time in low elo. over time this also becomes the most frustrating thing about low elo since youre busy punishing mistakes all game long to the point where your not playing the game properly anymore. i remember having to dump so many bad habits after i got out of silver/gold the first time, but only years later im starting to fully understand how i got them in the first place.

My worst nightmare in low elo is to get ganked by my jgl when playing against illaoi. I already knew how to play against her but my jgler always stays in e and illaoi r...

I want Ezreal to say "You belong in a museum"

RIP Illoai, she deserves better. Such a cool character design.

OMG a guide to play against certain champs, I needed this for many many more champs for example how to play against Shaco, Katrina, Senna, etc.

Usually I ban pub stomp champions so my team doesn't feed them. I've had too many mids/tops hard feed against something and lose the game because of it.

Not only does it help people play against darius and illaoi, but it helps darius and illaoi players learn to play against everyone else, thanks

My mind automatically thinks of Gold as high elo so judging on that I'm almost totally safe from high elo rules so this will apply to pretty much every match I play. This also tells me why Veigar feels almost invincible for me in most of my games when I play him because the low elo thing gives Veigar a massive buff.

I like the format of this video, great to see the matchup from a different perspective.

nice video bro really fun to watch and informative af. can you make more videos like that pls

Never saw Illaoi as a strong champion except for her ultimate in team fights. Darius, on the other hand, is a real problem. But he is less of a problem now that the Stridebreaker dash is gone.

Meanwhile Illaoi mains with the new split push item: looks like it only took me 15 minutes

Really helpful thank you !!

"You can outscale him through teamfights easily". This can't be more wrong in low elo. I have no issue winning lane agains him, but he can pop off in teamfights even when super behhind and oneshot my team :(

As an illaoi main this made me sad to watch because of how true everything he said was.

Can the thumbnailartist pls get a 20$ bonus pay? That is an insult to Dariusplayers, and that shit is hilarious. With kind regard, A Dariusmain

I loved the video!! both the content and the editing, by the way, what resources did you use in the video to edit it that way?

Man u do rly helpful videos Keep going Wish u all best

The darius matchup is considering he has tp not ignite and he is against the tankiest champion in the game- ornn. The sad truth is that against any other top laner darius with ignite could actually 1 vs 1 them in their minion wave at lvl 1.

What people don't realize is that when Illaoi lands her E, you have two choices. 1) Stay tethered and take hits while she's at a safe distance, or 2) Walk away, get slowed and spend some time dodging/clearing tentacles. Both of these choices severely affects the point of laning phase. You're distracted and lose on minions. Illaoi hunkers down and makes you run away.

This video is a gem.Good job Skill Capped

I love playing Illaoi ( idk the reason ) but there is no match-up where I'm not scared to death . 1 gank from the enemy jg and Illaoi is basically a glorified minion in the laning phase .

Fun fact, if you have tr Illaoi curse on, this is a 100% way to do not being hit by the tentacles. Found a circular structure, as a tower, inhibitor, nexus, etc and then... just star walking around the circle. As it goes the tentacles only track your path once you activated his range, but if you still moves the tentacle doesn't change the trajectory

I'm so glad you guys are covering this. Been trying to explain this to my friends for years now

Yo i just came to this video and it literały covers the 2 champions i AM playing since i have begun playing 3 weeks ago

yo but what if ur problem isnt facing illaoi in lane but dealing with her past lane phase, somehow she always ends up stupidly fed even though ive pushed her to 0/3 and then i get flamed for trying to side lane because illaoi in teamfights is pretty strong

"Let illaoi miss her E" Have you seen Illaoi's hit boxes.

As someone who started playing league like a month ago I thought illaoi was so much fun and so strong because she was the first champ I started truly stomping toplaners with. Now my soul is crushed upon finding out she’s the worst champ in the game.

What were the runes and items on Mid Vi for Season 11? Do you still buy Trinity Force?

never had problems against theese 2 but again tnx for the info

For us boys in eune that play with 50+ ping constantly illaoi e is way harder to dodge and i think that the gold wukong might have that problem too

in other words, wait for the enemy to miss their key ability and auto win. thats literally the same as saying tristana is the weakest champ when she has no E and we all know that she is one of the 4 powerful adcs

The fact that u can just walk away from illaoi when she ults is like the most obvius thing to do but my entire team always gets one shot in team fights by it cuz somehow they dont understand it or they just play with their eyes closed

Illaoi is a very macro demanding champion, who is punished severely if over extended and misses E. Map awareness of enemy jungle and mid roam is critical. The key to illaoi is to have strong discipline when using E, only using it when it is free to land. Knowing matchups is also vitally important for illaoi. Some enemy team comps she can 1v5 while not even being fed. She has a very rock-paper-scissors type gameplay when it comes to enemy team comp. The value Illaoi brings to the table is being able to starve enemy top lane of gold/xp, forcing ganks to be focused on her while your team extracts value elsewhere on the map

I know I'm sounding like "that guy" but that really didn't look like a high elo Illaoi player. It looked like a high elo player trying to play Illaoi. I'm no where NEAR that elo and I NEVER would have gone for several of those Es or many of those Qs. They were never going to hit and anyone familiar with Illaoi's animations would have known that. Hell, even I know to back off the moment my E misses. There's no way they were familiar with Illaoi.

I used to play illaoi mid a lot too (gold), and im curious to know how did you play her?

what about irelaia who heals and hurts as much as darius edge Q with just her auto..how do I fight her?

Illaoi has always been a joke to me while playing fiora, I need to still learn the darius matchup but im doing my beat, this defo helps

Darius is strong just running people down. The window to win trades into is narrower than the average top laners IMO and that's why us low ELO players struggle. It's apparent that many Illaoi players don't know her well. Last night our Nocturne was late to lane and missed a whole wave and still managed to run her down and kill her the moment Noc got to lane.

I am a main Darius but I've recently noticed how ridiculous I'm playing him, and also that he's kinda weak

That moment fast forward to S12 and Darius is a problem in high elo

What can be changed or tweaked to make Illaoi great again?

I'm an illaoi main, and honestly more guides should be made like this. It's very easy to basically afk as illaoi against bronze/silver players. That shouldnt happen for a champion that's a one trick pony

I'm sure there are Darius otps higher than all the "analysts" rank

Hey Skillcapped… I got the same gameplan on wukong vs illaoi at lv1 and I think it works well. But what should I do if my mechanics are so bad that I cannot dodge the tentacles you described as so slow even with lv2 W? I couldn't even dodge the planted tentacles hitting down without any CS pressure (e.g. tentacles after running away from pulled E)

"Roll his face on the keyboard" xD 12:17

I have two things to say. One related to Darius having that high BR and one related to title but they are related. I am not hight elo, I almost dont even play ranked games ( just placements to get silver with few games if I get bronze ) but I played few games against smurfs and even specifically against 160K mastery Darius main from D1 limit testing at draft ( I will never ever forget that game ). Ultimately I got destroyed but he ran ignite and I faced him with phase rush rune as Fiora and both times he soloed me, before I got camped by angry nunu, he himself almost died ( less than 1% HP left ), so I guess that I do pretty OK when it comes to micro. Now here is the thing. Darius isnt necessarily banned because of LP but because of game experience and he is also one of these champions that lose to teamplay rather than individuals. Here comes second thing I think that its bit unfair saying that certain champions are noobstompers exactly for the reason of being noob as an opponent because as I said, there are bunch of champions that need teamplay to take them down. I have heart countless times from ppl at D2 and higher that Yi is busted and that they have no problem dealing with him at their own elo but its completely different thing when they are smurfing, especially when Yi himself is another smurf. So while I guess some champions are better at low elo simply because ppl are too lazy to read what their spells do, there are also champions who are held back by the fact that this is teamgame which at low elo is not inherently valid fact.

Against Darius, its not the playing lane that is hard, its that my team does not know how to play against him in teamfights, and just bring him back into the game after he just Quadras them after being 0/7

So how does the gameplay change now that hostile minions ignore it when you hit one of their allied champions under your tower? You can now safely ignore a large wave and get them out of your tower, no?

I had a match when autofilled that was basically an exact copy of the low elo wukong illaoi match. I didn't know the matchup at all.

It's not the top laners banning him, it's everyone else who knows not to trust their own top laner playing against him

nooooo dont tell them how to counter my mains :((

what a great guide for a returning player. Salute!

the problem isnt that I lose lane to Illaoi, its that my team is convinced that it is "all you can eat but the seafood eats you" day in top lane

Unless they revert Illaoi E to the old one that had counterplay other than "just dodge it bro lol" I dont see a way for riot to buff her, E is just too toxic of an ability. The issue with illaoi is that her E is impossible to miss if YOU start the trade on her so it puts all the pressure on her to throw it out and miss it for her to be even remotely fightable as if you do go in for a trade before she wastes it you automatically lose unless youre playing some champ with like 11 dashes. My frustration with the champion is that if I dont have a jungler that ever comes topside before shes level 6, I usually just have to farm because she will NEVER throw her E if its not guarunteed by me making the silly mistake of trying to fight her at all ever, so the lane just becomes a boring uninteractive farm lane waiting for her to get impatient and throw E. If she does miss the E for whatever reason 100% shes not a champion anymore, although if they max it first its cd isnt really very long. Also "just run out of the ult" is fine advice but the damage it deals on the first slam is often enough to just straight up kill you if not force your recall. Basically I feel like youre misinterpreting why she is banned. She takes away your agency to win your own lane assuming she does nothing other than farm and only uses her E to punish youre aggressive plays so that she always wins. Whats worse is you dont ahve the same outscale in teamfights/1v1 win condition you have against darius most of the time as illaoi at all stages of the game can pretty much 100-0 you with a landed E and an R. If illaoi had any real way to actually teamfight against ranged champions other than hope they run into her tentacles she would be 100% broken and pick ban in every elo.

When I play against Illoai she is by far the most "just dodge" champion. The windups are so slow it makes it so easy to dodge. When I pick Illoai I have so much fun because it's so funny that they can't dodge the most telegraphed abilities in the game.

I have a question and i wish it was addressed in this video because i feel like it's where illaoi's true power is. Recently me (jungle shaco) and mundo were smeared into the pavement by some kind of instant triple slam combo. And i do mean damn near instant. Up to this point I've never had any problems with any illaoi, never banned her and still haven't, because no other illaoi has pulled this off. I didn't even know it was a thing. ( Now mind you i barely see illaoi played anyway so it's not like i have a huge pool of examples to draw from) I understand they swing once at a Spirit , once at a vessel, and once every time you W, but how does that all come together for some kind of rapid fire triple combo that's so quick it looks the the animations overlap? And more importantly how do I avoid it because the "walk away from her ult" strat doesn't work when im dead faster than i can react.

I've bullied every top layer I've come across as ornn even against pepole I thought I'd lose against like nasty nasus but it went well I struggle with teemo and urgot also btw is nasys bad?

I mean, the common thread here with the "bad illaois" is that neither the low or high elo players understood or respected her weaknesses. Thats not illaoi's fault, thats the person sitting behind the computer's fault lol. Any self-respecting illaoi player knows full well what her weaknesses are and plays around them

Someone share this with Rito so Illaoi can get some timing buffs at least?

I'm in silver and I always thought her strength was when you shoved into her because she had tentacles set up, and so I just kept getting hard shoved and never wanted a gank because if she lands her ult, her lifesteal and DMG is so so high. But this makes sense lol

Nice Guide, did not know that illaoi is that bad bc i never See her

At what point does riot think that making annoying champions that are bad makes the game better

Darius not op Also Darius-“solo drake at lvl 1”

I need more of these

When I start playing GP I was thinking that Darius was a really bad matchup, later when I reach gold (yup I was bronze), I understand if he miss E he can't do nothing relevant. Even better was when I realized how his Q works, every time he hits E just move near to him, you have more chance to dodge her Q AOE moving near to him than tryin scape It's crazy how champs that everyone in low elo hates (yes gold still low elo) are so weak when you understand how it works Anyway I have so much to improve to deserve a decent elo

I'm an illaoi main, and i always counter her with yorick and it's free win for me haha. Idk about the other elo's From a gold player :(

Darius is not a good champion - also darius: literallly S tier in every tier list

can you do one vs garen, cause a lot of people struggle how to play vs his passive and how to get advantages

As a kayn main who just started watching this, rhaast instantly came to my mind.

As a Garen main, I still think banning Darius is justified (for this specific matchup). But Illaoi - it's all about dodging E/R and then going in.

I Perma ban Sett i rather be able to all in then run for half the fighting sequence.

nice guide!

That was a really helpfull video

Definition of an OP champion: "It requires more of your attention in order to defeat them". It's not that "OP" champs are better by design, they just give you harder time to figure them out. And this is probably the hardest thing for low elo players. They don't focus and think deeply about mechanics. They just see spells, but don't think about cool downs.

Finally, i never understood why people is scared of illaoi, just walk away, and shes useless

So what do you do as singed into illaoi. That is kinda a shitty matchup for singed

So can we get this kind of video for all the champs?

Illaoi is useless champion. Sad thing is that riot wont give her good buffs even though she is weak for years

Darius is not weak after nerfs. He still counters a lot of peak champions like riven or nasus, or strong ones like irelia, fiora. Darius is banned because it makes the first 10-15 minutes of the game unplayable. You either lose hard or play even. You never win lane. And you want to be winning lane.

My first main was illaoi… as soon as I reached silver she became unplayable. I got so frustrated by the lack of mobility after they changed stridebreaker that I started playing champs with a shit ton of mobility like Akali and Yone, the complete opposite while still being as cancer to lane against

7:45 illaoi seems to be so bad she is considered "a melee minion" lol