He is bad. He was bad before with the old Tass and the old tower and core.
With the new changes, he went from bad to really bad.
His main strength was always ending a game. Once he was on the core, he was very hard to get off. He is okay at camping, he is okay with macro. That’s about it. He was ok at diving under bases.
Now that you can no longer dive under bases and its much more difficult to kill cores, half of his strengths are gone.
He is now regulated to OK at camps, OK with macro. If you wanted to take metamorph (lol) you would actually go from OK at macro to trash at macro, or TRASHCO if you like having fun.
People who have been playing for a long time might recall, he was very strong at the onset. But he has been nerfed, and more importantly the game has shifted. When he was invented there was ONE hero who had blind. That hero was Lili. The amount of heroes with blind now? I lost count but its close to a thousand.
He is a “mobile” hero who pairs well with “enablers” - this is his In game label.
With tass gone, he loses 1/4 of his enablers. With the new building changes, he loses his mobility.
So what can be done? What are some ways to bring him back from “trash” to at least maybe ok sometimes.
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…??
You have evasion to dive as you did before.
Cores don’t have more health than before, and you can dodge Core abilities by flipping to the other side of it. Unlike most heroes that can only walk out.
Does not compute.
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How much illidan do you play? Not being a jerk, honestly want to know.
He may not have been hit as hard as some, but he was hit pretty hard by these changes.
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He’s just a strange hero who does great or does bad, but you can never do an in between.
Just like ANY hero, there are some games where the enemy team somehow picked no CC, No blinds. And yes he can do great, but that is true for any attack damage hero.
illidan is pretty good hero. the problem is there’s rarely anybody who can actually play him most of the illidans i played with “even before this towers change” they play to feed… at the end of the game you can see illidan with 10+ deaths and above playing like he’s leoric taking advantage of his trait Kappa
the problem is the player’s in this game not the hero itself is what i’m saying. you can be successful on any hero as long as you’re good at playing that hero
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Interesting, what rank are you playing at?
Explain how it’s harder for Illidan to attack the core than before.
They can give him +2 AA Damage and that would be fine.
They can’t buff him moderately because Illidan just like Tracer is one of those heroes who can go nuts with a buff past the streak.
masters. i don’t see illidans there often but the amount of deaths i see are from QM illidans usually in ranked they don’t die that much but in QM they do since they mostly troll there
He has even become a meme now in wtf moment cause he always dies to something stupid.
See this is a good point. Illidan isnt picked in Masters.
I play diamonds and plats and he is obsolete.
He dies because he is paper thin, the slightest CC or blind makes him DoA.
yeah tbh you can’t draft illidan vs let’s say Uther / ETC / and other heroes that can make it so hard for you to do anything as illidan most of the time i see illidans being draft is when he’s last pick if they don’t have that many stuns and blinds he’s safe but if they do he must switch or play very safe and wait for them to use their CC on someone else then engage
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Illidan in my opinion is one of the most balanced heroes.
I’m Master.
I sometimes use him in rankeds and in good hands he is perfect. It is not to brag but I am not one of those Illidan’s that launch 1v5 XD.
QM rules is you must go 1 vs 5 or you’re bad! Kappa
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He is mostly a last pick hero ye. Also his hunt ult got good teamfight potential if its not used instantly when you see someone alone in a lane. Also waiting for enemy team to spend all their cc on tanks first instead of you is a good idea.
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Lol!
So you think hes in a good spot?
Yes, he is a good hero (20 chars).
i would say situational tbh given the fact you can’t draft him whenever you want.
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I would say any hero that must be picked last and only against the absolute perfect hero comp (one where ANY ADC would excel) I wouldnt call him good.
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