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[@NickyBoi]

So that Ambessa Medarda and Shyv VGU announcement kind of made the title of this video obsolete LOL

[@rebeccareturnmykids9207]

You sure got goofed on. Check for Rioters in your walls.

[@RalLane]

I’m so excited for Shyvana the concepts look great and Mel’s mom and Illaoi are definitely gonna be rivals in the top lane

[@x-nimator9997]

The reign of buff women in league has started

[@arsontheaverage8821]

xD was about to say that

[@thiagotaubman7505]

Holy shit i'm actually hyped to see Mel's mom in the game

[@eray4275]

“Illaoi is the only buff woman in the game” being said on the day Ambessa Medarda was confirmed to be coming to the game later this year is peak comedic timing

[@danielorlovaquinn]

Who tf is that?!?!?

[@Muuony]

​@@danielorlovaquinnmels mom from arcane

[@igorcells3579]

And has Shyvanna, Sejuani, Camille and Fiora in the game. This centence don't make any sense 💀.

[@steps8140]

​@@igorcells3579all of them have spaghetti arms wdymmmmmmm

[@danielorlovaquinn]

@@Muuony love and hate that i wish arcane didnt change league this much but omg we are getting ambessa? HYPE

[@00Clank]

You mention how Illaoi has these more 'masculine' coded features of being so strong and built, but at the same time she has a lot of femininity to her that's absolutely part of her character. Reminds me of Street Figther 6's newcomer Marisa, who loves to fight and is second only to Zangief in terms of the roster's musculature. But she also dabbles in fashion design primarily by being a jeweler who crafts rings and necklaces, which is pretty cool. I enjoy when the Big Lady character isn't just 'we made a woman into a man' or how their massive size doesn't at all make them less of a woman. Because how could it, they're huge!

[@leek.7046]

The moment I peaked in League of Legends was the day i played a game of Illaoi and I was bullying the living shit out of the enemy top but bot was getting their ass kicked and mid was being camped by the enemy jungle and at some point someone tried to ff but our jungle typed "Illaoi is fed we win" and we did indeed win. I've never felt so powerful. Made my entire day. Never been able to replicate that experience cause i actually suck at this game xD but Illaoi has been one of my favorite champions for years, so fun to play even if you're behind you still have fun slapping hoes with ghost tentacles and it feels so satisfying for some reason. Also. Ilaoi just looks so cool- I love big brawny women, and the colorscheme with the muted browns and bright greens? Perfection. 10/10

[@elbionleloup]

You really describe the fun of playing the champ even if she isn't best

[@emericcoude4068]

I feel like I would swap her E and R in some way; Bring some consistency of creating and triggering tentacles outside of an ultimate-long cooldown (in a weakened form), and make the soul test her ultimate in a more powerful form.

[@commanderdingdong422]

We didn’t get to talk about her skins 😢

[@kiwwat4139]

As someone unfortunate enough to be a relative beginner at league when Illaoi came out… I’ve never forgotten she exists. I have never forgotten the horrors.

[@ImSharingaan]

Same bro one of my very first games was against her and I legit thought her E was her ult because of how crazy it is😂

[@PirateKingBoros]

My favorite quote from her is “How can I love just one man? They break far too easily.”

[@wuj0-themanthemyththelegen856]

Is that so

[@jackerez3537]

😳

[@MartoradGaming]

Snu Snu 🤤

[@saintpres4ge533]

I ship her and Braum, especially with the ruined king game

[@St0nek]

Polyamorous Illaoi sweep

[@Despairity2]

Wish Riot would release more unique champs like Illaoi(in terms of theme and archetype). No more Ahri/Akali clones pls

[@snusslybussly5749]

akali ?

[@RalLane]

They just revealed that they are adding Mel’s mom from Arcane sooo that’s a step in the right direction

[@sandyholmerin2925]

I know Akali is popular but she is still very unique among the league champs

[@Despairity2]

@@sandyholmerin2925 Design-wise or kit-wise. Kit-wise, yes she is very unique but she still has the exact same "hot women" design

[@cursesin]

@@Despairity2 Akali is a lot more lean than most league women tho

[@boredhuman6512]

Amazingly timed with knowing what character from arcane is coming to league

[@PirateKingBoros]

Sevika?

[@nettlenite3882]

@@PirateKingBoros Ambessa

[@Vernafveik]

Her default design is so good, so perfect, I don’t see them ever making a skin that’s worth using over her default. I also love how they made an overconfident champion, without making her annoying, since she doesn’t bring people down or insult them, and can absolutely back up her confidence with strength.

[@nunyabiznes7446]

DUNKMASTER ILLAOI THE TENTACLES ARE THOSE INFLATABLE SPORTSBALL TUBES but yeah still wouldn't be as great as her default, they nailed it. God that was such a good season for champ design.

[@Vernafveik]

I stand corrected.

[@zwiebeldogs]

I think Snow Moon is pretty cool but yeah...Base Design is goated

[@patrickcarter2829]

I feel like Ink Shadow could work for her.

[@diskoebalo]

I love her Resistance skin

[@ammymara4868]

I absolutely love Illaoi's Polynesian influenced designs. And in general I wish we had more characters based on indigenous people and culture. (I want them to develop more on Ixtal so badly)

[@Netsuko]

Also fun fact: "Nagakabuoros" was an improvised name by the voice actress as they didn't have a name for the entity yet at that point. They ended up liking it so much that they kept it.

[@G_Kchrst]

Naga is a great Serpent and kabouros as a word resembles the Pacific languages pronounciations so I think it's a great name.

[@lpk675]

Of course the same day Nicky talks about Illaoi being the only female Champion with notable muscles ends up being the same day Riot announces that Ambessa Medarda is coming to League as a Champion.

[@poisonedoak6563]

i can just imagine idol nicky going "uwaugh" whenever illaoi q's

[@smeeblo9846]

She was the first champion i ever played and mained, I think back when Kai’sa and Pyke just released. Not many champions have captured my heart like her, but I am glad to hear Ambessa coming to league.

[@TheMgborn]

I can't wait to play Illaoi mid, I hope riot won't widen the midlane in the next patch.

[@JustShawn11]

I kinda like the way illaoi is rn, she's the similar to gangplank,the way you need to set up tentacles and fight around it,the same way gangplank plays around his powder keg which given they're close in lore,makes sense The only thing I'd change of her is make the tentacles in passive stack,and have the ability to choose when it can spawn,like 3 charges,where if you don't spawn the tentacles early game and play safe, you can save tentacles to spawn 3 at herald together for easily securing herald with jg,and the same way area control for baron. Gives the player a lot more control to the mechanic,but hey, I'm an illaoi main so I'm biased af

[@EnisL]

basically heimerdinger no?

[@olivernewbold3082]

As a former illaoi one trick for around 2 years, i think her e would benefit from becoming a full hook ability rather than a poke tool. Hypothetically if they made it so that the spirit fights while the body stays still and they make the body so it has more tankiness / untargetable /invulnerable it could fix a lot of her struggling gameplay loop

[@Fyoozhen]

We actually have seen Nagakabouros, they're a card in LoR. Granted, they are just a writing mass of tentacles and they're partially underwater, so we don't get a full view

[@batham1185]

My favorite part of Illaoi is when she says “It’s illaoing time” and then she illaos all over the place

[@nunyabiznes7446]

One of the best champions in League on so many levels. Mained her for a long time until the balance team ruined her by gutting tank items and healing so she started just dying instantly every teamfight. I think these days she's more survivable but deals no damage? I don't play LoL anymore but Illaoi is one of the characters I still miss. EDIT: Watching the other team just walk at Nicky, get hit with perfect Es and ults, and then just kill him because they stat checked her ._. yeah that's about right. In a properly balanced game, if a fed illaoi lands a four man ult with E in dragon pit AND THEN THEY FIGHT HER, at least two of those people should be dead. Just sad to see her state today.

[@tylerdashart]

8:09 i absolutely COMPLETELY agree with you man 😭😭 and wtf is her outfit??? boob armor??? the corset??? the fucking TUTU??? shes not a ballet dancer she will punch the hell outta anyone 😭 i started playing league from arcane. vi is the first champ i ever played. seeing her design made me cringe i immediately bought arcane skin on day 2 or 3 😭😭😭 thats how bad her design looks- she desperately needs a vgu

[@yatonarakumi9800]

I remember back when she was release and people underestimate her power. The reason I main her was because back then I mainly use her to counter darius and also to spite every darius mains since darius and renekton are the major bullies of top lane back then

[@JojishiAMVs]

Welp, Mel's mom just got announced as a champion, so we get another woman who is a bit older and who's more buff. Nice

[@parana03]

How can we submit our own fanart? I’d love to participate in this, do we DM his Discord or does he have a channel for this?

[@skudrinskis]

I don't know how people can forget the torture suffered under Illaoi, so I don't agree that she is unpopular in the sense of "forgotten" everyone just hates the shit out of her, I was top main when she came out.. now I'm not

[@vinis220]

But what's about her's skins? I wish Illaoi shoud have a dunkmaster skin

[@felipesoaressepulveda6134]

hottest champion 10/10

[@someguywithawooperpfp3163]

Does Renata count as a buff woman... or is she just dommy mommy? :|

[@hotroden4439]

Just dommy mommy. She doesn't have muscles

[@haustek9341]

30 seconds in, happy new year everyone

[@afiqmustafayev]

Happy new year random internet person

[@joejocas8748]

I don’t main her in Rift, but the way she is written in the Ruined King game makes me love her alot.

[@johird9990]

Kinda wish she was less unique gameplay wise, then she would be more popular and riot would give her more skins and mabye make more champs with her style of body type

[@valestivale4711]

"I am sorry iran, please assasinate me": Yea no, this is not something he wrote. The CIA is getting sloppy wtf

[@chrishaven1489]

Yo, NickyBoi. Arcane Season 2 teaser trailer's out

[@molten5378]

8:33 that cut from Kayn emerging out of the shadows to the insant death screen is so hilarious

[@Chokogdareal]

reminded me of how Tobias fate calls Illaoi "Big mama" when playing her when you screamed "BIG MAMA" flashing that Kayn

[@SanaTT]

I love love her design and the way she walks and carry herself 👏👏

[@screengecko1995]

Illaoi is such a cool character but I absolutely can't play her. Sadly the playstyle just won't click. But the character, the lore, the voicelines and man the DESIGN are just so great and one could do so much with her (like Riot currently does), but it still sometimes feels like she is being overlooked. For example; why didn't she get a soulfighter skin, when her whole stick is about being a cool, strong lady and souls?

[@pedrobettt]

Hearing you pronounce it "Naga-Kay-Boros" is a bit painful. it's a KAH sound, she says it lots of times in the Ruined King game. Like "car" or "Camembert"

[@alex_velociraptoras7651]

Illaoi,Volibear,Pyke,Braum,Galio these are all the champions that fit in the DunkMaster skinline but will never be in

[@MatiasCirulli]

I don't like that her model in LoL got attacked by the color demon stripping her of her color

[@AndresLopez-st3lz]

Hey Nicky, I would like to send you a fan art for Friday reviews but I don't have Discord, only Twitter, can I send it to you in DM? Or just post it and @tag you? 😅

[@jahcode6132]

So it's not necessarily OP bc it has clear counterplay. But I hate how literally one single ability, her E, determines whether or not she can 1 v 5 or dies instantly. Like "oh, I wonder if I'll hit the win button this time". Definitely a really dumb mechanic.

[@paigeyorkman9341]

I disagree with the discussion at 14:00 because I tried playing Illaoi to learn more carry champs. I was positive in more than half of my games from just starting her. I think her setup is nearly braindead and her champ's hotboxes are super forgiving. idk if it's just the gold life or what but that's my experience.

[@Radondon_]

I hated Illaoi with a passion before this video because they would always bully me top lane, but after watching, I have been playing LOTS of her and having a very good time lol. Thanks for that nickyboi

[@frogstranger5544]

*sees nicky play illaoi in mid* I thought you werent a psychopath like Tobias? Kek Anyway love the video and like the other comments said, itsa funny that the time you posted this there’s news of the new buff women champ/update

[@hectorcortland5204]

To be fair, even if the hextech gauntlets had weight reducing tech, she would still have to overcome their inertia. It would still be bery difficult to accelerate and decelerate them at punching speeds, double especially considering the speed she swings them around at. I think arcane fixed it a little bit, especially when you look at real life boxers and fighters, theyre not really big in terms of mass, at most theyll have big shoulders and chest/upper back muscles, which vi does have in arcane.

[@DenkiRay]

It's quite hilarious how Nicky upload this video a few moments before Riot literally ruin the whole concept of it.

[@urnx6172]

Her lor gameplay is also pretty unfortunate. She’s consistently a very bad champion but all of her support cards keep catching nerfs because they’re so good in other decks

[@flops1792]

we actually know what nagakebouros (spelled like that?) looks like, she's a card in LoR :D

[@cadenmcerlean4920]

I wonder if maybe instead of making tentacles spawn around her at specific intervals, if they made it similar to the ruined king and made tentacles spawn when you use abilities. Put a cap on it which gets increased when you use your ult, and it may be able to make her less of a split push champ and make her more useful for roaming and teamfights

[@Netsuko]

New midlane design makes it impossible for Illaoi to play there. Tentacle slam doesn't even reach the minions anymore... lol

[@noises8732]

Me focusing on Nicky levelling with mouse and forgetting everything else

[@TomasPereira-b1l]

Nagekeboros (hope I got that) is actually a card in legends of runeterra, so we do actually know what it looks like, kinda

[@xwarockx3959]

8:30 "Her whole religion abolishes the idea of taking the shortcuts" *Cuts to the death screen*

[@გიორგიმოსაშვილი-ო3დ]

I joined the discord and want to send my submissions for the fan art but all the channels are locked and I don't know what's going on

[@atsukana1704]

Illaoi clearly takes a lot of inspiration from Amazonian women who are a group of women on greek mythology that are large in stature and are not very kind to men lol.

[@Cmrn-im2uv]

the coolest thing rn is the fact that she is now picked for 2XKO so that is alot of fun

[@Caliburned1122]

I can't believe you didn't talk about her god awful BBQ voice line lol

[@Itachi17509]

I kinda love how a plus if illaoi is being a buff woman and now we are getting another buff woman

[@gsynch8598]

bout time to switch to mommy Medarda hope her gameplay is better than illaoi

[@thatguyinyellow2950]

The only reason I don't like Illaoi is the gameplay. She feels so bad to play

[@neodymelanthanide2101]

Wtf is that editing ? Letting only farming timing and cutting all fights ???

[@Zippyheru]

you didnt even get into her skins... why you gotta finish this so early?

[@OniLifes]

Illaoi and Bruam are FUCKING. No I wont elaborate

[@think_potatoes4945]

they could do the fiddle sticks thing and have her tentacles be her trinket

[@pheonixfire667]

Did he say yorick is a season 6 champion? Oof did my man real dirty there

[@D0P3ST]

you should try her support, she is pretty good with Bloodsong.

[@takoyaki4953]

I don't think Illaoi needs a rework, she just needs a way to make up for her lack of agency with the tentacles, and my first thought was to replace one of her basic abilities with a manual tentacle placement, kind of like Zyra's W.

[@poom323]

Maybe make Q champion hit or W champion hit/minion kill create tentacle would be nice.

[@儀水鏡の妖怪霊]

A minor rework on her passive probably could contribute to that. Her passive only scales with levels, but what if it was affected by CDR, or have reduced cooldown based on how many slams have hit enemy champions? It could allow her to move more on the map instead of being this champion that is incentivized to sit on a lane all day because she's nothing without her tentacles.

[@NeroTheAngel]

Never got it. What has a Serpent God to do with tentacles

[@FuzzyFerretz]

illaoi is my top mastery and favorite champ to play

[@רוןבלומרוזן]

Nicky maybe for next week you go ap irelia

[@pikalol_]

u should do a neeko champ review :)

[@NovaGN]

Illaoi isnt for me design or gameplay wise, but im happy she exists for the sole purpose of expanding League's design philosophies.

[@steagle2592]

Didn't go over the skins :(

[@hasterpl4285]

13:18 omg i remeber it was soo badd

[@ofanichan]

What does "cgu" mean?

[@KhoaHoàng-b6t]

No skins this time though...

[@rynret1818]

What about her skinssss

[@justazuzu7484]

hyped for shaco lore

[@matthewmillard2731]

You mean Illinois?

[@rainmanxx8130]

I have come to realize that Nicky actually doesn't like skill expressive, fast paced, flashy champions which is a shame, but to each their own. Although I disagree with 95% of this series, it's always entertaining to watch u suffer for the most part. Much appreciated.

[@SomeAdamGuy0]

O n e m o r e c h a m p

[@Shauna_Vayne]

What about skins ?

[@x-nimator9997]

BIG MOMMA Illaoi is one of my fav. designs from league. I was gonna say that she was the only female champion who had a different body type, being stronk n all, but now that riot will release medarda's mom as a champion AND shyvanna will gain some muscles on her vgu, it seems we'll finally see more varied bodytypes for female champions that aren't just like ahri or evelynn.

[@sorlakgear]

Stinky not moving boi

[@tinycandleman6020]

I actually love Illaoi's gimmick, I just don't like how slow she feels. She's like a more damage oriented Sion, and against any champ other than another bruiser half her skillshots will end up grtting sidestepped.

[@MarshallCubed]

Nicky: i actually played a champion review of her on top but got absolutely top diffed Also nicky this game: gets abolished

[@marvelmaniac88]

When I first got into LoR I looked through the LoL roster and she immediately stood out as one of the best/most unique designs. I fully agree with your 10/10.

[@annaadotd6405]

Thankfully we are getting a shyvana vgu which the concept arts imply that she is going to be buffed, and Medarda is coming as well which anyone who watched arcane (basically everyone) knows she is buffed. So people who love buffed women celebrate, we are getting more muscle momies

[@moisesbernal1749]

Crazy how in this video you mention that Illaoi is to date one of the only Buff female champions in the game on today january the 5th where certainly no other buff older womab chanpion is announced to be coming in the future... *Ambessa Medarda enters the char*

[@oanjohnson6235]

Love how Nicky occasionally just uncontrollably drops a Tobias Fate refference

[@luandeoliveira1581]

I love her kit so much man, the passive and E makes it for me, of course If you miss E you are fucked, but It's on you man, I wish her face was better but I guess for what she is It's fine, sadly she is bruttaly beaten by champs with high attack speed, but her and Renekton might be the only champs you are almost guaranteed to praticly win every 2v1 or 3v1 on lvl 6 and a full item, cleptomancy on her was SUCH a joy man, It was so fun, I miss that talent so bad

[@Ghytiees]

I main Illaoi, love the champ, I agree with what you said at the end. E is a problematic ability, if they ever do rework Illaoi I hope they do something about that but keep Illaoi's zone control with tentacles.

[@dastrawberydum]

As an Illaoi main, I think she has problems in her kit but I’m still glad she is in the game, unlike Yone. Btw I love the moments where Nicky is getting cornered or ganked and it skips all the fighting to a grey skin, that is so fucking hilarious.

[@linniei]

I don’t time for League and she isn’t in Wild Rift yet, but I’ve played her in Ruined King and she’s so much fun to play! Good damage and enough sustain for the team is really nice. I also like how her story line is about her doubting her faith and coming to realise she must deviate from the typical teachings and go against the Elder’s advice in order to save Bilgewater from Viego.

[@stillpositive5060]

So no skin talk?

[@butterviking]

I remember playing when she first released and everyone did not understand how her tentacles worked so I always had tentacles anywhere I go. Good times.

[@denispistolinha8176]

14:15 one idea i just thought of was, her tentacles charged like zyras w but in her passive, and they would spawn when she hit a Q in a enemy champion, this would make her more dinamic in team figths and in lane it would make it harder for the enemy to just kill the tentacles off because they spawned at a bad place and a bad time, also making the tentacles not needing walls would be very good, especially when you look at the new top lane and how far apar all the walls are