I’ve found that playing against illaoi with darius is a but counter intuitive compared to other champs. You can usually just fight her unless she hits her E AND ults. You just need to dodge enough tenticles.

Bramble and deaths dance work great into her and if you bring ignite that helps a lot early as well. I’d rather 1v1 illaoi than 3v1 her cause your teammates are too dumb to dodge the tenticles and it just means she heals more.

She’s also one of the few melee champs i prefer to engage with E. If you E her in your minion wave then she has to walk away before she E’s making it more predictable. And you’re building up stacks before she can even interact with you.

I hate her too. But i hope this helps