Illaoi is the worst designed champion in the game and made me quit twice.

I am a season 4 diamond player who dumped more hours into the game than I like to admit. When life started after school, I quit LoL, only to regret it a year later because I found that all this time that I played and the skill I acquired shouldn't go to waste. So I started again, together with my girlfriend and we had fun for about 2 months.

Then I had to play this champion I didn't know about: Illaoi. My enemy was a silver player, so I didn't care to look up what this champion does. So I played the game, and needless to say I got stomped. But the problem was, I just couldn't figure out why I was losing so hard, I just couldn't go in to trade whatsoever, it was really frustrating. Since I am a pretty competetive person, I hanged in there and I had to play Illaoi the next game as well. I got stomped again. This is were I started to rage. I just couldn't figure out how to deal with this champion, and "just play safe" didn't satisfy me in the least. That's where I quit again.

A year had passed since then, and reflecting on what happened these two games I realized, I got so mad because of my own lack of skill and my stubborness. So I started playing again.

After 4 won games in a row, I started to have lots of fun with this game again, I had to face Illaoi. I thought I was ready. But I wasn't. So I quit again.

The thing is, I know that it was my own fault and I should've played better or looked up some guides how to play against this champ. But even reading the guides, the counterplay sounds veeeery boring to me. Just dodge the E. Kite her. Run away when getting hit from the E and then dodge the tentacles for 5 seconds. This is not fun in the least.

So now that I have this thing off my chest: Please League of Legends community, help a veteran player get back into the game, and tell me how to beat Illaoi, but please keep it fun for me.

Tl;dr: Illaoi is not fun to play against even knowing about counterplay. Please tell me how to beat her in a fun way.