Irelia's e is a dumb ability

Eyesack·Aug 29, 2016·2 votes·443 views

Not just because its a target ability that stuns you for 2 seconds, but just the fact that the threat of her e just makes me feel bad about attacking her 100% of the time.

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CerealBoxOfDoomAug 29, 20161 votes

originally she was supposed to be an assassin/melee carry. She's called a fighter but that's because there isn't really a proper label currently. She was the prototype for a lot of other melee carries that now exist, all of whom have either fighterlike traights or assassinlike traits or both.

That you will likely get stunned and knocked around if you attack her isn't really that big an issue since her kit works the way it does but if you are going to fight her you need to be capable of surviving a few seconds of battle... its not what we call an assassin's kit today but if you fought any assassin they will likely kill you if you cannot survive 2 seconds against heavy damage and they WILL very probably evade certain death for at least 2 seconds.

Fizz Leblanc Kassadin Zed Talon Akali

all assassins have this sort of evasive ability.. assassin or not irelia will evade death for a time. Her damage isn't that insane but you can't stop her and you cannot escape from her.

She falls under a similar category to Ekko and Akali

Also by the time she gets a 2 second stun, level 9 at best on an ap scaling ability, you should have an answer ready to whatever has been wrecking you that match.

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just as an added note because this comes up a lot

if you want to feel like you are right and get your ass beat by irelia just go ahead and say whatever about her kit

If you just want to win its best to think of her as an assassin. If she gets tanky its best to think of her as an assassin getting tank items. Even if you call her a fighter, modern assassins were likely based on her playpattern.