Thoughts About Irelia's Nerf

Ok sure but why··3 votes·611 views

So, as you all know too well, IreliaIrelia is a champion that has increasing tenacity, 2000 base health for some reason, 75 true damage and bonus healing on her auto attacks, an abruptly long stun (Because it's hardly ever a slow), a dash that resets if it kills something, and an ult that literally just spams damage and self-healing in a forward direction. It's not really fair. Some champions have lots of Crowd Control, some champions have lots of health and defences, and some even deal true damage on their autos. Irelia? She has everything. Now, Riot finally realised that she's just simply not fun to play against, and sucks the fun and joy out of every game she's in.

So they take a look at this champ and come together on how they can make her more balanced and play-against-able. Do they give her less health to make her rely on her stun to save herself, rather than to keep enemies from escaping? Do they lower her true damage to make her rely more on sustain than just assassinating even the most armoured tanks?

No, they just increase her ult's cooldown early game. That's nothing. Her ult isn't the problem, Riot. Her ult is just a little extra bit of damage to her already unfathomable Q, W and E.

It's her Q, W and E that need the fine-tuning to make her counter-able. That or her absurd amounts of health that let her stay alive long enough to deal so much.

But thank you for at least starting with her ult. Next patch, can you do something more to her that might actually affect her currently unstoppable kit?

10 Comments

Akali is SO HOT3 votes

Good job listing off all of Irelia's abilities

FortisDominus2 votes

You could also learn to play the match up or counter pick? Renekton, darius, olaf, riven, pantheon, and volibear can steamroll her or atleast go even with her in lane. She struggles against all of these champions and most of them are easy as shit to play.

Her ult is a big portion of her damage because using when using it, irelia can constantly proc. sheen. With her ult nerfed it gives you a window of opportunity to fight back unlike before due to her ult having such a short CD.

Sorry to say man, its not the champion, its you.

Ok sure but why1 votes

You can say with a straight face that 75 true damage per auto isn't anywhere over the top?

Phoenix Kotori 1 votes

Considering it has no scaling in any form besides attack speed thus falls off somewhat as the game goes on after her level 9 power spike, no not really it's been 75 true damage since she was released.

Ok sure but why1 votes

The fact that it doesn't need to scale off of anything makes it worse. You can take a Tri-Force and five Thornmails and still instakill anyone if you feel like it.

TyroneWatermelon2 votes

She's the type of braindead cancer champion that one shots players with point and clicks and zero brain movement or chance to counterplay until 30 minutes. Literally like pantheon,Volibear,Kha'zix and Cho'Gath.

JackLovesLamp2 votes

I don't know why anyone would be defending Irelia hehe, she's definitely overpowered, she was good(and by good I mean a top solo queue top laner) before the Tri force changes which were a buf to her on top of that.

The ult nerf isn't enough and Riot knows it, but they might not do anything about it for some time since Jax Swain Vlad and irelia have been keeping the tank meta at bay.

Ok sure but why1 votes

The tank meta needs to end soon. There's so much cc, it's near impossible for any assassin to have their moment to shine.

JamesTheMage171 votes

How about you nerf every other Toplaner? You just listed Cho, Darius, Voli, Kayle, everyone else. You say giving her large base stats along with damage and cc, yet she's like the lowest cc Toplaner I can list. Darius has two 80% slows, Cho has knockup and silence, Kayle has a ridiculous slow (60% for 3 seconds wtf), yet irelia has one cc ability that only does ONE thing and a nearly useless passive, while the only purpose for her passive is for helping her break even in lane trades, nothing else. Compared to volibear, irelia is shit. Sorry I had to tell you in such a manner, but seriously, read your thread and then look at every other Toplaner.

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