Ok, irelia's a stupidly designed champion

Guy Fox Teemo··4 votes·397 views

You shouldn't get

1: Huge amount of sustain 2: Persistent True damage (And a LOT of it) 3: Mobility 4: Hard CC 5: Getting rewards for playing poorly in a fight (Her E) 6: An insane amount of tenacity 7: Tankiness as she quite the amount of base stas. 8: Scale so extremely well with an item that buying instantly gives you like 3x times the power of what you payed for the item (Tri-force)

(I really can't name any weakness's as Irelia doesn't lack in any area.)

So she's ridiculously strong, she's not broken, she just has everything and lacks any real weakness, she doesn't have mana problems, she doesn't have sustain problems, she has burst and dps. She has mobility, the items she scales well off of, give her even MORE mobility. She can build pure tank after 2 damage items, and still do more DPS, then your adc or assassin.

I'm sorry but she's ridiculous, don't out right nerf her like you do to every other champion you see strong. Just shift her power somewhere else, is she a sustain, dps fighter? Or is she an anti, CC, fighter who lacks, sustain, and burst but brings utility to the team. You need to choose one Riot, she can't have them all.

12 Comments

TehNACHO1 votes

Do you know about the damage triangle?

I wonder where Irelia is supposed to stand in it, because right now, she has all three elements, and I think that's what's messing with her state of balance.

Smegma1231 votes

Riot has admitted this since Irelia's release - she is one of the hardest champions to balance due to her possession of all 3 types of damage.

TehNACHO1 votes

Uhh that's not what the damage triangle is.

Talking about the: Burst>DPS DPS>Tank Tank>Burst

thing.

Her kit is naturally designed for DPS, she can frontload a crapton of Burst with her dash and stun, and it's no surprise to anyone that due to her build, she's also exceptionally tanky.

Smegma1231 votes

Oh sry, in that case I stand corrected. So Riot was talking about the 3 damage types, not the damage triangle.

360D3GR3SS1 votes

My go to champs for cheesing irelia are malphite (who scales just as well or harder than her) and jax who scales harder than her.

Cowgirl Ed1 votes

Irelia is kinda broken, but there are major problems atm (Devourer, Vayne, Amumu ratios, etc)

Rustling Bush1 votes

irelia has been smacked with the nerf bat so many times their is a meme "better nerf irelia", because no matter how many time she is nerfed, she will always be strong, she is the very definition of a overloaded kit, it all really started with her.

Penns1 votes

Literally the last time Irelia was nerfed was in "Patch v1.0.0.136", which was like... beginning of 2012? Excluding that small E damage nerf because noone gives a shit about that useless nerf lol.

GrReaper961 votes

Or u can just sh*t on her with Darius Garen

colesy1 votes

irelia has pretty terrible mana problems in laning phase, her sustain is decent, she can burst in the early-mid stage of the game but then just falls off 30+ minutes if she doesn't build any more damage after trinity, and if she does build more than that it makes her squishier obviously.

she's also basically hard countered by any stunbreaks built by the support or adc.

Laustin Space1 votes

She's rather easily counter picked. You can build against her easy with hp, armour, and or any attack speed slows. Her early is mediocre in most match ups and her damage falls off a lot in the late game. Shes a mid game champion like say a Corki who usually needs to pressure and win by around the 30 minute mark or she usually loses. She may be rather easy to play but honestly a good player on any of these champions Fiora Garen Darius Rumble Riven Hecarim Chogath Shen Gangplank Diana is more often a lot more terrifying then facing a good Irelia when it comes to top laners and most of those aren't much harder to play if at all. Not to say she isn't strong and a definite pubstomper. ^^\

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