FFS I HATE IRELIA!

HaxProdigy·May 29, 2015·9 votes·1,103 views

Why wont this dumb champion go away even after all the nerfs she's still op as hell, Jeeezzzz, Why hasn't riot done more about this champion??

9 Comments

lolipopevelynnMay 29, 20155 votes

funny. riot used irelia as a top example of "overloaded" kit in the past. then they made yasuo and ekko.

lol

Only Play DariusMay 29, 20151 votes

Did they really? LMFAO I have never seen her kit as overloaded.

Shit like Gnar Kalista is a completely different story.

Drunk RummateMay 29, 20155 votes

Yeah it's really dumb how she can just 100-0 you with just a sheen and her ultimate. Jumps on you from 1300 range because she killed a minion, stuns you and kills you before you can even respond to her damage. Just silly.

And you can't even win a sustained damage fight with her assuming you built tanky and survived that trade because she maxes Hiten Style and deals true damage while getting hp back lol.

aaronautumnMay 29, 20152 votes

pls dont be mean to irelia. she has feelings too

Critmaster GarenMay 29, 20151 votes

shes a pain for a lot of champions to deal with, but you can beat her by stacking attack speed slows.

ive had the most success with this: Nasus + item 3143 + item 3110

if you just play passive and build towards these items, you should be able to outscale her thanks to wither, frozen heart aura, and the passive as slow on randuins which all stack up.

and as a bonus, you can also severly cripple the opposing adc if you have to.

she cant really benefit from the true damage on her w, if her as is slowed so much, that she manages to attack you maybe twice during its duration.

by the way, the same works on jax or any other auto attack reliant champion.

GinoSoldierMay 29, 20151 votes

Just play Darius, Garen or any high-health Tank/Bruiser. She gets close? Smack her to death.

FalconPawwwwnchMay 29, 20151 votes

Because then ranged champions would dominate the entire game

Irelia is a necessary evil because Riot allowed ranged champions to permakite when they made LoL

CGJungMay 29, 20151 votes

At least irelia to 100-0 you has to build offensive items, and you won't believe but 100-0ing other champions is what a carry does, not like SOME champions who build full tank with ONE offensive item and then they become immortal gods who can kill you in 1 second under 100 towers shots and with your whole team on them.

Hard4HamstersMay 29, 20151 votes

Really I think it's her 2 second stun.. It's pretty oppressive if you have no tenacity. She really hasn't received as many nerfs as people think she has. She received one nerf to the base damage of her E recently but before that she had not received a nerf for 3 years. Speaking of 3 years ago, Triforce used to cost 4k gold. BoRK didn't exist, and recently (Season 5) we've seen her most used defensive items get cheaper: item 3110 item 3143 . Really, go check her patch history. Almost every nerf she has received was during 1 year span between March 2011-March 2012 (Between July 2011 and March 2012 she was untouched besides bug fixes), and with many of these nerfs, she received compensation in another area of the ability. In those 3 years when she hadn't received a nerf, she also got buffs to her base stats(not counting the change to armor based on Armor Seals being nerfed, or the change to movement speed).

She has a kit that is really hard to punish as she has 3 types of damage, built in tenacity, built in lifesteal, built in healing with her ult, and on top of all of that a 2 second targeted stun. There is a condition on landing it without it being a 60% slow, but if you are at equal health or she has just a tad less health than you, boom 2 second stun and now you are at half health because she unloaded all of her offense on you. I understand that this is her only form of CC, but you know who else has on form of CC in the form of a targeted stun? Taric and he isn't going to burst you down in the 1.6 seconds of his stun (although he was able to do that before they nerfed the shit out of his AP ratios).

I understand that with Irelia there are a lot of "if's" behind her power. She can stun you for 2 seconds IF she has lower or equal health % to you. She has one of the strongest ultimate's in the game IF she hits all of her blades, she dominates the mid game IF you can't punish her early. But to an experienced Irelia player, these don't mean much. She has a few unfavorable matchups in lane bullies such as Riven or Darius, but I feel like people just would rather there be more to winning against Irelia than simply having more damage than her.

All in all, I really don't think Irelia needs a large nerf, if she needs one at all. I may seem like I want her gutted, but I don't think she's in that bad of a spot game health wise. There are way worse offenders in the "lack of counterplay" department that need more attention, but if Irelia is to receive a nerf, I think it should be in her E and the duration of her CC.