An Insiders view on why Irelia *should* be nerfed.

When Irelia gets behind, she's not really behind. I can remember several games where despite me being ahead with 2 more full items, Irelia could "outplay me" simply using the base power in her kit.

Then when Irelia gets ahead, she becomes a monster who the whole team has to totally focus on or risk losing teamfights simply because she has that much presence, where even being in the teamfight probably means they win by default.

irelia haters are just a bunch of QQers who got greedy by diving a 25% irelia under tower

gbay99 is a great youtuber. He puts out a video every day now, and he has a lot of variety in his videos. I'm dreading the amount of "Better Nerf Irelia" spam that comes after this (though she has only had one nerf in 3 years now), but I'm giving this my upvote. I'm not really under the impression that Irelia is super OP right now, but she has been consistently strong in any meta and becomes very strong in more favorable metas, and I think it really speaks to what gbay points out; she isn't really punished for falling behind as much as other champions in the same class (midgame power carries).

Anyway. That's just my opinion. Feel free to comment. Peace.

"Bad play does not get punished." That is so true. I wish more people in my bronze/silver games noticed how dangerous she is. I don't see her often, but she comes back so easily if she loses lane, which she rarely does because of who is current popular picks. She either wins it, or goes even and moves on. You have to almost try to feed as an Irelia in most match ups.

All that's ever played top lane in my games is , and , who when playing against her, farms for a late game that rarely comes because of her.

The champions that naturally give her a hard time are , but I don't see them as often. So she's in a very good spot right now, on top of how forgiving her game play is compared to the majority of top laners.

If she's able to help other lanes succeed, then you're going to have more than one problem on your hands. It's the worst. This is usually what I see Irelia players do if they think that they won't be able to carry on their own because she'll be targeted.

thats just people not respecting your cc tankyness and healing. and then later on damage that like saying an adc shouldnt have any damage if they lost early and fianlly got their bf sword

Riot is trying very hard to fix the "bad plays going unpunished" !!!!

they are on the case and released Kalista and Tahm kench to help

(sarcasm)

Come at me

Anyway, can't speak for anyone higher elo than me, but down here, I can keep her in check

Yeah, right? She's so unfun to play against.

Someone says to nerf Irelia? Better nerf Irelia.

I don't quite think she needs a nerf. She's certainly not under powered, but shes not quite over powered either. She brings a lot to the table, but she has weaknesses as well. At most, she might need a slight tweak here and there. Perhaps the tenacity from her passive lowered a bit so that the enemy team can give their squishies a little more breathing room?