Due to Irelia mid being picked competitively in both pro play and soloque as a counter to most mages, wouldn't it be more viable to change her base stats (namely her base magic resist and scaling mr) to become weaker versus mages while not losing her dueling power against all bruisers? I know it's not a full solution but this could be the first step to balancing her for mid.
Mordepool1 votesYes please. She has everything under the Sun. Except for a weakness
Elminster71 votesAgree that she scales insanely well and snowballs hard but that isnt the point of this post. Lane/position priority isn't as much of a factor as the champions she ends up facing in each role. Against squishy champs, namely mages, she excels but ends up being countered and stat-checked by many bruisers. Her only role in the mid-late game is to be an assassin/diver and like every other assassin she becomes more efficient if she's worked up a lead already.
Beacon Academy1 votesimo they need to place a flat limit on how much damage her W can mitigate, so mages can outburst the mitigation and her passive needs to be AD only so she can't do mixed damage to bully out non-sustain top laners.