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Can something be done about Irelia?

hudzell··2 votes·287 views

She is stupid strong right now cause of the triforce buffs, and from my experience she's just doing WAY too much damage. I thought she was supposed to be a bruiser/fighter not a goddamned assassin? (Even though yes, I do know that her secondary role says assassin, but come on) Taking out half my health with a W, auto attacks for 1.5 seconds and then a Q doesnt seem right.

It just seems like her damage a lot higher than before. She's been steamrolling in my ranked games (Low-mid gold) and she's near-impossible to stop when shes fed, due to her being able to build a triforce and then go full bruiser with a steraks, randuins, maybe even a mallet, etc. and just do shit loads of damage.

And you can't just "not feed her" because she has an extremely dominant laning phase against a large selection of champions. Lane bullies, duelists, CC tanks, bursty champions, all the lot. To "not feed her" would be just standing under my tower for fifteen minutes, yeah?

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lilpokfluf2 votes

She just has a surprising amount of burst but it's no better than any other bruiser. She just synergizes well with TF due to her high base AD.

I'm pretty sure Renekton and Darius still own her in lane. Jax and Shen also come to mind as well.

Aatrox Mid 1v51 votes

Irelia (to me atleast) is like a bruiser-duelist hybrid. she can build tanky and also has enough sustain to fight anyone. every duelists counter (and pretty much every champion) is getting outnumbered. but even if you do shut her down early, shes still going to get 75 true damage off her w later into the game, and build tanky at the same time. and if riot dares to touch her w it will ruin her. riot said they plan on reworking irelia in the future, but all I can see them doing to her is changing her e because its almost impossible to play around. Also stacking health will counter her true damage. too many times i see people go into lane building armor against her when behind. she deals a decent amount of mixed damage as well, so building armor is pretty useless.

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