Why would you go dmg before going tankiness in a lose matchup ?
Then, it's a meta problem, and especially tanks items who are bad so taking an AS magic resist item is better than taking HP magic resist with a passive made to reduce dmg dots.
Irelia is good vs ranged matchup only... Otherwise she is useless.
You can't 1 vs 1 a Mordekaiser, a Garen, a Darius... Only if they are bad but they are way easier than Irelia to play.
Irelia is too much nerfed, too much punitive. Why you would like to play a champ were not a single mistake is allowed ? You fail your E, you are dead, you fail your Q you are useless... You don't have your passive, you can't win trade...
Irelia is based on "perfection". It's need to change. We aren't perfection and we don't want to champ who is only based on "perfection". We needs some mistakes allowed.
The problem is her stupid kit who is too hard to balance. Riot has no choice except making her a "perfection champ" who is based on 0 mistakes possible if you want to be useful with her.
The other solution is to get feed by the jungler or by the opponent.
There is no "playing correctly" with Irelia, it's "playing perfect" but we aren't robots so we can't play "perfect" everytime.
The old Irelia was lacking of identity and gameplay for sure, but i hate the new one because constantly nerfed to the point that not a single mistake is allowed if you want to enjoy her.
Her passive is useless if it's not 5 stacks.
You can have 1, 2, 3 or 4 stacks, it's useless. Only the fifth stack is useful because it's bring the dmg she needs. After all it's useless to gain AS if you don't have dmg. It's pretty stupid because this passive is what makes her useless and OP at the same time.
4 stacks, it's useless but the 5th stack put her in a "god mode". This is not a crescendo, it's brutal.
They could have made like : she gains 4% AS and 4 AD per stack but no, it's full AS and the 5th bring enormous dmg.
Her W is lacking of dmg, people use this spell vs minions so they can dash with Q on them after and regen.
Her E has 18s CD at lvl 1... Don't deal signifiant dmg, only here for Q.
I love Irelia but i don't like the fact that you need to be TF Blade just to make the champion "viable". I played Azir, Taliyah... Hard champions and no ones gave me trouble like this new Irelia. I could do some mistakes even if it's was punished.
With Irelia ? No way, you can't do a mistake. You fail Q and you don't last hit correctly the minion, you get fcked.
You fail E, you can't dash and you get fcked twice because of the CD.
You don't have your passive fully stacked ? You can't trade, niet, not possible.
You don't have Trinity and Tiamat ? You don't have dmg, you are useless.