I decided to try out Irelia

Elohaven··8 votes·4,539 views

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Hardly play the champion or mid but I pop off 11-0. I understand she's getting nerfed next patch but I want to give my thoughts.

Their team had no way of stopping me once I used my ultimate.

It's wide diameter, it's cage, and the disabling of ADCs is super oppressive to the backline. My W was only used to counter Zed and not much to it. The E's hitbox was wonky so it was easier to target people. The Q just allowed me to escape.

Imagine if this was on an ADC.

Midlane would probably be the easiest lane to carry from right now.

Here's what I would like to see on Irelia, considering I played her a couple of times after her rework:

  • Q Punishment increased

  • If she misses an execution/reset on her Q, her cooldown should be higher

  • Or reduce its scaling significantly

  • E hitbox reduced

  • It's like a thick rectangle but the actual animation looks like a thin line. Make the sides of the line thicker but the thin blur a very thin hitbox.

  • R

  • This ability is way too oppressive. There's only one CC-free exit point for ADCs/marksmen and that's Irelia's entrance.

  • It allows her to easily just burst them and get a free Q reset. 2-Qs are about half their HP and you can easily weave auto attacks in between with Conqueror. You also can land E easily.

  • Remove the slow from disarm

  • If not either of the above, then reduce her R hitbox significantly but that would lead to clunky animation/looks

I believe one of these changes are good.

10 Comments

DontTouchMyBall8 votes

I Know Right???

"Let's all just pretend she is balanced and fix her after 6-12 months."

  • Rito :^^^^^^^^)

[slayer-jinx-wink]

IT3etlWEXJ3 votes

Lmfao. One game of Irelia in a Gold 5 solo queue game means you're qualified to make balance changes these days?

hi ìm groot1 votes

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Lmfao. One game of Irelia in a Gold 5 solo queue game means you're qualified to make balance changes these days?

Ya, "one game" if u ignore the 6/8/1 irelia game he did before it XD

Elohaven1 votes

No - I've had several games on Irelia.

I'm not a mid-main at all but I made this post since considering I'm someone who doesn't play mid much and am doing well with Irelia with snowballs, it shouldn't be a thing.

DW Diana2 votes

its just the meta guys. Hypermobile Hypercarries are the thing. bruisers were the answer toplane, so now they are mid too. Won't be long before Fiora/Irelia/Attrox mid becomes the norm. Especially with new Attrox coming soon (can't wait! xD)

Salson2 votes

It's wide diameter, it's cage, and the disabling of ADCs is super oppressive to the backline. My W was only used to counter Zed and not much to it. The E's hitbox was wonky so it was easier to target people. The Q just allowed me to escape. Imagine if this was on an ADC.

It would be great, too many of them are damage stat balls. They're also ranged. And just one look at Lucian and seeing how much stuff he needs to have in his kit to compensate for 50 range is enough to see how strong of a stat it is.

Also, while Irelia is a monster, she is still an anti-range champion. She will shit harder on Marksmen then Bruisers, and can be torn to pieces by Yasuo/Fiora/Jax both now and when her numbers become balanced.

Add922 votes

Also Irelia has the longest AA range of all melees which is 200 .

Nice work RITO . she can be dumpstered in lane and yet win games in team fights . she will never be useless

abca982 votes

Funniest thing is that they even showed themselves how bullshit the E hitbox was in the champion reveal. Like "we don't give 2 fucks, we know the visuals don't match the hitbox, and it's going to stay like that".

ArfBarkBoof2 votes

It still baffles me that absolutely nothing interrupts her W.

ankoanko191 votes

In a normals nonetheless. Why didnt you first time her in ranked if she is so braindead and op as you make her out to be? And seriously, nerf her Q scaling? What scaling? It deals a flat 90 physical dmg + 70% of her AD at max rank, it deals less dmg than an auto in the first 3 ranks. Her old Q combined with W, now that was some scaling. The new Q only deals actual dmg if you have on hit items and your passive is fully stacked.

She is op but she is not Kassadin season 4 level as the boards make her out to be.

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