Better buff Irelia

Shadow Hazard·Jul 11, 2017·1 votes·363 views

Despite the meme like nature of the post title, I think it is a relevant point with the incoming thornmail changes.

I can recognize that it was a change heavily geared against marksman that had the ability to drain tank off of tanky enemies thanks to life steal and especially botrk, basically toning down the safety that is out of hand with many of the ADC. But more than the champs that have heavy built in sustain alone (mundo, vlad, swain), there are a few champs that will have their fundamental kits and itemization hurt by both the attack speed slow and the grievous wounds, including irelia, there's also aatrox, xin who will be hurt VERY notably, in a similar way that the recent bami's/cinderhulk change helped tank junglers VERY notably.

3 Comments

Linna ExcelJul 11, 20172 votes

Irelia can just grab Bork as a second item though.

Eevee In A JarJul 11, 20172 votes

Man buffing Irelia would break her again and we'd go through the same cycle of nerfing her like 50 times. She just has one of those broken kits that's either in a shitty state or in a really strong state.

YokoNomiJul 11, 20171 votes

I think for something to quack like a duck, move like a duck, and fly like a duck, it should first involve the actual duck being there to begin with. The biggest thing to note is that in spite of glaring issues or otherwise with pbe changes or the like, changes will typically see the light of day if it's too far into development no matter what, unless we somehow get a special case, which doesn't happen often. But when it's there, that's when we can make our voice heard, not only in a circumstance that effects the more collective public, but in a circumstance that allow us to thoroughly test what may or may not evidently be an issue for the masses or a small minority.

We have to occasionally bite the bullet if we want proper change to follow suit.