"Irelia has been allowed to be OP for 3 years."

Truthteller·3/14/2015, 4:40:29 AM·30 votes·3,856 views

Incoming Irelia nerfs on PBE:

Equilibrium Strike (E) damage lowered to 80/120/160/200/240 from 80/130/180/230/280

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"Bitch plz, come at me Rito"

43 Comments

The Storm Dragon3/14/2015, 4:53:30 AM22 votes

Are you implying that's a meaningful nerf? 'cause it's not the damage on ES that I'd be concerned about.

TrentBatNA3/14/2015, 4:58:33 AM9 votes

better nerf irelia

disregardable3/14/2015, 4:53:01 AM6 votes

#######betternerfirelia

LankPants3/14/2015, 7:39:52 AM5 votes

Wait Irelia's been OP for 3 years?

I thought she was considered to be trash for most of S3 and S4.

ProfDrDeath3/14/2015, 10:28:55 AM4 votes

Better nerf Irelia indeed.

Decades-old memes aside, she has proven to be really strong lately, to a degree that did indeed warrant a nerf. However, what (in my eyes) should be done with her is the following:

  • Change Equilibrium Strike to physical damage. Currently, Irelia can level E and get a really strong magical nuke (due to high base damage) and long CC - while building for physical damage with Phage and Sheen-empowered auto-attacks.
  • Have the stun duration scale from half to full with the actual difference in absolute %-HP. The remainder of the duration would be the slow. For example, a rank 5 E of an Irelia with 0.01% HP less than you would stun you for 1 second, then slow you for another one.
  • If it nerfs her too hard (or E max proves still to be problematic), add a slight total AD ratio to the damage, while lowering the base to some degree (so she has the same damage at a desired breakpoint).

Changing E to physical damage gives Irelia's opponents a way to actually deal with her (buy some armor), but might also open up new itemization options for Irelia herself (how about some penetration?). The latter especially if the AD ratio is added.

BeerOfRoot48433/14/2015, 7:23:11 PM1 votes

This will only affect AP Irelia, lol. I only notice the damage on it early game. Good thing they didn't nerf it early game.

4262873/14/2015, 8:03:35 PM1 votes

Better Nerf Irelia

Boswick3/14/2015, 8:34:49 PM1 votes

"Allowing her to be OP" would kind of imply that riot hasn't been nerfing the shit out of her since release...

Conturbatio3/14/2015, 8:48:17 PM1 votes

Are you sure that a damage nerf to her CC ability was what she needed? It's like nerfing Taric's E damage and not the duration itself (not complaining about Taric, just an example about how pointless it is to nerf the damage of a point-click 2 seconds stun, although he doesn't have 2 seconds)

Aziriously3/14/2015, 10:52:30 PM1 votes

I thought we were done calling an okay-at-best champion "OP." C'mon now.

yukumari3/14/2015, 5:28:06 AM1 votes

I'm not sure why Riot is nerfing Irelia AGAIN. It's not too bad of a nerf, but it's still frustrating that she barely saw play for the longest time, wasn't touched at all, and now that the meta has shifted in her favor, she gets nerfed because of it .-.

Krinu3/14/2015, 10:33:28 AM1 votes

As a part-time casual Irelia player, I have to say... "buh?"

WTB rework so the kit isn't a repeat customer at the nerf emporium.

Schteltzer3/14/2015, 3:01:04 PM1 votes

item 3070

warpenguin5553/14/2015, 3:35:25 PM1 votes

hey, atleast with lee you can item 3340 and avoid. but irelia was another level of bs