Why was Irelia buffed?

your trolling right? out of all the fighters/tanks/bruisers whatever term you want to use to describe her, she was by far the weakest these past few patches.

^ in the last 3 seasons (including this one) he has only played Ire 3 or 4 times in ranked.. ^ blind

Because Irelia is in a horrible state this season/meta.

Now where are the Riven buffs?

Irelia main here. I actually did a thread saying I was against these buffs cause I don't see them having a desireable impact, and got downvoted for it. Apparently a lot of people think these buffs are justified. Basically what's wrong with Irelia right now is her items. -Triforce got remade and is now a lot worse on Irelia than before -All other items that were great on her got abused by other champions and then got nerfed (Steraks, Guinsoos, Maw, Dead Mans Plate, etc)

That's basically it, her items suck for her this season, her play and winrate is down, her counters are meta, and ADCs are a lot stronger and tankier this season (the guys she's supposed to kill don't die as easily anymore) so Riot buffs her a little.

I think buffing her is fine, but I also think the buff they have gone with only really lowered her skill cap instead of actually helping her succeed.

She was getting underplayed and honestly needed one as she was a bit too weak.

Js, irelia was shit these past few patches. Why do you think irelia jungle became a thing? What sucks is they didn't even buff what needed to be buffed.

No, I am obviously not an Irelia main.

Irelia has and still is weak, I'm not an Irelia main either in fact I have never played her but whenever I see an Irelia she is always getting stomped.

Probably just because her playrate is kind of low. She isn't particularly fun to play unless you lick windows in your down time. You can increase easy to play or boring to play champs' playrates if you just make them op as shit. Don't worry the uptick in her play will have people calling for nerfs within the days end.

#make fighters great again

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Was anybody complaining that she was too weak (besides Irelia mains)?

So your argument is that unless a champion is complained about being a certain way, that champion isn't? Your argument is that the act of complaining changes the qualities of a champion?

Underplayed and 47% winrate. Considering she does well against a lot of champions being played top, except direct AD counters, you'd expect her to be doing well.

Yeah, you should put some time into the champ.

She just doesn't function anymore. Irelia's damage in the mid game is entirely based on Tri-force. If you don't build it on her you just Lawl at the fact every other item in the game is garbage on a mid game champ. They also don't do anything for the mid game because practically all of them but T-force are scaled for late game scaling.

So now you have a mid game champ with mid game scaling relying on late game items, when she clearly does not scale into late game at all. I do agree with that guy up there that these buffs will probably do nothing.

I barely consider this a buff when it was merely mana reduction and a tiny-ass ratio improvement. I'd call it a QoL change more so than anything.

Tri-Force is still very core to her build and the recent changes to it were not that great for Irelia (or Hecarim for that matter). 5 less AD value and no AP value (was 30) cuts out notable damage from her Ult. It's effectively 3 less damage from AD and 15 less damage from AP per blade. So with 4 blades in a 1v1 trade, Irelia does 72 less damage and heals herself 18 less than before (blades have 25% vamp). Her Equilibrium strike (E) had a 50% AP scaling, so it does 15 less damage at the start of every trade. So considering your normal trade starts with a Q to a near death minion, followed with E, press W and spam R with AA... well the numbers with old Tri-Force clearly will outperform the new Tri-Force.

I'm not sure why they buffed her Q. It already has a flat 35 mana refund and CD reset on kill so it wasn't an expensive skill if used properly. The 120% AD is nice, since she is one of the few that still has a skill that scales off base AD instead of bonus AD. Q farming will be cheaper and easier, which only helps the people that had issues farming. I don't see it actually improving her ability to duel, since Q is normally used to gap close to a near death minion to start your trade. You can't really use it on your opponent to initiate the fight as it might reduce the effectiveness of her E (stun is better than a slow).

Great vs. Heimerdinger and Aurelion Sol in my experience.