Patch 6.13 Irelia Ult Nerf...Why RIot

Smart Girl··2 votes·2,762 views

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/0a/0c/79/0a0c79a6e139cfffdfb4124e73222b47.jpg I honestly don't know where this even came from or what riot was thinkinking: "her ult is back up before you can say didn’t she just kill me with that?” and this experience has moved into “she killed me twice without recalling” territory. here is what really happened, irelia q you than STUNNED YOU and while you were stunned she pressed w which deals true damage when using basic attacks and then R if you already wernt dead by then. riot is nerfing the wrong damn thing. her R was also her one effective wave clear ability, if a huge minion wave appeared at bot lane she could teleport use her R because it only had a 50sec cooldown and q the remaining living but not anymore. now Leblanc has a better time wave clearing minions and all she has is her Q to do it. in a huge minion wave irelia would have to kill them one by one which would take....a while one could say well just q all of them but ALL of them would have to be low enough for irelia to q she will either die in a minion wave or give up a tower and that's bad if the rest of her team is dead or in a team fight you better hope you have a syndra or a lux.

2nd thing _this experience has moved into “she killed me twice without recalling territory _
she is an assassin and a tank, what did you expect! she is a top laner so people mainly build her as a tank or a hybrid of tank dmg so she can tank you but still have enough dmg to kill you, if anything you should be nerfing tank irelia (please don't)

THE REAL ISSUE irelia stuns Irelia W which makes her basic attacks deal true dmg and heals her (that's also why she can kill you twice without recalling) and irelia's Q which is refreshed when she kills a unit

her R does not hurt AS MUCH as her other abilities plus it's a skillshot just dodge it problem solved.

please excuse the punctuation

please tell me what you think in a respectful manner wrong way: "you're an idiot thats so stupid get off league you dummy" right way: "although your points are valid i must point out...."

12 Comments

Ralanr2 votes

You calling her an assassin and a tank makes me desire for her to be removed from the game. Which I already do.

Myrmiron2 votes

I promise you that nerfing her ult cooldown is way more impactful than it may seem on first glance. Irelia absolutely needs her ult to duel 3 out of 4 popular toplaners. This nerf will not only hit her snowballing, but also make it a lot easier for tanks to just farm it up like they usually want. I honestly think that as soon as Triforce gets changed again this nerf will prove to be too heavy and that she will need buffs then again. I would have preferred that they just left Irelia alone and instead buffed some currently weaker toplaners, like Riven and Renekton. Nerfing fun melee characters that have the potential to snowball just shows again that Riot doesn't like soloplayers and is probably jealous of Blizzards solution.

legionnaire991 votes

Didn't they do the same thing to talons ult

Myrmiron1 votes

Yes, in 6.5. Though the nerf wasn't as hard in the early, but harder in lategame compared to what they did to Irelia.

PapaGreg212 votes

I agree with you. I think her ultimate is one of the worst in the game already and was only used for good waveclear and some life steal because of the low cooldown.

DeathBurst1 votes

Her ult is a noticeable portion of her damage during an all-in fight, and that's why they are nerfing the ult CD. So that if you can bait it or tank it the first time, you can then heal and re-engage her while she has less damage available.

They want to open her up to hard engages and straight on fights in the right conditions. Nerfing her basic abilities would nerf her whole laning phase, it wouldn't make her only vulnerable to hard engages.

BeatzBoyFTW1 votes

Why did you stop reading on the first sentence....?

Reminder that item 3078 already gives 20% cdr, so her ult is usually up too often.

AetherKingdom1 votes

they needed to make her e cooldown scale down to 8 instead of being 8 at every level

AetherKingdom1 votes

in addition to the ult nerf

Irelia Bot1 votes

They should have also make Caitlyn traps only last for 20 seconds on the map but for some reason Riot did not.

AetherKingdom1 votes

i feel like cait w needs tweaks overall. early 20 seconds would be way too short, but right now lasting 90 seconds late game is ridic

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