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irelia nerfs are COMPLETELY Pointless,unhealthy and stupid & push her WAY more at Mid rather Top

AlexTheGrandWolf·1/17/2019, 7:29:34 AM·2 votes·1,599 views

for people who dont know the nerfs are: Riot is completely removing irelia’s disarm , decreasing her ult duration by one second , removing double damage to minions and removing shield piercing and to compensate they just added 100dmg to her ult and “bonus damage to minions for q”...

Irelia My Rant: The 100 + dmg to ult is a completely unhealthy and stupid comensetion.. and removing the double dmg from q and replacing it with bonus damage is a straight up nerf.. Their excuse is to be able to kick her out of mid lane but this doesn’t do shit.. and why remove her from mid?

They try to promote picking your champion in any lane and they try to kick irelia out of mid because she’s too broken.. when she has a 45% WIN RATE AT MID LANE??? She has 47% winrate at top and 45% at mid..

Good god people at riot are dumb...not just gutting her but they think she is unhealthy as in she can’t be balanced like ryze or Kalista or azir and this is the most logical solution the come too..

But then they add the god damn 100+ dmg at ult ? That is unhealthy and useless at the same time.. honestly if the changes come out exactly as they are I am betting she’s gonna have about a 42% win rate

Irelia The Reason its a major buff for mid and a MAJOR nerf for top:

The "buff"/"Nerf" is pushing her MORE onto mid rather than top. Even though most of the time they wont exit her ult , disarm is mroe usable at top than mid since top champs are mostly bruisers and mid has more mages.

  • Also the slow helps againsts mages more than bruisers and tanks since they dont even use their auto attack to combo you, so buffing her slow is also a buff to mid.

  • The Shield piercing remove is also tilted more to a nerf to top than mid since the only heavy shielders i can think of mid lane are Orianna, Diana and lux.

  • Where as Top lane there are many examples Of Shields including: Ornn,cammile,malphite,poppy,maokai,nautilous and WAY MORE.

2 Comments

On My Kill List1/17/2019, 9:05:05 AM2 votes

how about nerf her to the gutter and leave her there for 2 years?

Hypheas1/17/2019, 8:04:09 PM2 votes

Yeah as an irelia main honestly it's already enough that they've taken away her stun duration increase and her second w ferver stack, once i heard of this i lost it. just because a bunch of silvers or lower aren't good enough at the game to fight her consistently doesn't mean she's broken, if you play well she's easily dealt with :/ i think it's going to be hard to play her after this, anywhere in high elo i doubt she'll be a concern and all they're doing is ruining a good champion.