Irelia is a champion that soaks tons of damage and sustains all that damage back up. Im not even going to talk about her stun or true damage. With Flask she is the jack of all trades, unbeatable sustain and tank. Shes worth the ban at her current state, destroying everyone she fights in the top lane.
IcyPepper3 votesYou're complaining about her melee stun that's dependent on her health? Or her W that can be countered by building health? Or that she's aa reliant for her W sustain so you could build 
that will hard counter it, and maybe 
to deal damage while she's in melee range to stun you that will also deal damage as she tries to use her W?
Hell, you can even build 
or something to further hurt your laning.
These items are mostly useful on tanks or bruisers, but if you're playing a squishy top laner you can probably kite and out-cc her anyway. Like 
colesy2 votesno she does not "sustain all that damage back up", her stun is conditional, her true damage drops off, and any champion with a flask start can sustain for a good while.
she has a hard time laning against champions like olaf and darius, and you have skill match ups like jax and riven too. she's not worth the ban when you have champions like hecarim that can bully lane and then be team fighting monstrosities and duelists at the same time.
Beoridas2 votesevery bruiser has an anti-tank stat or execute. True dmg, max health dmg, heavy mixed dmg, % armor pen. Irelia is designed to be a duelist against the odds. the passive is for this, the W is for this, the E is SPECIALLY for this. she has to time it well. cause it has cd you know. (not the passive obv)
Rico Nasty2 votesalthough Irelia is obviously on the stronger side right now, i only think she needs a few tweaks, not really nerfs. +1, you got your point across, maybe a little too strong but i agree.
LilxPaprika1 votesI think she's okay. I think its partly because other champion are underwhelming ATM.
I would have preferred they increased the conditional on her e however instead of just nerfing its DMG.
If her e had a shorter stun if she was above 75% health. Right now she can be 1% hp less than her opponent and get the full value of her e. Its particularly annoying when she stuns an adc, and since lifesteal was nerfed whatever damage was dealt to the adc during that lengthy stun cannot be replenished nearly as fast forcing the adc to retreat all together.
I get the idea that she's taking a risk because she's lower on health than her opponent. But in many cases theres no risk involved.
Aww Kat1 votesIf you bully her she almost has to trade back.. If she trades back with a E,W,Q she will usually use almost half of her mana.. You can get her to no mana soo fast, then take advantage.
Laughing Fish1 votesBetter nerf Irelia.
