I think I want old Irelia back.

Chimp Joker··5 votes·2,738 views

I usually liked many of the reworks that's been made on champs since season 5 when I started out playing league. Irelia's rework however leaves me bit bitter inside. The her signature dash ability is there which is very fun, but the way she is now just makes it hard to play her. She sucks at top lane, the one lane you would find her ( both pre and post rework). Her mid lane is was too good, then riot nerfed her (deservedly) so she sucks there. And now I see players bring her bot lane, (mainly due to the crit item changes) and that's her best lane. Preying on weak ADCs who cant handle all-ins unless they have a good support that can peel and disengage a fight. Her kit is just a balance issue where I would want to see Riot buff her a bit but that little "inch" is gonna go far to the fucking moon and she'll just go back to her old OP self from a few patches ago. IMO it's like they made another Yasuo, but at the very least I'm used to his bullshit. I can barely get a chance to play my main because everyone just bans her. It just makes me sad. At least with old Irelia she didnt feel binary. It's not like "she was shit every patch but when there's that one change Riot made, it helped her be stupidly strong. " She was a stable champ. Feelsbadman

OK rant done. Just wanted to get that out of my chest.

8 Comments

Ralik0982 votes

This rework is morde tier right now, just a complete mess.

  1. Changed her playstyle - She feels almost nothing like the old one
  2. Change what lane she is good in - Her best lane right now is bot lane... wtf??
  3. Turned her from a mediocre champ that no one banned to a champ that is banned almost every game because her new kit is so toxic to play against.
  4. Old Irelia was never as bad as the new one is right now after the nerfs

The people saying the changes made her healthier for the game are ridiculous. Old Irelia never had a banrate this high and never had this many complaints about her both from people who play her and those people that didn't play her. I played Irelia all the way from season one and I quit league because of this rework. I'd gladly take a revert of this rework, probably the only way I would ever support Riot again.

ZevBenjamin1 votes

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This rework is morde tier right now, just a complete mess.

  1. Changed her playstyle - She feels almost nothing like the old one
  2. Change what lane she is good in - Her best lane right now is bot lane... wtf??
  3. Turned her from a mediocre champ that no one banned to a champ that is banned almost every game because her new kit is so toxic to play against.
  4. Old Irelia was never as bad as the new one is right now after the nerfs

The people saying the changes made her healthier for the game are ridiculous. Old Irelia never had a banrate this high and never had this many complaints about her both from people who play her and those people that didn't play her. I played Irelia all the way from season one and I quit league because of this rework. I'd gladly take a revert of this rework, probably the only way I would ever support Riot again.

Now i wonder what people on this post think lol, cause she strong af rn

Ralik0982 votes

The main problems to me are not really with how strong she is. More that the new kit is just not true to the old champion at all and she is horribly obnoxious to play against now and it makes her hard to even get in a game.

ZevBenjamin1 votes

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The main problems to me are not really with how strong she is. More that the new kit is just not true to the old champion at all and she is horribly obnoxious to play against now and it makes her hard to even get in a game.

Tbh i love new Irelia but i do think she needs some tuning. Even as an Irelia main i can say shes kinda busted. And i dunno, I don't really agree, the Q is what everyone hates even though that's always been the Irelia thing. Shes always had a stun, and her W was just the tenacity in her old passive moved to a skill. The R is new and cool, maybe a bit overloaded with the disarm / damage, lock down / Q reset.

TitanAnteus1 votes

All reworked champions have a set of players who miss the old version. When akali gets reworked you'll see akali mains lamenting the lack of old Akali. Even though people have been begging for a Mordekaiser rework, when he gets reworked there's going to be a firestorm of "not my mordekaiser"

That's just the nature of these changes. The champion you played is pretty much gone. The newer one has mechanics that are meant to be more healthy for the game as a whole.

Chimp Joker2 votes

I agree that these old champs should be reworked to make the game healthier. The problem lies when it just doesnt end up that way. A champ that gets reworked is pretty cool. But then they are discovered to be top-tiered OP and the game goes straight to hell, leaving the balance team having to nerf the champ until they are not fun to play. If in the end Riot reworks and then nerfs the champs into levels of shit to the point of no one having fun, I'd much rather they go back and change some things or bring back the old champ. Something must be done.

I'm not the kind of player who sees his main reworked and immediately says, "THIS ISNT MY CHAMPION." It's been weeks, months since Irelia's rework and given the state of things, I only want to see some changes being made to her. If they cant even do that, then the rework has failed. (No flame good sir)

Daddybonerneeded1 votes

I think you need help.

ankoanko191 votes

God I fucking miss old Irelia. I just get so many good memories thinking of Season 4-6 and pre bramble. The current one is quite a good rework but Riot just doesnt know how to balance her properly.

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