How do you stop an Irelia?

Furfrou·Apr 13, 2015·3 votes·788 views

Seriously how? Last two games yes I suck I'm bronze blah blah but even if our top lane shuts her down horribly and all the lanes "win" as you would put it(Towers down, have 3 or 4 kills on their lane with few deaths) she can easily just waltz into any lane and kill whoever is in it while having only a spirit visage.I mean she seems like the original I can do anything champion.I assume she isnt devastating for people in high elo and that will be an argument if anyone replys but for us in bronze,silver and gold how do you stop this monster without ganking her constantly.

9 Comments

MalzaharAnyLaneApr 13, 20152 votes

Ignite.

Irelia's best feature isn't her CC or damage, it's her sustain and CC resistance.

If you shut down her sustain and are going at least even with her, then the rest is just trading properly or freezing the lane.

GodhriApr 13, 20151 votes

I'm not sure what you expect for an answer.......... what you can do is dependent on your team composition, your champion you are using and how you use that champion/team comp.

IcyPepperApr 13, 20151 votes

item 3110 item 3075 . Armor to counter botrk if she builds it, and health to counter her W. If you're AP, item 3165 isn't terrible to have, maybe.

colesyApr 13, 20151 votes

you play malphite, absolutely destroy her attack speed and spam laugh emote.

here's the thing with irelia. after her trinity force is done, she hits hard but she's squishy, so focus her. later on in the game her damage drops off and she's a pretty average team fighter with a single target stun to engage which normally forces her to use her dash (so she can't disengage) so if he team doesn't immediately follow up she'll get destroyed.

also, darius destroys her in lane. literally just don't play a squishy champion and you'll have no problem, she's purposely built to assassinate carries.

SaiannaApr 14, 20151 votes

Are you sure about squishy part? In most cases Irelia needs just 1 or 2 AD items ( item 3078 item 3153 ) and rest tank items to deal serious damage..

She has 2 sustain abilities..
Perfect passive for teamfights

colesyApr 14, 20151 votes

very squishy. what generally happens when I play her is I push down my tower and then start to roam to push other lanes or fight over dragon, and in those early team fights you will get absolutely shredded to pieces and barely make it out alive unless your team is ahead enough that you can spike down targets quickly enough. her sustain on W is like almost irrelevant for team fights as well. obviously later on she tanks up and becomes a lot harder to kill, but when she finishes her trinity she's pretty squishy and she'll be squishy for even longer if she decides to go botrk second.

she literally just dies to focus. if she dives your adc, unload all of your cc on her and she melts. she'll be stuck in your backline while her team will be trying to play catch up in those precious few seconds. just don't 1v1 her, she destroys carries and she can destroy people 1v1 by staggering her abilities for more spellblade procs.

DropFillApr 13, 20151 votes

You cry. Malphite doesn't stop her from wrecking your backline in teamfights.

WalkingInACircleApr 14, 20151 votes

Irelia has all the problems of the "Fighter Problem." She doesn't have a real role in an organized team fight. She doesn't have the cc of a tank, nor the burst of an assassin, nor the dps of a carry. The best she can really do is dive the enemies backline. This most likely results in being peeled and killed by an organized team.

She's also kiteable. A long stun and a gapcloser, but if you survive her burst an adc can kite her without too many problems.