Another balance failure to Irelia, when will they ever decide to nerf the biggest flaw in her kit?

ExplodingFist66··6 votes·2,342 views

This just came through on the PBE:

Flawless Duet (E) range lowered from 850 to 775 cooldown increased from 14/13/12/11/10 to 18/16.5/15/13.5/12

Every single nerf to her is just a meme, but not as bold as that -5 MS. Anyways, this change isn't all that bad, no one's complaining that her E is frustrating but quite frankly it's easy to dodge, only good Irelia players will hit it once in a while. A nerf is a nerf, better than nothing right? Yes but there are some cons, its first off showing Riot's insensitivity to not actually looking at the champion's kit and detecting anything actually wrong within it. The real flaw in her kit is her passive:

Irelia gains 1 Ionian Fervor stack for every enemy champion hit by her abilities, or if she hits at least one non-champion, stacking up to 5 times. Ionian Fervor lasts for 6 seconds, with basic attacks against champions and large and epic monsters refreshing the duration. Irelia gains 8% − 12% (based on level) Attack speed icon bonus attack speed per stack, up to 40% − 60% (based on level). At maximum stacks, Irelia's basic attacks deal 15 − 66 (based on level) (+ 25% bonus AD) Ability power bonus magic damage on-hit.

Do you see anything wrong here? Yeah, I know what you're thinking. She gains 40% attack speed at LVL 1 as well as just an additive giving bonus 15 magic damage for whatever reason at 5 stacks of Ionian fervor, can't forget conqueror too. This means she beats every duel unless she's braindead AFK. No other champion can even come close to this with exception to Jax I guess.

It's so simple, all you have to do lower her attack speed to like 20-25% at level 1 and lower the damage to like 8-10. Make it scale harder so like ramp the AD scaling up to 35% and call it a day. The only other problem I see is her Q, probably the most problematic ability. It's an instant gap closer that resets every time. I'd suggest changing its mana cost to 50 and make it only refund 50% of the mana on minion execute or mark proc. This way she'll actually have some weaknesses during laning phase when she can't just constantly spam Q like its URF, she actually gets punished for overusing (loses mana).

9 Comments

Hayaishi24 votes

Yeah lets make her passive useless whenever its not at 5 stack. Irelia gets outscaled by most fighters 1v1, she's good at snowballing and thats it.

Saezio1 votes

Yeah, Unless you can play her properly. xD

Z3Sleeper3 votes

Haha yeah let's make her passive useless haha.

Meanwhile Jax's only grants a maximum of 28% AS level 1 after autoing 8 times through which he has to wait for his AA timer every time. Darius has to get 5 bleed stacks on a champion to access his 30 AD and +13 (+30% AD) DPS bleed.

Irelia? Q 5 minions then proceed to gain 40% AS and 15 (+25% bAD) damage on-hit.

Oh but she gets outscaled hahahaha. No she gets more ways to access her passive even faster without even having to Q minions at all. Meanwhile Darius and Jax still stack theirs as slowly as ever (bar some extra AS they build to help with it, but Jax 8 autos is still slower than Irelia ERQWQ).

Let's not forget that she scales better than almost every fighter in the game in terms of teamfight presence.

Saezio4 votes

That's an increased CD not lowered

ExplodingFist661 votes

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That's an increased CD not lowered

Looks like the SurrenderAt20 editors fault

SuperTopLFBottom2 votes

Well ive been saying the same thing. This nerf is only directed at midlane irelia cuz riot doesnt give a fuck that irelia destroys everyone toplane due to her r%%%%%ed passive early.

She needs her passive early nerfed hard, buff the scaling change the mark mechanic so she cannot triple Q and oneshot any squishy.

Stone0cean1 votes

Wait are you not happy that Irelia gets a Darius passive that actually works better and that really doesnt matter if you use your kit as long as you get all your stacks and auto them to death

karmyBronzeSmurf1 votes

I hope irelia will get a buf!!!

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