The Public Execution of Irelia Xan

ZevBenjamin·1/25/2019, 3:18:23 PM·2 votes·790 views

She's always been a very hated champion. But RIOT seems to stand firm in their belief to the meme of "Better nerf Irelia". It may be time to redo the champion spotlight.

She's been nerfed to the point where all of her unique traits as a fighter shown in the spotlight has been removed. (300% damage to shields, disarm) W only reducing physical damage, Q base damage decreased, 4 to now 5 passive stacks with a reduction in attack speed and magic damage.

Look, I am all down for balancing this champion because I do believe she was over tuned in launch, but as she now sits at a 42% win rate and is consistently being hit with more heavier nerfs, i'm not so sure if RIOT has Irelia and her mains in their best intentions at this point.

5 Comments

SEKAI1/25/2019, 3:21:46 PM3 votes

This is a rare case of Riot actually taking out a champion's major gimmick out of their kit during the balancing process.

And they do it on a gimmick that WASN'T THE REASON THAT MADE THE CHAMPION OP.

At least do it on Akali's obscure or something, but no, let's do it on Irelia when her actual reasons for being OP is basically everything apart from the disarm.

Why am I still surprised by this, again?

Urgh.

ØrnnToGetTrolleÐ1/25/2019, 3:27:57 PM1 votes

LUL