Just a thought for the Irelia rework that will come someday

Toastersaot··1 votes·379 views

I just wanted to post something about Irelia as a player who constantly goes Top lane, and always sees here there.

I absolutely despise playing against her. Although a lot of champions I play Top are countered by her (Gangplank ,Vladimir ) she is just way too frustrating to deal with sometimes.

What I really don't like about her are two things: Her E stun and her W True damage being all base damage.

Her E stun is pretty simple. It basically rewards Irelia for stupidly burning her health. She is REWARDED for being low in lane. If she loses a trade, she E stuns you then beats you a bit, then rinse and repeat.

Her W True Damage being all Base damage is really annoying, because that means she doesn't have as much incentive to build damage, and because she can almost always catch up when behind, since it's base damage that only needs exp for levels, not gold.

I really recommend putting an AD ratio on her W true damage. This means that Irelia is rewarded for more offensive builds, just like how Jax get great benefits from building damage as well as tank.

Just some things I want to say about Irelia. She's annoying to fight and I will keep banning her every game.

4 Comments

55976771DEL21 votes

E is meant to be rewarded because of her lore duh.

HO LEE FAKKK1 votes

this is why irelia is such a good dueler. Irelia is pretty meta, so she wont get a rework anytime soon. i believe she is a good duelist. This is why she is pretty decent early game. Trust me, i play top and jg most if not all of the time. Her true damage is another reason for good duelist. I recommend finding a pick to counter people such as her.

WoonStruck1 votes

How about this:

1)Give Irelia regular Dao to fight with and change her R, possibly W. She no longer synergizes with item 3078 nearly as much, and her gameplay has nothing to do with telekinetic blades.

Why? Because her lore is 100% about being an against-all-odds warrior from Ionia. Not a telekinetic blade-wielding warrior.

Instead of changing her because he weapon barely matches gameplay or lore, change her fucking weapon to the regular, non-spirit version of what she has: Dao. No reason to delete a champ that's perfectly fine outside of the weapon.

  1. Make an actual telekinetic warrior as a new champion, because the only way to make Irelia fulfulling as a telekinetic warrior is to essentially delete everything about her, which hasn't happened with ANY of the other reworks.
WoonStruck1 votes

She isn't rewarded for being low in lane either way. If you're able to get her low and you can't kill her, you have a problem.

If you're also low, you're trading incorrectly with her.

I wonder what you'd say if tank renekton were still bullying everyone out of lane, and he was considered the golden standard of top lane. If you think Irelia's frustrating, you have some fundamental laning tactics you need to learn.

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