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Riot thinks Irelia is weak

x Wyvern x·11/26/2018, 2:06:33 PM·2 votes·1,436 views

But she has over 20% pickrate and 50% banrate, and everyone complains about her, she is also my top 1 permaban and seems to win every time she is in a game.

So, they are either giving us fake stats and making her the most op champion in several seasons (its not the first time they change winrate data for the sake of not see people complain that much) or she has several other problems.

It doesnt matter if her winrate is high or not, the problem here is how dominant she is and how little people can do against her, which translates in a huge ban and pick rate.

They shouldnt just nerf her, they need to adress her abilities and admit they did wrong with her, thats my opinion but i'm pretty sure most people would like to see her weaknesses exploitable, right now she doesnt even seem to have them.

She should be able to be bursted down if she one shots with mobility or she should only be able to be a decent dps tank if she is tanky enough, not both because that likely means she is a juggernaut with mobility and there is nothing most champions can do against her.

I'm not a magician with changes but here is what i would do to her, buffs or nerfs later but as changes: -W damage reduction should reduce damage progressively and not when you press the key, this means you have to predict the actual burst and not just missclick it and get back safe. -Irelia Q stacks should be shown below her health bar, just like annie's passive, because that is how strong it is. -Irelia should be waaay more squishy than she is. -Ultimate should have a longer windup animation, right now, its pretty impossible to dodge it or do anything against it. -Decrease base damage for Q, starting ad and ad per level, but increase q, e and r scaling a bit, that way she wont be able to abuse the same dominant build again.

I'm not an Irelia main and i'm not even good with her, but whenever i see one, i cant help it but lose against her, if she is this dominant and riot doesnt adress her and continue buffing her or memeing with -5ms i will permaban her until season 2020 if needed.

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Albus Rumbledore11/26/2018, 4:07:36 PM3 votes

they are either giving us fake stats and making her the most op champion in several seasons (its not the first time they change winrate data for the sake of not see people complain that much)

source?

She should be able to be bursted down if she one shots with mobility or she should only be able to be a decent dps tank if she is tanky enough, not both because that likely means she is a juggernaut with mobility and there is nothing most champions can do against her.

Isn't it problem of holy trinity of bruisers(item 3078 item 3748 item 3053 )?

I played only like 70+ games on her from silver to dia elo and I have to say

  1. IMO she is actually not that hard and that is mainly bcs of her passive and how easy it is to hit ult
  2. She actually have some annoying counters(Anivia Orianna Yasuo VladimirJax ) and huge amount of skill match ups
  3. As I said she is just milking that bruisers items to maximum
  4. It actually feels like ppl fear her little bit too much, especialy in our elo where it is very rare to encounter good ire

Possible nerf IMO:

  1. Very little number changes in her passive
  2. Higher mana cost on Q to lower her early aggression/maybe higher cd little bit so if she miss her stuff it will take longer to threat you again
  3. Make her ult "dodgable"

So yeah she is strong, on the other hand I encounted many bad ones, to the point where they were just jumping around and doin nothing, but I feel the pain, when she is 10/0 3v1 walks away with 1/3 hp and you just sit there with confussed face, but still when anything is 10/0 you will prob lose.