I'm actually upset about the Irelia nerfs in 8.15

ZevBenjamin·7/25/2018, 6:02:23 PM·4 votes·1,806 views

I would like to vent out my frustration and hope i can get some critical feedback about the recent changes to come in terms of Irelia.

Buffing her passive was pretty decent as she needed (+4 bonus magic damage per stack), BUT then you decide to flat out nerf everything else on her across the board. Nerfed her AD scaling by 10%, her Q dealing 5-15 less AD based on rank? Nerfed E & R ranged by 50?

No i'm sorry, but to me this is completely undeserving. This is not a buff at all, it's a gut on a champion that's already struggling at a 46% win-rate.

She's under-performing as it is, how in the hell is this going to help her? The "Better Nerf Irelia" meme really isn't funny anymore.

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Wolfalisk3187/25/2018, 6:45:28 PM1 votes

Full disclosure, I'm Silver, so I'm pretty bad at the game. Take what I say with a grain of salt. The impact Irelia has on my games is not okay, whether she's on my team or the enemy team. She can't be shut down and is the primary threat on the opposite team no matter how poorly she has played.

Losing a lane hard and finally managing to complete one item (which powerspikes her to Andromeda Galaxy and back), and summarily going on to 1v1 and in many cases 1v2 and solo carry the entire team to victory doesn't constitute a struggling Champion.

The only way to win against Irelia is to just hope the person playing her is bad or your teammates are just better, which is often the case, but they still get plenty of mileage out of her.

The biggest thing is not what she's capable of when she's ahead, but what she's capable of from behind. And basically she's always performing and operating as a fed toplaner even when she gets shut down.