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Irelia new kit leaked

Linna Excel··4 votes·3,041 views

Reddit thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FThcVP4s1kM

My thoughts:

  • passive - not comment since they haven't touched it yet.
  • Q - I'm glad this is staying
  • W - I don't like the self-damage on the toggle. Unless toggling back and forth procs sheen, I'm not sure I like this. Riot is basically forcing her to rush a life steal item instead of TF. Are irelia players okay if TF isn't their rush item anymore? I also don't thematically like it because it sounds like something that should be on Aatrox. Would someone please remind Reav3 that Irelia and Aatrox are not the same champ. Is the person working on Irelia a support main or something and has no idea who the top lane champs are? It's little stuff like this why some people hate reworks. Don't get me wrong, I was expecting this to be a toggle ability, but I was thinking she'd be trading between health and on hit true damage, which would be closer to the current design.
  • E - okay, the stun everyone hates is gone, but I don't like them keeping the health check on the skill. It was really the health check that caused more frustration than the stun because you didn't know exactly when or if the stun was coming. Frankly I'd make the heal always happen but scale off of Irelia's missing health and scale the slow amount and damage done on the target's current health. No need to get fancy IMO and that skill would better represent the balance thematic of Ionian champs.
  • R - In my head, I was imagining something similar to this on her kit, but not exactly like this. Unfortunately riot might get rid of this.

Here's my big suggestion for irelia's rework: make her like Jayce, Nidalee, or Elise. Give her a melee form that operates similarly to her normal kit and a ranged form that has a weakened version of her old ult on her Q, the blade twirl on her W, and something else on her E. I think this would be the best way to make her a psychic blade wielder without compromising her gameplay identity.

I think GBay99, the poster child of irelia players, did make a good point. Riot didn't understand Irelia at all for this rework.

19 Comments

warpenguin5554 votes

Thats probably fake

Linna Excel1 votes

We can't prove it's fake though.

Timethief494 votes

And cant proof that its real and thats the first thing to proof. If i say i was on the moon i have to proof it and not you having to proof that i wasnt.

Linna Excel1 votes

The point is, it's possibly true. You can either hide your head in the sand or take it as a grain of truth until you know more.

Timethief492 votes

No? You dont take something for a gain of proof until further. You look at it and ignore it until proof is given. If i told you eating shit is healthy would you take it for a grain of truth before proof=

Linna Excel1 votes

If you've paid attention to reddit leaks, you would know that some of them in the past have been true.

Since there's a non-zero percent of being true, it's good to pass the info on to others so they can make up their own minds.

Timethief492 votes

I know some have been true. Mainly the big skinleak predicting many skins and rakan/xayah. I still stand my point.

Sukishoo2 votes

This video is such a joke.

Linna Excel1 votes

I saw the video first and posted it because it has a screen cap of the thread, then searched for the reddit link which I added in.

Sukishoo3 votes

Everything that's said in it cannot be proved though, so it's just a living joke.

Plus the guy says the rework is 3 months away, or something, and that's just laughable since it was just announced. It's at least 4-5 away.

Linna Excel1 votes

These are good concerns. It's hard to say if it's true or not. There have been true reddit leaks in the past, so it's best to keep everyone up to date in case it is true. As I said above, if riot says nothing then it's more likely to be true.

Plus the guy says the rework is 3 months away, or something, and that's just laughable since it was just announced. It's at least 4-5 away.

We don't know how long riot has been working on this. There may have been an approved design that was slowly cooking on the backburner for awhile.

It's also possible that visually she's staying very much the same and there isn't that much they need to do for her models so they slotted her understanding this would be a faster big rework. She's never been a super heavy champ on particle effects, so that probably saves riot a little time.

Bunnymap2 votes

How do you know that this is even real? Plus, considering that this is still fairly early on, even if this is real, it’s likely to be changed.

Linna Excel2 votes

There have been a number of reddit leaks that turned out to be true. The one about how urgot and evelynn were getting reworked was a good example.

If a rioter doesn't outright call it a lie, which happens on the fake ones, I think it's safe to say this is the direction they are working in.

Tausif20022 votes

Ok but the leaks about their reworks were released in the much later phases of their reworks, Irelia's VGU kit is likely still in the early development stages. You can't just expect anyone with a reddit account with "leaks" to be a game tester.

Sujiren2 votes

The new ulti looks quite interesting from the description. I hope the new Irelia gets a really cool ultimate, the current one feels really boring and underwhelming. Imagine how badass it would be if during the ultimate Irelia would telekinetically wield all of her blades at once, kind of like Noctis in armiger mode from final fantasy XV, that shit would be legit badass.

Linna Excel1 votes

The current ult isn't very big, but it does a lot. It gives her burst, which is why she rushes TF. It gives her sustain. It gives her wave clear and a little AoE damage.

Still, I'm actually a little hopeful for the new ult.

Ravenhale2 votes

Why would anyone toggle to a bleed when they could just leave it as healing indefinitely? This would push Irelia towards a BotRK start over TriForce (which has been done before when TriForce numbers were weak).

I think this proposed rework is boring and doesn't really improve the Telekinetic Blade Fantasy. I mean... does a Telekinetic Blade wielder really require to be an Auto Attack based champion? I thought that was always at the core of why so many felt there was a thematic disconnect with Irelia. She basically just walks up and smacks you with a blade that hovers near her hand.

I actually expect Irelia to become more of an AD Caster like Riven. Maybe just upgrade her from Diver to Skirmisher.

Linna Excel1 votes

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Why would anyone toggle to a bleed when they could just leave it as healing indefinitely? This would push Irelia towards a BotRK start over TriForce (which has been done before when TriForce numbers were weak).

Ask the people who designed and play Aatrox that. They'd have better insight.

However the biggest problem with this idea is that an executioner's calling or a bramblevest basically screws over irelia's kit. Riot kind of hates sustain and if these changes go live, she's basically useless after the enemy backs once.

I think this proposed rework is boring and doesn't really improve the Telekinetic Blade Fantasy. I mean... does a Telekinetic Blade wielder really require to be an Auto Attack based champion? I thought that was always at the core of why so many felt there was a thematic disconnect with Irelia. She basically just walks up and smacks you with a blade that hovers near her hand.

Don't tell anyone downvoting me this but I agree with you and hope it's wrong. This doesn't do that much for the psychic blades fantasy, it really doesn't do anything for irelia mains, it doesn't feel like an ilonian champ, etc.

As for the blades, it could be an auto attack based champion. She's been a mixture of sustained and burst damage in the past so it'd make sense if riot kept

I actually expect Irelia to become more of an AD Caster like Riven. Maybe just upgrade her from Diver to Skirmisher.

No idea what riot is going to do with her. Right now, she's a bit of a jack-of-all-trades. She can split push, assassinate, dive, and off-tank but she's not really good at any of those roles. Right now that's good because it gives her a weakness in the form of she's not great at anything but it also gives her player flexibility to decide how to play the game out.

I expect riot to change this because they hate non-specialized champs, but your guess is as good as mine as to what it'd be like in the end.

PowerSlave9931 votes

Dude this is fake! How people can't see that this is a retarded video and fake... One guy makes ''leaked'' irelia reworks on 10000 reddits, subreddits and everybody believe him. Just shut up with this crap.

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