Better Nerf Irelia... Rito Pls
I'm fine with Irelia being nerfed, but Riot you aren't nerfing Irelia properly
Firstly, removing the anti shielding because "Irelia has too much" is poor reasoning. Having an overloaded kit is having mobility, damage, tankiness, shields, healing, all sorts of stuff in few abilities. There's nothing wrong with a champion having smaller things like shield breaking on a passive is just NICE to play as, but it's really not something that was ever that great, but without it it's just annoying.
Riot, you completely dropped the ball on the q damage to minions thing. Do you know why people were complaining about Irelia? Because she had too much burst and not enough counterplay. People top lane were pretty well fine with the 1v1 consistent damage fights... so why did you nerf Irelia's q onto minions. It's extremely awkward to lose so much damage on minions, meaning you can't do that consistent damage... making Irelia more of a mid laner... nobody wants that Riot.
The ult changes aren't good for playing against Irelia. Why buff the damage of it? That's just making burst more likely which is not what anybody wants. You're making Irelia's team fighting better by making it a slow instead of a disarm, because if someone wants to peel their ad that runes out of the ultimate, they're slowed and can't do as much. It was also nice to play as Irelia and have that unique disarm effect. It made her feel much better in some team fights.
Riot, you made Irelia much worse to play as, and worse to play against save for the fact that Irelia's laning is gutted... which it didn't at all need to be.
Riot here's what you need to do:
Undo the changes you did and start from here:
Buff Irelia's passive, and nerf her Q damage to champions a bit, and nerf its damage on champions with a certain amount of max health like that of an adc's scaling with the game. Make Irelia's w be better when there are fewer champions around her.
This way Irelia can be a duelist and have some solid 1v1ing, and she'll be less bursty and have more counterplay in team fights, and will finally be a top laner like she's meant to be.
Riot, if you try but end up unable to make Irelia balanced, to be honest it would be better for you just to revert Irelia's e to a point and click stun and buff her passive and make it more than 4 stacks and nerf her Q.
Please rito, don't let Irelia become a champ that sucks to play, sucks to play against, and you can't make skin money off of.
