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Reverting Irelia's nerf

Neon Nightsky·1/25/2019, 12:49:48 PM·2 votes·785 views

There are so many ways a champion can get nerfed, but after finding out the changes to Irelia Irelia , it isn't what I would expect of a "nerf" Removing her disable, making her W specify Physical Damage (This is a PBE change) and also removing her extra damage to shields at full stack is butchering her kit that is entirely unique to Irelia. These changes might get rolled back, which I hope for. Instead of removing a lot of features from Irelia, they could easily balance out her numbers, here are the simple changes that could have been made.

  1. Reducing damage/true damage at full stacks.
  2. Reducing duration of disarm.
  3. Reducing percentage on damage reduced with W.
  4. Increased movement speed by 5.

Irelia's kit and play style stands out the most when you compare her to all the other top laners, sure she has her broken moments, but that's every champion. Other players would not want to see the kind of nerf Riot is rolling out for Irelia. Sure there are many other champions to play on League, especially when there are new ones coming out, but you don't always get the same feeling as a champion you enjoy playing. It is entirely possible to nerf a champion without removing what's already there.

What do you guys think about Irelia's nerf?

2 Comments

The Ecdysiast1/25/2019, 1:05:46 PM1 votes

Really the only thing they needed to do is remove the damage reduction from her W entirely and just buff the damage. For an immobile fighter with no hard cc to have a %damage reduction ability is arguably fine (like Garen) but for a hyper-mobile fighter with a stun and two slows, it isn't reasonable.

xDogMeatx1/25/2019, 1:35:29 PM1 votes

lower w damage reduction not gut it would be my go to (lower it to 25% because its a block move but increase ap ratio so its easier to get that 100% if you dedicate yourself to it if you like skillshot irelia gameplay) keep shield piercing its unique to her. keep disarm its also unique to her taking something like that away is lying about her identity. reducing damage on passive plus lowering attack speed would be best at 5 stacks. as much as i hate irelia due to her broken nature i felt she was overkilled with a hail of bullets then nuked to death for good measure finally thrown into a black hole to clean up. it felt unjustified they would kill her stats like that.