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Seriously, what the fuck is with Irelia?

Niyumi··5 votes·2,314 views

I don't even need to explain it.

  • Free true damage for autoing people.

  • Free sustain for autoing people.

  • Entirely targeted kit.

  • Limitless mobility in minions, and in teamfights.

  • Stun for losing a trade.

  • Free tenacity.

  • Ult that heals her from <500 health to more than half.

  • Ability to build full tank plus a triforce and instantly kill a Skarner with 180 armor and over 4.5k health.

Can anyone explain to me how the fuck that's balanced, in any way? Riot, you love to ignore my threads, but I dare you to explain how Irelia is, in any way, "fair and balanced."

12 Comments

Bobloser35552 votes

Who said she is balanced? No one.

Zelnick2 votes

I think she'd be fine if she only got to dash once, she's just Fiora on steroids tbh, a lot more effective for assassinating a target in a big team fight, literally all people do with irelia is autowin by going after the adc, they automatically lose if they don't have janna or alistar or lissandra or anivia on your team.

RIP Resonance1 votes

Don't let her get ahead.

Niyumi3 votes

She's ahead as soon as she builds a triforce. Not sure how you can stop that, since gold generation is passive.

Support Bοt1 votes

She is farmer. She needs trinity that is designed for her. Than it happens. She may be even 0/30 till she has trinity + 2 tank items. Squishy carrys dies in few seconds, tanks try to run away, but she is always faster.

This is the same story like master Yi. Makes a game by itself.

LuluInWonderland1 votes

Any list that only mentions her strengths is useless. Also, I see you just got wrecked in a match by a very fed Irelia. Any fed champ is "OP".

Yes, she has a strong laning phase, and is a duelist so don't expect to 1v1 her with anything other than a duelist. She doesn't have a "hard" counter. She fits in too well to too many team comps (i.e. when is it ever a bad idea to pick her?). She's also strong mid game, especially if ahead. She falls off later but still serves a role well (changing from more of an assassin/fighter to pure fighter/off-tank.

She's also very vulnerable to CC early game. The tenacity helps her, but even soft CC like slows makes it fairly easy to kite her. Most people make the mistake of throwing their CC out immediately, then she just stuns or slows you and sticks to you. Also, if you position appropriately, she only has an in - once she goes in, she has to all-in or likely lose the trade...easily exposing her to ganks. Unless fed, since she's a duelist, she can't handle 2 champs coming at her (unlike Darius or something who is strong early and has AOE and a reset to deal with multiple targets).

Anyway, the biggest issue is that she's a duelist so the way you win is by not dueling her without a significant advantage. Don't play her game and she won't ruin yours.

MLDzXnRRR1 votes

She is single target assasin with only flashfarming farming ability - her R. Most of her dmg comes from sheen procs... Most of the old fighter champs counter her. See how Faker picks Olaf vs Irelia (SKT vs BKT) and kills her lvl 2.

JafarThePanda1 votes

Olaf Trundle

Swiftstrike41 votes

She is strong if played correctly.

Just pick Nasus Trundle Olaf Jax. Irelia is just a mid game hyper tank. She get's outscaled by other champs and drops off in the late game.

Lovelle1 votes

Just wait for the inevitable nerfs. Either to Irelia, Triforce, or both.

OxyPoro1 votes

She's fucking cancer that will delete any squishy during the duration of her stun. She wrecks tanks and she outscales most other fighters, her early isn't even that weak to justify her bullshit midgame/lategame. God forbid you fuck up and get ganked, lose the 1v1 or don't manage to heavily outfarm, just ff.

She needs to be dumpstered permanently like they did in the good old days before this bohooo must compensationbuff/shift power blablabla, just fucking nerf meta cancer already, we're fucking fed up having the same champs dominate the game indefinately. BAH!

Akali is SO HOT1 votes

Yes those are what her abilities do op

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