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Irelia VGU

Placentas·12/12/2017, 2:59:51 AM·3 votes·786 views

I'm not an Irelia player by any means. In my years of playing League I have only played her maximum 4-5 times and that's a generous guess. Her kit doesn't really interest me currently and my old computer lagged too much for me to really play her anyway.

But I have always liked her concept of a telekinetic swordsman/flying swords idea. It is interesting because I find the animations on her jokes/taunts to be really interesting and beautiful. The swords flying around her and her surfing on her sword and her dance. It just doesn't really translate over to her current kit very well.

Knowing she is slated for a VGU after Swain my own personal input on her future VGU is to see more things in her kit that are stylized similar to when her swords are flying and dancing around her like in her current taunt/dance animations. It's visually really cool and would tie her into her actual concept more. I feel like her only current ability that says "flying swords" is her ult and even then, not really. It just looks like they're being thrown, I feel like Talons ult even says flying swords more than Irelias.

As for the abilities on her kit, I don't have any ideas or opinions tbh. As I already stated I don't play her so I don't have any input to give on what her abilities should actually do but just more so how they should look.

But I would also be curious as to what Irelia players think and wish to see for Irelias VGU. I feel like there's a lot of really cool potential with this champion and I am honestly pretty excited to see her VGU.

Inb4 "RIOT DESTROYS LORE" ETC ETC - cool but let's keep the topic away from that.

13 Comments

Epicurus12/12/2017, 8:36:14 AM3 votes

The only thing I find interesting about Irelia's current incarnation is her death animation. It's visually impressive, but it also has some very interesting lore implications. To me, it looks like Irelia's blades turn on her as soon as she loses control, implying that part of Irelia subconsciously wishes she hadn't come back from the dead. I dearly hope Riot doesn't throw away this hook with the update.

Ahris12/12/2017, 4:22:44 AM1 votes

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ChompyWulf12/12/2017, 8:35:41 PM1 votes

I think her kit is just badly dated. The tenacity passive is more fitting for a juggernaut or bruiser, while the rest of her kit is plain duelist. Her Q is in a pretty good place for an engage and farm tool. W is WAY too crazy to balance. The True Damage requires it be nerfed enough to not be OP, but right now the bonus damage and sustain is just crap. E is just a design mess. The stun/slow mechanic is just bad. She isn't like Olaf who can actually benefit from lower HP and it ends up just being a crappy way to run from a bad duel. R is horribly weak for an ultimate. It really only serves to throw out a tiny bit of damage to champs that are about to escape. Or a last ditch lifesteal effort.

Take the True Damage away and give her W higher scaling on AD. Make her current Ult her E. Have a time stacking mechinc similar to Corki Ult up to 3 charges, 3 second window to use more charges after the first, and the cooldown scales higher for more charges used. Change her passive. Just something more fitting a duelist and split pusher than a vanguard. (Unless they really want to drastically alter her scaling and kit to fit her passive) Ult empowers her next four auto attacks with greater range, and bonus damage. In addition, the second attack will slow the target, and the fourth will stun. (First and third do bonus damage only)

My humble ideas to make a better duelist with a similar but better overall kit.