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[Champion] Irelia

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oberon
Profile Joined May 2009
United States1320 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-12 14:46:15
November 12 2010 14:30 GMT
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Abilities:

Bladesurge: Irelia dashes forward to strike her target. If it kills the target, Bladesurge's cooldown refreshes and half the mana cost is refunded.

Hiten Style: Irelia is skilled in the art of Hiten, passively giving her physical attacks health restoration. Activating Hiten Style adds true damage to her physical attacks for a short duration.

Equilibrium Strike: Irelia's attack balances the scales, dealing damage and slowing the target. However, if the target has a higher Health % than Irelia, then the blow stuns the target instead.

Transcendent Blades (Ultimate): Irelia summons four spirit blades which she can fling at her enemies. These blades deal magic damage to enemies that they pass through, siphoning life from them and healing Irelia.

Ionian Fervor (Passive): Each nearby enemy champion (to a maximum of three) reduces the effectiveness of Crowd Control on Irelia.


Sounds like the potential for a solid tank to me. Decent CC becomes great CC if you attack her, she has an initiating move, she attacks for true damage (no need for pesky items), she can heal herself if she does get focused, and she's CC-resistant. Reminds me of Olaf, which means everyone's going to start by saying "no, you idiot, she's melee DPS!"

Thank you:
On November 12 2010 23:40 Fluent wrote:
But I was thinking she looked more like a AP melee carry, maybe a little tanky?

Lunek
Profile Joined October 2010
Poland164 Posts
November 12 2010 14:35 GMT
#2
Olaf's wife. Wonder how effective she will be in jungle.
Phrost
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States4008 Posts
November 12 2010 14:40 GMT
#3
she is visually impressive but in practice not stellar.
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Fluent
Profile Joined June 2010
United States32 Posts
November 12 2010 14:40 GMT
#4
She's probably a pretty good jungler, with AS runes, considering her W is passive lifesteal. But I was thinking she looked more like a AP melee carry, maybe a little tanky?
oberon
Profile Joined May 2009
United States1320 Posts
November 12 2010 14:44 GMT
#5
On November 12 2010 23:40 Phrost wrote:
she is visually impressive but in practice not stellar.


Has test realm play been more successful as DPS or tank?
TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-12 14:55:55
November 12 2010 14:52 GMT
#6
On November 12 2010 23:30 oberon wrote:
Reminds me of Olaf, which means everyone's going to start by saying "no, you idiot, she's melee DPS!"

Er...off topic, but isn't he melee DPS? I'm aware he builds tanky, but I was of the impression that role-wise in team-fights he wasn't a tank. More of "ruin the enemy carry's day" rather than "keep the enemies off your squishies".
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Phrost
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States4008 Posts
November 12 2010 15:18 GMT
#7
She plays like a more agressive version of akali with less defenses
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Brees
Profile Joined January 2010
Marshall Islands3404 Posts
November 12 2010 15:20 GMT
#8
On November 13 2010 00:18 Phrost wrote:
She plays like a more agressive version of akali with less defenses


So was I right in thinking as soon as i saw her skillset that we are just getting another assassin masked as a melee DPS? Wonder when they are going to make a real melee DPS
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Phrost
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States4008 Posts
November 12 2010 15:22 GMT
#9
On November 13 2010 00:20 Brees wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 13 2010 00:18 Phrost wrote:
She plays like a more agressive version of akali with less defenses


So was I right in thinking as soon as i saw her skillset that we are just getting another assassin masked as a melee DPS? Wonder when they are going to make a real melee DPS


She's a lot harder to stop in teamfights than akali due to a number of factors.

But in the end she just seems very assassiny.
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Southlight
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States11766 Posts
November 12 2010 15:27 GMT
#10
On November 13 2010 00:20 Brees wrote:
make a real melee DPS


The day a hero comes out that can tank and dish out damage better than say, Nasus is the day LoL is pretty fucked balance-wise. The last hero that could do this to an extent was Xin Zhao and it took nary a day for Noah's Ark to be required lest humanity be drowned in nerd tears.
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Navi
Profile Joined November 2009
5286 Posts
November 12 2010 15:50 GMT
#11
So her ult is a skillshot correct?
That sounds fun :3
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STS17
Profile Joined April 2010
United States1817 Posts
November 12 2010 16:39 GMT
#12
Anyone else read the name of her W and immediately think of Rurouni Kenshin?

Reading her skillset she seems a lot more like Akali then a tank, though she can probably be built beefy and still be fine. IMO Her passive is really good.
Platinum Level Terran - Take my advice from that perspective
Ecael
Profile Joined February 2008
United States6703 Posts
November 12 2010 16:41 GMT
#13
On November 13 2010 01:39 STS17 wrote:
Anyone else read the name of her W and immediately think of Rurouni Kenshin?

Reading her skillset she seems a lot more like Akali then a tank, though she can probably be built beefy and still be fine. IMO Her passive is really good.

Uta and I were chatting, I bought it up, both of us immediately went like Hiten Mitsurugiryuu.

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Unentschieden
Profile Joined August 2007
Germany1471 Posts
November 12 2010 16:43 GMT
#14
On November 13 2010 00:18 Phrost wrote:
She plays like a more agressive version of akali with less defenses


How is that even possible? Akali only has her smokebomb for defense and that is unreliable. Doesn´t she have passive CC reduction (depending on the opposition VERY powerful), passive lifesteal on 2 skills and a mobility skill?
STS17
Profile Joined April 2010
United States1817 Posts
November 12 2010 16:45 GMT
#15
So Kenshin deals true damage and siphons the life of his opponents to keep him alive...no wonder he's so friggin badass with a sword.
Platinum Level Terran - Take my advice from that perspective
Phrost
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States4008 Posts
November 12 2010 17:48 GMT
#16
Okay so I'm going to tell you more than I should. Q Has a 1.0 attack damage ratio and is hilarious when you have an IE and you can port around 1 shotting caster minions
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STS17
Profile Joined April 2010
United States1817 Posts
November 12 2010 17:53 GMT
#17
On November 13 2010 02:48 Phrost wrote:
Okay so I'm going to tell you more than I should. Q Has a 1.0 attack damage ratio and is hilarious when you have an IE and you can port around 1 shotting caster minions


Would you say she is worth buying
Platinum Level Terran - Take my advice from that perspective
Phrost
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States4008 Posts
November 12 2010 18:32 GMT
#18
On November 13 2010 02:53 STS17 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 13 2010 02:48 Phrost wrote:
Okay so I'm going to tell you more than I should. Q Has a 1.0 attack damage ratio and is hilarious when you have an IE and you can port around 1 shotting caster minions


Would you say she is worth buying


If nothing changes, probably not version 1.0
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Unentschieden
Profile Joined August 2007
Germany1471 Posts
November 12 2010 19:32 GMT
#19
Numbers change constantly, Miss Fortune was also subpar on the Testrealm but...

How does she feel compared to say, Olaf or Mundo?
Phrost
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States4008 Posts
November 12 2010 19:55 GMT
#20
She's too buggy imho to give a good description and I'm not a fan of the akali (who she seems to play a lot like) so I don't know.
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