EPT[Champion] Irelia - Page 5
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Craton
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Alaric
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Southlight
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little fancy
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It's not about being the main tank, but I love Qing into the opponent's rat pack at the very beginning of a fight and forcing them to decide between "wasting" their CC on me or letting me slowly dish out decent sustained damage (decent because my only damage items are Trinity Force and Wit's End mostly) that will cost them the fight in the end. However, this strategy becomes less effective the more tankier the enemy team is. | ||
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Mogwai
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Southlight
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As for why it works, it's mostly because Irelia as a kit lends itself to my preferred playstyle, I think. When it comes down to it (and some of the people that've seen my hero complaining in skype can attest) the only things I really ask for in a hero is the ability to punish positioning, force them to make decisions about killing me (causes coordination errors), and the ability to punish them for leaving me alive. Irelia has a very good dash + semi-CC that makes it so I can usually catch someone and either rake them down for a lot of HP very quickly before just turning around and backing off or I force a fight because they think they can kill me - even if they can, ideally I'd have necessitated so much firepower that my team can come in and clean house. In the end it doesn't really matter to me "what's the best way of optimizing her kit," she just has a fantastic kit for "doing what I need" while also having the added bonus of basically never losing a lane except against a very select few heroes. Edit: Like, I'd developed the habit of not actually trusting other people to start the fight, and I also don't really expect others to be in position when I do start one, so I've generally always favored forcing an engagement to happen and then being able to eat one or two full salvos before my team is able to engage. It leads to a lot of silly deaths but that's just how I play :| | ||
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Mogwai
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Southlight
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Edit: For whatever it's worth I started just rushing Atma's Impaler and THEN buying the pieces of Warmog, as Atma provides a decent bit of damage even without any extra HP. | ||
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zulu_nation8
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Craton
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STS17
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Slayer91
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Flicky
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On September 29 2011 21:09 Slayer91 wrote: One's tank, the other is mobility/burst. I don't understand the direct comparison and absolute judgements. Well I think the issue Mogwai has (and I have too) is that she doesn't make a great tank. | ||
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Slayer91
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clickrush
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broz0rs
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 Don't know if you guys have seen the Chaox marathon vids, but I've seen about half of them and his Irelia video is my favorite. He basically 1v5 the opposing team, who fed off his bad teammates. Really fun game to watch. http://www.solomid.net/videoplayer.php?v=506 | ||
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Mogwai
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Alaric
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Then we realized that his damage output was limited and that w/o the attention he drew by diving us and allowing his carries to focus ours he didn't threaten us at all, while I was able to 1v1 all of them (even him, he'd just be damn long) with my triforce/ghostblade build, even to 1v2 some pairs. So I just asked Malz to suppress Irelia and Cait to not give a fuck and auto-attack their carries without worrying. Just diving Tristana and Kayle in the middle of their team was enough to make them shift their focus w/o their "tank" able to distract us, and we won all of those teamfights 5 to 0 or 1 everytime. It was the most extreme example, but every game I had playing Irelia with one on the enemy team as well that went atmogs I just felt I was more threatening than him, and generally doing a better job as an assassin (passive + FoN + more movespeed made my Q some kind of a free taunt everytime I dived back in). Granted, that's normals, and I'm not playing that great, so they may have been plain worse too. | ||
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