Talk:Spellbreaker/@comment-5514182-20130831152659/@comment-8468980-20130903055431

"It was FAR TOO good on irelia and master yi I heard"

XD Nah!

Champs who like hardcore damage stats typically don't have the tanky stats to make tenacity worthwhile. Master Yi gets tagged with two second stun, but it's reduced to 1.4 seconds. Regardless, he still gets chunked for 80% of his health easily (or dies out right) kicking him out of a fight, forcing him to rely on his team to make safer plays for him.

Tenacity simply doesn't make sense for these champs. Items that cleanse CC immediately like Mercurial or prevent it from effecting them in the first place like Banshee's Veil are far, far more beneficial.

Certain squishy melee champs can get away with building tenacity because nuances in their kit make them psuedo tanky like Riven's shield that scales with damage or Jax's ult that grants him defense scaling with his damage stats.

As for Irelia? It's possible, but the whole point of of putting tenacity on an item is to free up boots for something else, for junglers it's great on SotGolem so they can pick up ganking boots... but as a solo top Irelia; what other boots are you getting? Tabi's a good choice, but if you need to protect against a phys damage lane opponent in the first place, then why are you picking up an item that's got so much anti magic damage specs?