Talk:Irelia/@comment-70.240.50.54-20120317190852/@comment-2124153-20120318034139

What do you mean, "so"? They are completely different champions.

Fiora is a melee carry in the style of Master Yi and Tryndamere. Her job is to dash around and shred people with raw DPS. She has no CC, and is vulnerable to being locked down herself. Fiora is squishy, does mostly physical damage, and scales *hard* with items.

Irelia is an ASSASSIN. Her job is to bypass enemy defenses, and get right at the squishy carries and mages. You can't stop her with CC, you can't defend against her damage, and you can't get away (gap closer, stun/slow CC, skillshot ult). Sometimes Irelia is on a team without a tank, and builds Fratma's in order to initiate, in which case she is more of a tanky DPS, but in her core she is a Trinity Force burst assassin.

These two champions are almost nothing alike, because of how their kits encourage them to itemize/play. If you think that Irelia is a poor-man's Fiora, you don't understand EITHER champion.