Talk:Irelia/@comment-27722295-20170103082940/@comment-26808509-20170219230327

Matrixdante If you list everything a Champion has in his kit, almost everyone sounds overloaded. For example, Soraka has a massive move speed boost, an AoE slow, a heal over time, a low cd burst heal, an AoE silence/root and a global heal. Yet you notice her doing just one thing, because everything in her kit but her W is pretty damn weak.

I wouldn't say Irelia is overloaded. Overloaded kit's usually are pretty complex with spells you have to think about more than once before using them and usually you have to make a trade off. In Irelia's case this thinking is limited to her E and MAYBE to her Q if you want to chain them. That's basicly it. Her Q is a targeted gapcloser/AA reset, her W simply empowers her AA's and her ult is a skillshot that heals you if you hit people with it. There isn't much to mechanicly learn about her, you W-Q onto an enemy, slow/stun him or someone ner him and then beat him to death, maybe with use of her ult for the Sheen procs. Naturally the skill lies in knowing the right targets and the right time to go in, but to my mind that count for every meele who seeks to kill someone.

That's why I think, yes, she is pretty boring to play. Of course it's a question of taste. Some people like to play complex champions with million ways to get stuff done, like Katarina or Yasuo and others like simple champions like Annie or Irelia and that's fine. Even I have fun playinger her one or two rounds and dominating the enemies backline. Problem is, that I'm not really challenged by her kit. There is not much room for improvement, because her kit simply doesn't offer that much depth. The escapes with Q is everything she does that I would lable an outplay. I like champions that offer an "easy to play, hard to master" kind of state, where you can have success with a champion, even if you're not that good with him, but you are able to see the difference between you and a really good player. Irelia doesn't offer that. That's why I'm getting tired of her really quickly.