Talk:Irelia/@comment-78.90.57.3-20120328231616/@comment-2124153-20120329134506

Just as I suspected, you don't understand magic resistance.

The average bruiser that you're facing in the lane has about 60 MR by the time that you get E to level five, which means 37.5% damage reduction. In other words, the 280 base damage on E drops to 175. If they have merc's, that damage drops to 151 and your epic stun is now only 1.3 seconds long.

Note that now your "nuke" is only doing as much damage as two autoattacks with Hiten's on-hit. Except we're getting more than two attacks in, because of Bladesurge and the stun/slow on level one E, so the Irelia with W maxed first is pushing out more damage. And this doesn't even get into the fact that she's sustaining herself the whole time with the passive effect.

There's a reason that all serious Irelia players max W first.