Talk:Irelia/@comment-4926072-20120314173145/@comment-2124153-20120316153541

Guinsoo's has a place if your name is Ezreal, and you have boss ratios on all of your moves plus an easy way to maintain stacks.

The fact that Rageblade can nearly double the damage on Irelia's ult, should set off red flags in your mind. The conclusion to draw here isn't that RB is amazing, but that the base damage on Transcendent Blades is garbage. Which it is. Doubling the amount of poo, gives you two handfuls of poo.

Wriggle's is OK on Irelia, but it is not a cure-all and it's not always appropriate. Consider that lifesteal is only as good as your modified AD, and Irelia neither focuses on AD nor does she itemize for Armor penetration.

Suppose that Irelia with 9/21/0 masteries and flat AD marks/quints at level 9, faces Riven. Irelia has Wriggle's, and no other AD items, resulting in roughly 124 AD and 10% ArPen. This hits Riven's ~62 Armor and does about 80 damage, restoring 12 through the Lantern's lifesteal. This is nice, and the Lantern is cost-effective generally, but we are getting 26 health from Hiten Style and could get the Armor from somewhere else, like a Chain Vest (Atma's) or Cloth (Aegis, Ninja Tabi).

I only like Wriggle's when Hiten's sustain is insufficient by itself, and that is a seriously rare event. When you don't need the extra sustain, you are just slowing your build down. I'll buy wards, and get Armor elsewhere. I don't need the minion damage proc, and I don't need the AD, but I do need Wit's End and I do need a Phage ASAP.