Talk:Irelia/@comment-26251295-20150624162103/@comment-24496127-20150625083709

Another possibility is making her w give armor pen when active. Perhaps something like Yasuo where it cuts through bonus armor, but also have a base amount it takes away so she's stronger when using it no matter what.

If the bonus armor cut was a debuff rather than a personal buff, and stacked like black cleaver or something, it could incentivise a more peel based Irelia. while still rewarding attack speed building. Along with some nerfs to damage, maybe she would actually have to go damage to burst the carry.

Truthfully these are mostly scattered thoughts I'm having at like 4am, but I'm trying to think of something that could make her less of an assassin-tank, because those two roles overlap in a really annoying way when it comes to Irelia.