Talk:Irelia/@comment-123869-20110117163050

My BF is the only person I've seen play AP Irelia outside of the person he fought that gave him the idea for it, and I never understood why. She does great burst damage that way, and scales very well.

Sheen --> boots of mobility --> giant's belt --> finish rylai's --> boots of lucidity --> deathcap --> lichbane --> more hats (or void staff, etc as you see fit). Or it may go lichbane and then the hat. I forget exactly which order he does.

Either way, you bladesurge in, which does piddly damage but allows for the AP number damage from lichbane since she attacks immediately after. Then you hit equilibrium strike. Then you use the ulti. If they have health left, ignite 'em and wait for the cooldown (shortened by the boots). Since bladesurge was given a boost in range recently, it's easy to follow a weakened champ and just repeat the combo. It's amazing to watch the healthbar melt.

Consider if she has her 4 core items - boots of lucidity, lich bane, rylai's, and deathcap. She has 410 AP. Blade surge does like 150 damage but triggers off 400 damage from lichbane. That's all physical. Then you follow up with Equilibrium, which does 710 magic damage. Then each of her swords nuke for 350 magic damage, and she throws 4 of them. That's 2100 magic damage and 550 physical damage in a very short amount of time - enough to take care of most casters and put a hurt on tougher folks. Remember that it's only 4 items and you can build another 2 to increase the nuke damage even further.

Before you come in with 'bah AD/hybrid is the only way' please give it a try. It's surprisingly successful and certainly a lot of fun for something different.