Talk:Irelia/@comment-123869-20110117163050/@comment-139.130.57.34-20110120225151

I think the point of AS for an AP build is to still trigger the true damage more often.

My personal opinion is that she is NOT meant to go AP. e is the ONLY ability that has a good ratio and that has a 9 second CD. Aside from her ult, e is also the ONLY ability that actually benefits from ability power at all. You might say lich bane but that has a 3 second cooldown and doesn't do good damage until you're pretty fed with AP (only exception being akali because of how it syncs with her mark of the assassin, and even she at least has more than 1 non ult ability that scales off AP to convince her to get Lich Bane).

I think if you really want better burst early on, get a sheen but build it into tri force instead. If you want to go AP, pick another champion, preferably one with at least more than 1 non ult ability that scales off AP. The only time I've seen an AP Irelia was when she was free and all she did was kill steal.

Also, late game, people tend to have some decent MR and the Armor is usually 50-100. Meaning your combo is more like 1400 damage (and that means landing all your ult triggers) - for late game, that's rather pathetic. Now if we compare what 410 AP does for REAL AP champs (e.g ryze and fiddle can ace entire teams with that), I really wouldn't play Irelia AP.