Talk:Irelia/@comment-4921223-20141009210632/@comment-15244341-20141104193952

Except it's false Irlia has one gapcloser. Irelia jumps to a nearby creep and she equilibrium strikes for a stun. Then she does two autos for a niche chunk of your life thanks to W. Then she can either jump back to any other well placed creep or she can keep going on you with an extra jump.

I'm not saying this happens 100% of the time, especially if you picked a ranged champion which leaves you more breathing room when it comes to positioning. But as a melee champion, Irelia pretty much has two dashes on you when you go to CS.

To top that off she can, unlike Jax, work perfectly fine all game with a single Triforce. Jax does need a Blade or some other offensive item to be the great duelist he is. So invest in one damage item and then proceed to build tanky and never fall off in damage. Not even Darius gets that much damage from a single item.

So yeah, she is strong, and it's mostly beacuse of equilibrium strike+CDR being absolutely nuts. A 2 second stun on a 5-6 second cooldown is really really strong when coupled with Irelia's autoattack damage. She also has bad matchups she wins if she gets a kill. The Riven and Jayce matchups are pretty much in favor to whoever kills the other side first. Any lead for Irelia, especially if it lets her get any TF parts early, means your lane is probably lost.

That said, if she gets behind, she gets screwed pretty hard. So there is that.