Talk:Irelia/@comment-27424921-20160615211232/@comment-28465461-20160618130419

That's the magical thing about her being pretty tanky, Ninja tabi does reduce sheen procs, but in my opinion, rylais, liandries, gunblade combo completely makes morde tank the tank builds/tanks especially if you have a lot of magic penetration.

However she does heal through her passive, it's not life steal but it is a flat amount of health per strike. Trinity offers every stat she wants, as she become pretty tanky. If she builds pure tanky, then it is very easy to counter as you can just rip through tankiness as morde (it happened to me once as a tank and enemy morde took like almost 4k of my health with such items I even had him low and he healed for so much, he had WOA), you have to press your lead against her with certain items that everytime she comes into lane or even team fight, you just kill her again. Basically running gunblade first probably would have been a better choice so you have sustain (and more overall damage), you don't need to rush rylais as melee vs melee especially if you are up against irelia, gunblade also slows when you use the active. Or better yet in this case with this kind of build, I believe she was going for deadmans plate after trinity and merc treads, a simple rush of liandries torment have disgusting synergy with his ultimate as well as penetration magic resist. Both of these together will make morde heal off a lot of tanks.