Talk:Irelia/@comment-98.92.165.161-20110103070744

i find that building ap is sorta useless- while her e is quite definitely one of her aspects with q, it's not useful enough by itself. her w makes her need a bit of attack speed for viability- there's no use in have 26 hp healed per hit if you hit at 1.00. there needs some bit of attack speed. And you need attack damage- again, w is useless if you hit for like 80 end game- 80 + 75, 155 dam per hit is nothing compared to most any char, even twitch.

She needs hybridism in various aspects, but she still needs to specialize in something.

She needs attack speed. For that, I build starks and Phantom dancer. starks effectively boosts the w heal into something usable, with healing AND damage. Phantom dancer gives you the needed speed, a very useful crit with the starks, and the movement for a fair bit of survivability, ie running away

Hextech gunblade helps you everywhere. survivability, while giving you quite the boost in damage and a very good bit to the e. Offense and survive.

However, you're still very, very much squishy. Not much can really help besides somethign with armor, so i usually go for ramuin;s odin or whatever the shield is called. Good armor, good health, cooldown (always a plus for her skills, they;re not that long, usually able to hit two or three skills in teamfights), and definitely survivability

her ulti sorta sucks. yea, but i usually go for berserker's greaves at first- i go with boots, 3 potions. Survive till level 6, then unlease skill to refill lifebar. Last enough, get greaves, life steal, and initally build into starks if possible. later PD and Hex start getting built slowly, while get a armor to boost her def early game. later build into everything, and by the time you've got all 5 items, it's gg. If you do last and need a good item fo rth last slot, get life steal, and later sell that for bf sword, and the infinity edge or bloodthirster, your choice, although i'd doubt you'd need it

build mana regen- she's useless without it. she can't last at the turrets till level 6 without mana regen. Exhaust and flash are nice to have, both good for escapes and chases, attackspeed, she need the initial attack ability with her w, as you have no scepter at the beginning (the scepter has no good build early game, so that's why you go for boots, allowing her survivability. life steal at 12% can't do much when you're hitting for 60). then go a bit of hybridism for the rest, crit chance, etc.

or if you want build infin edge, black cleaver, bloodthirster, hextech gunblade, and yuumou's ghostblade. your choice.