Talk:Irelia/@comment-41.132.77.179-20120316012105/@comment-4926072-20120316145000

In my opinion, she's in the middle of the pack for tops (which are in general pretty decent). I don't think Riot has a real reason to nerf her, right now -- their reasons for nerfing her before were too many types of damage (now her damage comes from AAs and primarily physical spells in Q and R), that is, being difficult to itemize against, and assuming the role of assassin and tanky DPS simultaneously (reduction to HP and nerf to health restore on ult remedied this).

She still does quite a lot - that is, she sustains well and has decent scaling for a tanky DPS - but there are too many champions with problematic designs/in bad places relative to Irelia that they should focus on first before tweaking her (which is the most they would do).