Talk:Irelia/@comment-94.109.117.41-20130201220834/@comment-94.109.121.246-20130203123924

I assure you, dude , that pure theorycrafting based on champion's kit solely has been completely blown up by a certain meta that favours even the champs it's not supposed to favour. The purest example of this are Attack speed and resists, which, as they used to rule during s2 on irelia, jax , etccc ... have been totaly outclassed (maybe temporarily) by attack damage , early arpen, and , most of all, health. And thinking health and AD buffs only favours those Dariuses, olafs, riven, etc ... is a common but huge misconception.

This does not mean, obviously , that AS and resist are no more "theorically" perfect on irelia: simply , the clunky build paths and the various nerfs ont those stats just cant face the straightforward , multi-uses items such as Black cleaver mostly.For instance, a " Celerity / Zephyr / Trinity / Spirit visage / Randuin/ Ga " build is still damn effective on her, but not to say it's much more difficult to achieve during laning against someone that just rushed Warmog ... However, nerfs on Warmog, Black cleaver, and nifty cost decrease on Trinity might eventually change my opinion, and i think it would be a damn good thing cause it would be a sign of the game being much more balanced ,once more !

Sorry for the wall of text, btw :)