Talk:Irelia/@comment-123869-20110117163050/@comment-139.130.57.34-20110125015501

Yeah from a fun point of view maybe, as was sunfire eve back when sunfires stacked. AD benefits bladesurge directly as bladesurge's damage increases with your attack damage. Bladesurge isn't enhanced by lichbane, the following autoattack is. So basically I you had 200 attack damage (i.e. you have a 1 bloodthirster or something), blade surge at rank 5 does 160+200 = 360 damage. Include a followup autoattack and thats 360 + 200 = 560 damage. If you have 100 AP (1 lich bane and a book), the same combo would do 160+100 (bladesurge) + 100+100 (autoattack + lich bane proc) = 460. So point for point attack damage is better for bladesurge as well. That said, I do acknowledge that AP is somewhat cheaper to stack because of items like deathcap and mejai.

I have tried an AP + lich bane build but I really didn't like it. I play quite a few casters and honestly I didn't really like her after laning. Yeah laning was a little easier with added burst but in team fights where you're have to stay somewhat committed to the fight even with your abilities on cd, I really didn't like how my unenhanced autos.

I also disagree about your assessment of the prevelance of MR. Many "squishies" understand that your damage output is limited by how long you can stay alive to actually deal out the damage so they have mercury and often a banshee as well.