Talk:Irelia/@comment-5027304-20120417062126/@comment-4917717-20120421203745

The only place you might want to build ad is in her runes, as it will pad her weak early game and she doesn't care a whole lot about scaling. Buying AD items is just wrong. Your scaling ability is your ult. Kinda obv.

Her kit synergizes with a tanky assassin build. CC red, good base damage, healing, a gap closer and a little cc of her own. Compare that to 2 AD abilities that don't scale with the AD suite's crit or attack speed. By building AD you are not-only making yourself too squishy and vulnerable to cc/ignite/exhaust/focus in teamfights, you're also limiting the items you have to choose from, as items with crit or attack speed won't scale well with your kit(especially since you're giving up resistances on the base healing you do with your kit).