Talk:Irelia/@comment-7992038-20140318045752/@comment-4698489-20140327053925

I would say her identity is "tanky assassin." She has all the tools to stick to a single target (tenacity, refreshable gapcloser, stun), kill them (true damage steroid, ranged skillshot that can proc Sheen 4 times), and survive even if it's in the middle of a teamfight (tenacity that increases with more enemies, on-hit healing, aoe spellvamp). Because of her natural healing and the fact that she doesn't scale that well with damage compared to other carry-ish melees like Yi or Jax, she builds Triforce into tanky to have enough damage to kill the adc while being more or less unkillable herself. Unlike other assassins, she relies on tankiness instead of avoiding damage to survive, and unlike tanky bruisers, she is mobile and hard to pin down with CC.