Talk:Irelia/@comment-77.6.76.174-20120507053352/@comment-4957501-20120508031404

Yes, she should last hit like everyone else and the sustain is mostly just bonus. Her sustain's pretty bad inlane right now without items to buff it.

See, the thing is, with W's passive by itself your AA's will heal you for only 13hp per hit, and even that's only if it's at the max level. If you're going to tank the minions close to/within range of your tower, that's only going to give you enough regen to just barely break even with the minion damage (at best) or much more likely, actually lose some health overall while doing that, making it bad for undoing enemy harass. But, if you're within tower range, the enemy champion will think twice about harassing you as he'll risk tower hits in the process and even if he has an ability that provides ranged harass he'd be over extending into your side of the map to use it, so chances are he'll just hide in the brush waiting for you to push back out farther into the lane.

On the other hand, continously AA'ing while out of your tower's range and letting your creeps tank the enemy creeps would definitely allow you to slowly heal.... presuming the enemy champion simply let you do it. Chances are he won't though, and you're especially vulnerable to harass while attacking creeps. You'll also end up pushing your lane this way as well, even without the Wriggle's, making you vulnerable to ganks.

Wriggle's is good for her if you're doing badly because it'll usually make enough of a difference to start making 1vs1 exchanges favorable for you as it gives you AD, armor and lifesteal, all of which are good for exchanges, not to mention it supplements nicely with W's passive even while last hitting giving you a good amount of regen. BUT buying a Wriggle's will also delay your core by a fair amount. That's what most people think about the subject as far as I know anyway. Like I said earlier, IMO if buying a Wriggle's lane clogging is necessary for her. I usually only get Wriggles if I lose my tower early and want to lane clog.

Lane clogging with a Wriggle's as Irelia is super effective, and very frustrating for the enemy champion as he'll be confused as to what to do. You'll clear the creeps with ease. If he actually pushes all the way to your second tower, he'll be super vulnerable to ganks. If he tries to jungle the enemy jungler won't be too happy about sharing creeps with him, and if he tries to gank other lanes, as long as there's proper warding he'll fail and his allies in lane wouldn't want him to hang around after the attempt to divide xp and gold.