Talk:Irelia/@comment-2112140-20140108083235

Some might question what I think about Irelia:

Irelia was a very divine champion when she was released, she was considered pretty weak by normal players, but she was quite strong in the competitive scene. The competitive scene wasn't very well know when Irelia was released so not many people actually picked up Irelia as they didn't know about her insane hypercarry potential. I personally didn't want to buy Irelia at first but I liked the champion a lot. I became interested in Irelia after playing a bottom lane Amumu with an Irelia on our team. I don't know why but when she got kills after my ult and her whole skillset just seemed very interesting to me. So then I saved up to buy Irelia and went to play some custom games to test her out. First of all I joined a PvP game with levels 10-18 or something and I was 2v3(with another low level player) yet we still won with my stats being quite good but my build being random shit I thought was good atm. I then played a botgame as Irelia and went 30+/2/idk. Immediately after that I jumped into PvP still not knowing a proper build for Irelia and then my first build idea started. "Hmm.. My E scales with 1.0 AP and I know I need a triforce later on so Q does dmg" Ok HYBRID IRELIA TIME! So I'd start with dorans blade then my build would go berzerker greaves->guinsoo->hextech->triforce->luxury items Now I understand these items are terrible but back then everyone was pretty terrible so games mostly ended with scores like 8/8/x|9/9/x|10/10/x so basically every kill I'd make would end in my death aswell. Then I actually found out about MOBAfire and decided to check for some Irelia guides and I found a guide like this: Dorans Shield for start, Mercury Threads/Tabi for boots Core: Spirit Visage and Wits End Situational: Wriggles Lantern and then items like Triforce IE Thornmail Bloodthirster etc. Situationals. Well my build became a cookie-cutter every game. Every game would go like this: I get Dorans Shield Mercury Threads Spirit Visage Wits End Triforce IE Thornmail(selling dorans somewhere) I'd max W>Q>E as opposed to my previous decision of E>Q>W(the complete opposite o_o) Anyways I became quite adept at Irelia's mechanics at that moment and I began playing Irelia much more, I even got a quadra in ranked. Nowadays I don't play a lot of Irelia since she's transitioned into the toplane which I don't ever play at all unless I am forced into it.