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Gameplay

Champion Spotlight
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Tips

Playing As Irelia Irelia
  • Use Bladesurge Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
  • Save your Transcendent Blades Transcendent Blades attacks for the right moment.
  • Reserving Equilibrium Strike Equilibrium Strike for losing battles can often turn the tide.
Playing Against Irelia Irelia
  • Be wary of Irelia's Equilibrium Strike Equilibrium Strike, as it stuns if you have a higher Health % than her.
  • Irelia can quickly cover great distances by using Bladesurge Bladesurge on low life targets (its cooldown refreshes if it slays the target).

Tricks

Ability Usage
  • Ionian Fervor Ionian Fervor is her staple ability, making it very difficult to lock her down in teamfights and skirmishes with crowd control due to her extended tenacity.
    • For this reason, Irelia Irelia is a feared assassin and very capable at targeting and killing carries due to the difficulty involved in keeping her off them with crowd control.
    • Bear in mind that this tenacity does not reduce the crowd control applied by Template:Cctip or Template:Cctip.
    • Invisible units, such as enemy champions in brush or Twitch Twitch with Ambush Ambush active will not proc Ionian Fervor Ionian Fervor's bonus tenacity.
  • Bladesurge Bladesurge is a powerful farming tool as it refreshes and refunds mana if it kills the targeted enemy, including minions, and also serves as a gap closer.
    • If you miss when last hitting a minion, quickly use your Bladesurge Bladesurge on it, so you still kill it successfully without losing cooldown or too much mana.
    • Bladesurge Bladesurge applies on-hit effects, including the true damage dealt by Hiten Style Hiten Style, the magic damage from Wit's End Wit's End, and it will proc and immediately apply the additional damage from Sheen Sheen, albeit only every two seconds per its cooldown limitations.
    • Use Bladesurge Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low health minions on your way to champion targets.
      • Inversely, targeting enemy minions can help Irelia Irelia escape from ganks.
      • By using Bladesurge Bladesurge on a full health ranged minion while having Trinity Force Trinity Force, you will usually kill a full health ranged minion instantly, so you can use it one more time.
      • Use Transcendent Blades Transcendent Blades at range to soften up a minion to open up opportunities for a successful Bladesurge Bladesurge reset.
  • Hiten Style Hiten Style gives Irelia Irelia exceptional laning strength. Each level will provide increased sustain and bonus true damage per attack.
    • Combined with Bladesurge Bladesurge, this combo makes Irelia among the best champions at last-hitting under allied turrets.
    • Hiten Style Hiten Style synergizes strongly with attack speed. The more hits Irelia Irelia can land within the duration of its active means increased sustain and increased damage output.
    • Hiten Style Hiten Style also heals while attacking structures such as turrets, as it heals on-hit. She may activate this while pushing for extra sustain in lane.
    • True damage cannot be negated, so keep in mind that the Hiten Style Hiten Style active cannot be negated by Exhaust Exhaust or any attack damage debuff.
      • However, an attack speed slow such as Ground Slam Ground Slam will reduce your sustain and damage output.
  • Irelia's Irelia's Equilibrium Strike Equilibrium Strike will either stun or slow depending on the total % of health Irelia Irelia has compared to her target. If higher, it will slow. If lower, it will stun.
    • This gives Equilibrium Strike Equilibrium Strike a lot of flexibility in its use - it will slow in a chasing situation, and stun to either turn the tides of a fight or give Irelia Irelia a means of escape.
      • For this reason, it is often best to save Equilibrium Strike Equilibrium Strike until later in a fight to secure a sudden advantage and turn around.
    • To help your jungler gank your lane, purposefully letting your health drop below your target's can provide a much-needed stun to ensure a kill.
    • Consider investing your first skill point into Equilibrium Strike Equilibrium Strike in order to avoid and survive a potential early gank during laning.
  • Transcendent Blades Transcendent Blades allows for strong, multi-target damage and sustain, giving Irelia Irelia increased survivability in fights, especially when focusing down important targets.
    • Remember that Transcendent Blades Transcendent Blades will heal Irelia Irelia for more when striking champions than striking minions.
      • In a teamfight, it's generally best to aim Transcendent Blades Transcendent Blades to hit as many champions as possible to keep you alive, rather than directly at a single target for extra damage, as this will give you the best sustain. With proper positioning, both these effects can be achieved without having to compromise. For example, shift around to fire the blades forward into the bulk of the enemy team while also hitting the main target.
      • During laning, fire into as large of a minion group as possible to regain large amounts of health either to continue laning or to survive a skirmish.
      • Ignite Ignite combined with Transcendent Blades Transcendent Blades makes a rather strong combo to kill fleeing enemies.
    • If coordinated well, it also makes an effective tool for escaping ganks or failed team fights at low health. By clicking the edge of your screen and firing off a few blades, you can heal from the enemy champions chasing you to buy time to escape.
    • Transcendent Blades Transcendent Blades can give you a "stepping stone". By using it to lower health of ranged minions, you can dash continuously when using Bladesurge Bladesurge on them.
    • Wait for the spellblade proc from Sheen Sheen or Trinity Force Trinity Force to refresh before casting Bladesurge Bladesurge to maximize damage output.
  • Even though Irelia Irelia has a lot of sustain, she also has a lot of burst damage when her opponent has more health than her at level 6. Opening with Equilibrium Strike Equilibrium Strike, activating Hiten Style Hiten Style and Transcendent Blades Transcendent Blades immediately, and Bladesurge Bladesurge as the opponent flees and gains some distance (so you can land another autoattack or even more with Phage Phage. This combo is capable of dealing a lot of damage. Combined with Ignite Ignite and Sheen Sheen, it can even kill somebody from full health in a few seconds.
    • Irelia also can burst at level 2 (though you can only do that with a level advantage, or if your enemy has wasted an ability). Use your Bladesurge Bladesurge onto a low health minion near your enemy, then follow with aEquilibrium Strike Equilibrium Strike, attack him and then Bladesurge Bladesurge after landing an auto attack or if he runs away. By using this trick, you can burn 2 of the enemy champion's health potions health potions.
Item Usage
Countering
  • Irelia Irelia is a champion that relies on attack speed. A Frozen Heart Frozen Heart is a good counter to her AS. Randuin's Omen Randuin's Omen also works, arguably better, due to providing HP, which reduces her true damage and burst. However, it only helps to protect yourself, while Frozen Heart Frozen Heart helps to protect your entire team against Irelia's damage.
    • In fact, champions with attack speed slows, such as Malphite Malphite and Nasus Nasus, have a much easier time against Irelia. They are also too tanky for her to beat easily.
  • Most crowd control effects are not very effective against Irelia due to Ionian Fervor Ionian Fervor granting her enormous amounts of tenacity. However, tenacity cannot reduce the effects of Template:Cctip and Template:Cctip crowd control.
    • For suppression, champions like Malzahar Malzahar and Warwick Warwick are good options against Irelia. They can suppress her during teamfights, giving your teammates enough time to kill her. But keep in mind that Irelia can buy a Quicksilver Sash Quicksilver Sash to counter those suppression effects.
    • For knock-ups, champions like Wukong Wukong, Zac Zac and the aforementioned Malphite Malphite can give her headaches during teamfights.
  • Try to disengage when you see her Hiten Style Hiten Style is activating. It only has a 6s duration and the true damage and on hit heal allows her to trade. Try to harass her back when it is on cooldown.
  • Buying a Doran's Shield Doran's Shield in the first trip back is a great way to counter Irelia Irelia if you are having trouble vs her, since most of her damage come from basic autoattacks but note that Hiten Style Hiten Style 's true damage can not be reduced by Doran's Shield Doran's Shield.
    • After that, by using the same logic, you can buy Ninja Tabi Ninja Tabi or stack health (Giant's Belt Giant's Belt is good since it has many upgraded paths).
  • Irelia Irelia's Equilibrium Strike Equilibrium Strike makes her trading deceptively strong. Keep in mind that it will stun you if your current % of health is higher than hers.
  • As a top lane champion that relies on reaching an enemy and sticking to them to apply her on hit true damage, picking a champion that can outdo her constant damage once she enters melee range like Xin Zhao Xin Zhao or Udyr Udyr or disengage like Renekton Renekton is always a good idea.
  • Ask for early ganks, shut her down early. Snowball champions like Riven Riven are nightmares for Irelia Irelia to deal with when they are ahead. Though Irelia Irelia's power will allow her to turn the lane around if she gets enough levels. Riven Riven, for example, cannot burst Irelia Irelia after enough levels have passed, causing Irelia Irelia to win lane.
  • It is recommended not to fight Irelia Irelia in minion waves. Her Transcendent Blades Transcendent Blades allows her to heal a lot of damage if it deals damage to both you and minions.
    • Try to counter her healing with Ignite Ignite's Template:Cctip. It can be quite powerful in early game.

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