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Gameplay
- Champion Spotlight
- Recommended Items
Tips
- Playing As
- Use to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
- Save your attacks for the right moment.
- Reserving for losing battles can often turn the tide.
- Playing Against
- Be wary of Irelia's , as it stuns if you have a higher Health % than her.
- Irelia can quickly cover great distances by using on low life targets (its cooldown refreshes if it slays the target).
Tricks
- Ability Usage
- crowd control due to her extended tenacity.
- For this reason, assassin and very capable at targeting and killing carries due to the difficulty involved in keeping her off them with crowd control. is a feared
- 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 with active will not proc 's bonus tenacity.
is her staple ability, making it very difficult to lock her down in teamfights and skirmishes with - 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 on it, so you still kill it successfully without losing cooldown or too much mana.
- on-hit effects, including the true damage dealt by , the magic damage from , and it will proc and immediately apply the additional damage from , albeit only every two seconds per its cooldown limitations. applies
- Use minions on your way to champion targets.
- Inversely, targeting enemy minions can help escape from ganks.
- By using on a full health ranged minion while having , you will usually kill a full health ranged minion instantly, so you can use it one more time.
- Use at range to soften up a minion to open up opportunities for a successful reset.
to cover great distances by targeting low health
is a powerful farming tool as it refreshes and refunds - true damage per attack.
- Combined with , this combo makes Irelia among the best champions at last-hitting under allied turrets.
- attack speed. The more hits can land within the duration of its active means increased sustain and increased damage output. synergizes strongly with
- turrets, as it heals on-hit. She may activate this while pushing for extra sustain in lane. also heals while attacking structures such as
- True damage cannot be negated, so keep in mind that the active cannot be negated by or any attack damage debuff.
- However, an attack speed slow such as will reduce your sustain and damage output.
gives exceptional laning strength. Each level will provide increased sustain and bonus - health has compared to her target. If higher, it will slow. If lower, it will stun.
- This gives
- For this reason, it is often best to save until later in a fight to secure a sudden advantage and turn around.
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 a means of escape.
- 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 in order to avoid and survive a potential early gank during laning.
will either stun or slow depending on the total % of - This gives
- Remember that champions than striking minions.
- In a teamfight, it's generally best to aim
- You can also use to position yourself to hit the most amount of enemies with .
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.
- combined with makes a rather strong combo to kill fleeing enemies.
will heal for more when striking - In a teamfight, it's generally best to aim
- 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.
- can give you a "stepping stone". By using it to lower health of ranged minions, you can dash continuously when using on them.
- Wait for the spellblade proc from or to refresh before casting to maximize damage output.
allows for strong, multi-target damage and sustain, giving increased survivability in fights, especially when focusing down important targets.
- Remember that champions than striking minions.
- Even though health than her at level 6. Opening with , activating and immediately, and as the opponent flees and gains some distance (so you can land another autoattack or even more with . This combo is capable of dealing a lot of damage. Combined with and , 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 onto a low health minion near your enemy, then follow with a , attack him and then after landing an auto attack or if he runs away. By using this trick, you can burn 2 of the enemy champion's .
has a lot of sustain, she also has a lot of burst damage when her opponent has more
- Item Usage
- attack speed to use more effectively. grants a small boost in mobility, and
- mana increase also allows to use to farm and last-hit minions more often, especially in a lane she cannot control and is forced against the turret. applies itself automatically on , boosting its damage. Each individual blade of activates (but does not apply) the / proc. The
- adds onto chasing potential with CC, and additional AD/health is always essential on a melee champion. You should buy it first (after a if you have mana problem).
is recommended for a good reason, as shown by its components and subsequent easy build-up:
- can be a good alternative to . Especially if the enemy deals a lot of physical damage.
- Attack Speed should be a priority to DPS-focused players, because of the damage potential and healing of .
- magic resistance and the bonus on-hit damage. is a great item on because of the attack speed,
- is also great, giving more AS, as well as sustain and a strong active.
- When considering defense, remember that
- health back when in trouble, as well as giving her some nice CDR to use her abilities even more often.
- Even though it stacks multiplicatively with her , is still a good choice, as it helps you stick to your target.
along with and allows to gain a great amount of - Note: Being revived with a while having one left will revive you with four blades ready.
not only gives you armor and magic resist, but the passive allows you to be much more aggressive in teamfights.
has 2 ways of healing, and thus armor and magic resist are valued somewhat higher. You still want health to protect against burst damage.
- health back when in trouble, as well as giving her some nice CDR to use her abilities even more often.
- Countering
- In fact, champions with attack speed slows, such as and , have a much easier time against Irelia. They are also too tanky for her to beat easily.
is a champion that relies on attack speed. A is a good counter to her AS. also works, arguably better, due to providing HP, which reduces her true damage and burst. However, it only helps to protect yourself, while helps to protect your entire team against Irelia's damage.
- Most crowd control effects are not very effective against Irelia due to Template:Cctip and Template:Cctip crowd control.
- For suppression, champions like and 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 to counter those suppression effects.
- For knock-ups, champions like , and the aforementioned can give her headaches during teamfights.
granting her enormous amounts of tenacity. However, tenacity cannot reduce the effects of - Try to disengage when you see her 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
- After that, by using the same logic, you can buy or stack health ( is good since it has many upgraded paths).
in the first trip back is a great way to counter if you are having trouble vs her, since most of her damage come from basic autoattacks but note that 's true damage can not be reduced by .
- 's 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 or or disengage like is always a good idea.
- Ask for early ganks, shut her down early. Snowball champions like are nightmares for to deal with when they are ahead. Though 's power will allow her to turn the lane around if she gets enough levels. , for example, cannot burst after enough levels have passed, causing to win lane.
- It is recommended not to fight
- Try to counter her healing with Template:Cctip. It can be quite powerful in early game. 's
in minion waves. Her allows her to heal a lot of damage if it deals damage to both you and minions.
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