lacks defense i.e. health

indeed she lacks health if u use this build. a defensive item would be good.

im sry but i dont understand how can u do anything with irelia using this build...
ur gonna be so squishy, ull die the second u will show ur face in a teamfight... imo irelia role should be an offtank-anti carry, and she is perfect for it. if u wanna carry with a melee, just play with yi, he has the speed and damage output to pull this role off( still, its very hard to do it)... cause unlike the name of the build, irelia is most definitely NOT the next master yi:( even me in my low elo of 1400-1350 can understand this

+1 with previous comment

This build is a lot like I build, except I opt for another phantom dancer or armor/MR item instead of Trinity. Also, I only use Armor Pierce for the marks and quints. I use armor for the seals and CDR for the glyphs. You have a much easier time of running through enemies with those runes.

Also, with the item build the way I use it, you won't need the AS runes as you'll almost be at 2.5 AS.

My Irelia Build

Try this out and let me know if it works better for you.
Note: I don't include instructions on when to build the items. That's at the player's discretion, but I recommend boots first with health potions.

good one :)

This build has so many "wrong" choices, I don't even know where to start.. I think you are misinterpreting Irelias role pretty hard.


Wrong. Ignite is very useful on her and you don't really need more escape mechanisms if you're building and playing her right.

Make item order more clear , 8 items including 2 boots ... pretty stupid its supposed to quickly show a default build not to put in every item you can use .
Rune choice is pretty stupid , you say you take arp because you need it and you take as because you need it , why AS marks and arp quint instead of both AS or both ARP? and the yellow runes are just pure joke , AS dodge mp5 or even health is much better , AD rune are totaly useless .
You say you need AS for more healing via hiten style while the most important part is the dmg output via the true damage / swing and madred procs , when you will have enought AS to see a difference 26 healing will not make a huge difference .
And finnaly , you say that with madred you will crush the tanks , stop that stupid idea MADRED IS GOOD FOR ANY TARGETS WITH LOW MR , not because you use it to counter high health + armor target that its only for that purpose , on a 30 MR carry it pull very nice dmg output specialy if you take sorcerers boots/malady
Finally , ignite is not that good on irelia you need much more flash or cleanse because you have no escape mechanism .

better then the rest of the guides :D

nicw build

I love this build! Always use it if i wanna carry with irelia. It works both for 3v3 and 5v5 :) Though i like to start with a dorans because i think you need that extra life early on and boots is just unnecessary when you have q early game. Thumbs up from me! +1

Great build ! I` ve tried many of Irelia builds before but that one is best :) Thanks to you and i hope that you will make more builds like that :D


Cheers to you !