Irelia Build Guide : [UPDATED] Fight For The First Lands- Xan Irelia Guide!

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Why do you go double adaptive instead of attack speed and adaptive

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oh i just saw that ahaha, my mistake of course attack speed and adaptive is better, thanks for pointing it out of me!

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Thanks for explain the mythics. I really need to know when to use each.

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no problem ;) let me know if you need any help!

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good vs yone

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Really happy to hear that you used the information i wrote on the guide and conquered that double sworded ninja

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Truly an amazing guide!!! I gotta return often for the matchups and so. Thanks for expalining wave management and splitpush btw, my bronze self is grateful.

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Thank you so much for your kind words!!! <3 It fealt really good reading your comment since thats why i did this guide, in order to help irelia players! My ex bronze self is gratefull too, hope you climb !!!

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It's great, you must have spent a lot of time with it

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Τhanks so much!!! Your comment means a lot ;p. Yeah i have put in a few countless hours..... it took me a while thats the only thing for sure. And i still have a lot to improve. The only hard part was the coding , content wise as an irelia main i knew everything so...

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Hello SaltCat! I was notified that I had received a request! I can definitely be of assistance.

These are going to be the things that we are going to be looking through ideally with this review.

STRUCTURE: This is basically how you code, place and use code from a tidy and neat viewpoint.

CONSISTENCY: Basically how often you switch things up. Some parts might be a mess and others great.

INCLUDINGS: These are things that could be added like Runes, Items, Matchups or entire sections.

MY CONCERNS: Things that I find not really interesting to apply to a guide or just filler.

This section of ones guide should be both detailed and easy to read without being too overwhelming to the readers.

It starts off fine, but as you scroll down the item list, you have an unnecessary amount of "full" build options, this is really annoying to look at as it does overwhelm. You'd be much better simply adding a "Situational" items section, or at the very least showing the standard build for Irelia like, , , or , and such followed by situational. Obviously not in that exact order, but definitely BOTRK as first pick.

isn't really seen on these days as there are better items to choose from. You get enough from just BOTRK in terms of sustain and damage. Overall there are too many options to choose from in your item section.

While yes, she can do a lot of these things, she is mostly going to do very well with her standardized build.

Rune wise, I'd definitely remove on the first rune as is overall the better choice overall.

Nothing really much to say about this section, standard information for each match-up achieved.

Alright... so... It's obvious you are still new to BBCODE as everything is copied pretty much from the BBCODE guide. You can definitely tidy up your guide to be more presentable most notable is your banner headers for each guide chapter.

The chapter banners are small, hard to read the text "And now I dance alone" which I read as "Find now I dance alone" while in general the dimensions are not the right size since it's a part of a very large transparent image which could be fixed by stretching or resizing it to fit the entire transparency. This makes it very hard to separate each section as a viewer.

Besides this, each section gets a bit more messy as you scroll down which if we compare the first two sections, the first one has a column bbcode display of Left to Right with the abilities in between where as the next section Pros and Cons has a Left to Right display with the abilities below Irelia without the border around her icon, which looks better than the first.

IMAGES AND BORDERS

You do use a ton of squished together code with these breakers, listed in the BBCODE guide, alternatively you can just use.

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[rule] [rule2]

Otherwise, you can use proper spacing.

Just like this between each section of information.

It's an easier and tidier alternative.

Scrolling down to your Abilities explained there is definitely much to be desired from this section. It's got a good vibe to it, but it is destroyed by structure. Everything is way to squished together, as we stated previous, you should properly space your sections out so as to avoid this kind of problem.

You could also add in some visual references like default videos displaying each skill in action or you can make your own!

While also displaying each combo or ability tricks in their designated slots as opposed to listing them below everything. Basically a whole redesign of this section to be more condensed into each of their sections, includes the section below it.

It's just a lot of text and combos to have listed as a wall of text, something like a spoiler tag would be able to condense it all to look more neat and tidy while also being an optional thing for a reader to open and be less overwhelmed.

As you scroll down the guide, the texts and imagery are all different in places, really tightly packed together with no spaces and relatively small imagery which is difficult to really focus on.

You do a lot of different things from... LEFT -> RIGHT, LEFT -> DOWN -> RIGHT, BBCODE which is very inconsistent with the rest of the guide. By this I mean champion matchups are a simple LEFT -> RIGHT.

The next section below it, Early Game is a similar but different style Left -> Right alternating each side with Summoners or Icons. Which isn't really that great as you'd wanna focus on the image first to stay on track with the rest of the guide.

The biggest section I would suggest changing completely to once again stay consistent with the rest of the body text is your "Item Explanations" this does not fit with the rest, it's very bulky and squished due to 3 columns taking up so much space in a what is normally only 720 width body text. It's too much, and could be displayed in a much better and cleaner format.

Example

You can notice one big thing. I personally don't care for too much, but there are a ton of grammatical errors in this guide.
If you have fluent speaking friends who speak English, I would recommend for them to proof read the body text to help.

You have what it takes to make a solid guide, but lack in a lot of things like consistency and actually displaying your content to your reader. Take a read over this review and try your best to apply what I have suggested as it will help out in the end. ~Cat

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Thank you for replying so quickly ;D, and also thanks for the review, i definetly have a lot to fix and improve, obviously that cant happen in a day but slowly i believe that i will use a lot of your recommendations!!! thanks a lot
-From one Cat to an other ;D

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I always reply quickly.

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In the standard build you put shieldbow and sterak together!

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Hello! You are right i have out steracks and shieldbow together... sorry my mistake their passive shields dont work.

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A really good guide, inspired me to play Irelia <3

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Happy to hear that! That was my primary goal. Welcome to the Irelia Players Club <3

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Hello again!

I was wondering your thoughts about for 11.1? I know it has been nerfed a decent amount recently (and might be nerfed in 11.1), so it may be worse than in previous patches, but it does provide some decent frontline. Your thoughts?

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Well sunfire before the nerfs pretty much worked on any champion ;D, it used to work for but only if you were insanely ahead, something like 7/0 at 10 minutes, but now its not viable, the only reason it worked is because it was broken, it can definetly work still but not as a standart option, more like a situational one when your team lacks frontline and you are ahead, only then i would buy it!

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Hey there,

Here’s the review you asked for in the thread!

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Cheatsheet and build

Summoner Spells: I do not agree with taking Exhaust in any scenario. Irelia has ways to counter burst damage ( Defiant Dance, dashing around with Bladesurge). Most of the time the offensive capabilities of Ignite are worth way more than Exhaust. Besides that, the main focus of this guide is on toplane so I would refrain from dipping into midlane choices. If you really want to do that, make a separate build in the basic setup.
Runes: The way you showcase runes is kinda tricky. You got a “standard” page, which on first sight seems to be the best page. However, in the notes you mention that it is best for new Irelia players. The 3rd rune page is actually your best "standard" page. I would change the notes/title of the 1st page so that it becomes clear that this page is best for newer players, but not optimal for more advanced ones.
Items: Do not put troll things in the cheat sheet. If you are unsure whether particular items are actually viable or they are very niche I feel like it’s better to leave them out of the cheatsheet altogether. jk Sorcerer's Shoes
Items: The cheat sheet should be a quick tool to explain the build & items. Yours is an overview of everything you can take, which is about the equivalent of the ingame shop. This doesn't really help your readers understand what to build. You should split the “legendary item choices” block up. There will always be people that only look at the cheatsheet and they don’t get more information compared to just looking at the in-game shop. Right now it is a total chaos with defensive, offensive and specific situational choices all thrown together.
Items: It looks like you always rush Blade of the Ruined King on Irelia, before your mythic apparently. You should list this very explicitly as it is extremely common to build mythics before anything else.

Pros/Cons, Team Compositions

The pros/cons descriptions both consist of 1 sentence. This is definitely not something to be proud of, sentences should have like 25 words max. Not 164. These descriptions are also giving me a wall of text vibe. Try to split the text up in paragraphs and making it more concise.
I always prefer it if the pros/cons lists are as concise as possible. Any explaining is done in the description next to them, not in the lists themselves.
At when not to pick you say “You should picking Irelia if your team doesn’t have an engager because if Irelia goes in first she will most likely die, build tanky if that’s the case”. This doesn’t really make sense to me.

Runes

At the Press the Attack description there is a lot of doubt ingrained in your words. Do not spend too much time doubting the choice and yourself. Merely state when it could be valuable and note that you haven’t had much success with it & think the other option is just better. You could even consider removing this option altogether, it depends on what message you want to relay to your readers.
A lot of the runes come down to this: X is really nice because of Y, it’s a great option on Irelia! This is a common trap, explaining why certain choices are good and neglecting to explain WHEN a certain choice is good. The latter is the main reason why people look at guides and you should try to do it as much as possible.
I’ll mention it again to stress it’s relevance: keep your guide “toplane”. If you wish to describe the details and differences of midlane Irelia compared to toplane it is better to do so in an additional chapter. Don’t switch between midlane & toplane in the middle of description, it confuses me.
I’d adjust the Domination description to make it like the Inspiration and Resolve descriptions. Right now it merely states what the Domination runes do. (It’s like saying “ Resolve is used for more defenses”).

Items

When do you consider taking Doran's Blade?
I'm a bit skeptical of some mythic choices (most notably, Stridebreaker and to a lesser extent, Eclipse and Goredrinker). However I do not know enough about Irelia to say something about this matter.
Again, try to focus when to build certain items instead of explaining why they’re good. Take Ravenous Hydra description for example.
Elixirs are not legendary items

Abilities, Combo’s

1st Tip Ionian Fervor. The sentence of this description is again a very long sentence.
Also slightly confused by Flawless Duet #2. If the duration is over you can’t use it anymore?
Due to the nature and complexity of the combo’s you could always consider adding some clips. This also applies some of the ability tips.
Why is the heal on Bladesurge not mentioned? I’ve seen a fair share of Irelia plays and most of the time they use it as much as possible when fighting.

Gameplay

The bit on freezing is flat out wrong. The way you describe the freeze only works when the minion wave is even/slightly on the enemy side of the map. Considering that freezing is always done on your side of the map this doesn’t make any sense. Also saying that if there are 5 bonus minions in the wave can deny the enemy 35 minions doesn’t make any sense. If you are executing a freeze perfectly you can hold it almost indefinitely…
You cover a nice amount of gameplay information. Of course you could always be more extensive on some specific topics, but it is good as it is.

Presentation

The presentation does it’s job, makes the text easy to digest and you got a cohesive theme throughout the guide. A few comments:

TOC. Please create the sidebar TOC if you don’t know what I mean, please say then I’ll explain it. This makes it much, much easier for people to navigate your guide or check whether specific parts are present.
The placement & visuals of the matchup section. Honestly once I got there I just didn’t want to continue reading. It’s basically a big wall & the rest of the guide is hidden behind it. I think it is a good idea to move it further down the guide, possibly below the gameplay chapters. This way casual readers don’t get disturbed and people specifically looking for matchup info can just go down there.

As for the visuals, all the matchups are sitting on top of each other. This gives the whole thing a “wall” vibe. A suggestion to fix it: code in other spoiler
I'm not a fan of the items format, it is extremely hard for me to get an overview of the items and when I should go what. Maybe this is just me being biased towards vertical formats instead of horizontal ones, but it is something to think about regardless.
I’d put some distance between the abilities in the ability explanation part. It’s also all kind of glued together, much like the matchups.
There are some spelling mistakes littered around your guide, I Recommend throwing it in a google doc/Microsoft Word and running a spelling check to sniff them out. Also, keep in mind that 'I' is always capitalized.
In the gameplay section, perhaps you could utilize clips/images instead of splasharts that show what you’re talking about. The splasharts are fine, but if you can think of any images/clips that show what you're talking about then definitely add those.

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[color=yellow][b]Darius[/b][/color][/center][/td][td width=10][/td][td]Darius is an overall unbalanced champ, you will be jumping around, doing a lot of highlight plays hitting everyskill shot, while he just aa you 5 times then R and boop, you dead! This is an excellent ban choice for new  Irelia players! In case you did not ban him and you are against him, i suggest you play passive for early levels, start E  Flawless Duet level 1 and farm from distance, use your Q  Bladesurge to dodge his Q, or you can use your Q  Bladesurge on minions in order to dodge it, and then jump on him,an other super cool tip is to use your E  Flawless Duet when he is about to use E on you, you can cast E  Flawless Duet while you are cced so you get a free E hit!One last tip is to have ignite, or grevious in the early game which can greatly help![/td][/tr]
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[color=yellow][b]Jax[/b][/color][/center][/td][td width=10][/td][td]I fear no man, but this thing scares me, he is a HUGE counter to  Irelia you can be 10/0 and lose to a 0/10 jax easily, my tip is ban him most of the times like i do, if not then start E Flawless Duet and farm safely if he started E  Counter Strike , if not you can win, use your Q  Bladesurge to dodge his E  Counter Strike or you can E  Flawless Duet on him to get away, as the game goes on you will start to lose vs him, eventually being destroyed by just a simple Q-W-E so i suggest you ban him if you are an experienced irelia player.[/td][/tr]
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[color=yellow][b]Renekton[/b][/color][/center][/td][td width=10][/td][td]I have such harsh feeligs for this croc, that i am wearing crocks in order to feel like i am stepping on him ;D, in game our beloved croc is actually weak levels 1 and 2! Meaning that you have an opening,your only one, to win the early game, play smart and stack your passie  Ionian Fervor level 1 with your Q  Bladesurge ,check below on how to do that correctly, then jump on him when you have 4 stacks, level 2 you can still win vs him if you have your passive, level 3 STOP, just stop being aggresive and play like a cat, i was gonna say something else but you all get what i mean, and farm, i mean it dont even attemp to fight him just farm, UNLESS you had him low from levels 1 and 2 if yes then you have the advantage, as the game progresses you will start to beat him, around when you have bork  Blade of the Ruined King, until then you want to farm only.[/td][/tr]
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I think you got a pretty good guide here, although you have to take a good look at the cheatsheet & sidebar TOC. Besides that there are some details, but those are not too difficult to handle I think. If you wish to expand on information I think you should critically look at 's kit & mechanics. Considering her skill floor you can still expand on this.

I think this guide should be further up the list, so have a Scout+.

I hope you are able to do something with the feedback, feel free to reply if you have any questions/remarks.
Anyways, good luck with updating & upgrading your guide and I wish you a happy new year!

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Hey its me again! I have done a lot of changes and i want to thank you for your review! But i have one more question, i am confused about your review about the pros/cons section i couldnt understand it, if you dont mind pls explain it to me.

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I'm basically saying that the explanations are poorly written. It's more or less a standard in writing that you shouldn't make your sentences as long as you did. You should look to rewrite those two paragraphs.
Mostly aiming at the negative where you say she has no mobility and then continue to list an example, which in my opinion, should be done in the description next to the list.
This one is pretty straightforward, I have 0 clue what you are trying to say with that particular sentence.

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Thank you, now i get it ;D i will fix it as soon as possible!

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Well thank you for the review, really nice to hear your opinion, also happy new year, first of all i have no idea what sidebar TOC is ;D, and i will surely make changes, thank you! ( I tried so hard to not make any spelling mistakes damn.... :( )

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The Sidebar TOC is basically this thing that can be found on the right side of a guide:

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Well i couldnt edit well the chapter images so i just didnt put anything, thats why it doesnt show up.

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You can just add the chapter titles, do not add any URL to "Header Image URL" & make sure "Title" is turned off :)

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If I may, what I did was put each of the titles and clicked Hide "Title". I also hid "Chapters Header" at the top and checked "Fade Chapters Header" as secondary precautions.

I then put my designed headers just in code in each chapter at the top.
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I hope this helps!

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Thank you! I believe that i have done it right now and the sidebar shows up!

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