Great guide!

I used this guide almost exactly (just a couple minor tweaks to runes + masteries) and it was very helpful. I usually play jungle Warwick, but this is so much fun that Irelia might become my new main or at least close second :) I was afraid Irelia would be kind of on the slow side to jungle, but actually her jungle speed is very impressive.

I played 4 games using this style today, won 3 out of 4. The last game actually I went top instead of jungle since our Shaco wanted jungle. I was 1v2 against a Riven and Lux since the other team had no jungler, but used the same build except for phil stone first for earlier gold (as I was getting no farm) but other that same as jungling and it went well. We actually won the game 4v5 (well technically was 5v5 for the first 10 min or so, but our Ashe went 0-3 due to lag then quit for good).

One big weakness of Irelia (in my limited experience) is the same as Warwick, you really don't have any good escape except for Flash if it's on cooldown, or in Irelia's case, Q to enemy minions in some cases. So.. you probably don't want to counter-jungle much if at all, and you need good map awareness, lots of wards. In other words you can't play Irelia like a Shaco and just jump around in enemy territory. But as long as you play kind of defensively, it seems to work out very good. Irelia seems to work out great as a tank so far, since even though you don't have taunt, her skills (in particular Q) are threatening enough that some of them will target you. It's hard to ignore someone jumping into and twirling blades at your face, so I was able to make myself a target that way pretty easily.

Good job :)

Nice guide...

Please i hate GA on anyone except people like cho'gath.

You may need more armor...

Spirit visage is lovely, too...

Thats all i got....

Hey, what's with the 3 different quints? Is that really needed?

On masteries: Why are you taking a point on Summoner's Resolve and not maxing Initiatior. If you're going 0/21/9 I'd take Initiatior, no question about it.

Since Hitten has true dmg and jungle creep have low armor, wouldn't it be a lot faster to jungle Irelia packing atk speed or flat dmg than armor pen marks?

About the build: If you are taking a philo before a madreds, why don't you start with a regrowth pendant then? this makes no sense.

Your quint of endurance will only give you about +28 hp when you complete the whole build... why wouldn't you just take the +26hp quint? It's more hp for like 30 minutes of game.

Having 1 point in initiation and 1 speed rune, you won't run considerably faster than anyone.

The build is cool but its full tank. Like really really herpy derpy full tank. I mean you're lacking some dmg in the late game. Everyone knows that an irelia with a sheen is rape ready but why bothering taking soooo much tanky items if you are not going to get focused a lot in teamfights. Make a choice between banshee's and FoN (I'd take FoN any day of the week) and between randuins/GA (I'd take randuins cos of getting an early HoG).
Try building this:
-Boots of you ain't gonna stun me for sure cos im Irelia and I'm op with this item
-Trinity
-Warmogs
-Atma's
-Force of Nature
-Randuins

Same as your build, you end up losing wriggles at the six item. Dmg and tankiness provided. The good ol' Trinity Von Atmogs.


other notes:
-Runic affinity IS NOT A MUST for jungling. Remove that blasphemy.
-Surge is not an alternative, I'm quite sure of that.
-Ignite is also not an option. It removes ganking potential other spells have (flash, ghost, exhaust).
-Starting at wolves and finishing them before blue spawns should be talked about in this guide or you wont even finish your route at lvl 4.

Peace bro.