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(13.6) Eriosun's MASTER TIER Complete IRELIA Guide

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Runes: FAV RUNE SET, WORKS WITH ANY BUILD

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Precision

Conqueror

Triumph

Legend: Alacrity

Last Stand

Inspiration

Magical Footwear

Biscuit Delivery

Bonus:

+10% Attack Speed
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+15-140 HP (lvls 1-18)

Spells:

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FLASH IGNITE

Flash

Ignite

Items

STARTERS

•VS SAFE LANERS

•DORAN'S SWORD +1 POT WHEN PLAYING WITHOUT INSPIRATION

•DORAN SHIELD WHEN FACING HEAVY POKE MATCHUPS THAT WE CANT TRADE LEVEL 1

•CORRUPTING WHEN PLAYING WITH WARP TONIC (INSPIRATION TREE)

DONT FORGET YOUR BOOTS!

•WHEN FACING AUTOATTACK-BASED CHAMPS

•WHEN FACING AP CHAMPS + A LOT OF CCs

•WHEN GOING FOR NO CDR ITEMS

S12 BEST BUILDS

•BOTRK+JAK'SHO BALANCE

•GR8 OVERALL

•2.5S Q RESET - FULL CDR

•ALL-PURPOSE - CONSISTENT OVERALL - SWAP WITS / DD'S ORDER DEPENDING ON WHO DEALS THE MOST DAMAGE IN THE ENEMY TEAM , ALSO GOING CONDITIONING WHILE RUNNING THIS BUILD IS IDEAL!

•BOTRK+SUNDERER VERY VERSATILE AND BUILDABLE IN EVERY SITUATION, INSANE SNOWBALL POTENTIAL AND TANKINESS

•BOTRK+SHIELDBOW FULL ON-HIT [HIGHEST DPS BUILD]

•BOTRK+SHIELDBOW (MR ADAPTATION) WHEN FACING A LOT OF AP-BASED CHAMPS

•BOTRK+GARGOYLE NECESSARY WHEN YOU DONT HAVE FRONTLINE AND YOU ARE THE ONLY WAY TO ENGAGE A TEAMFIGHT (CLOSE IT WITH ANY TANK ITEM YOU NEED BASED ON ENEMY COMP) RECCOMEND PLAYING WITH CONDITIONING!

•BOTRK+HEARTHSTEEL TANKY SCALING

UTILITY / SUTIATIONAL KEY ITEMS

•VS TARGET CCs / SUPPRESS

•ANTI-HEALING OPTIONS

•TANK/ARMOR SHREDDER

•VS HEAVY-BURST AP DAMAGE [DONT BUY IT IF YOU HAVE SHIELDBOW]

•LAST TEAMFIGHT OPTION

Ability Order W-Max 11.14 CHANGES

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Irelia Passive Ability

Threats & Synergies

Threats

Synergies

Extreme Major Even Minor Tiny

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None Low Ok Strong Ideal

Extreme Threats

Ideal Synergies

Akali

Extreme

*MATCHUP THREAT LEVEL IS NOT RELEVANT THEY ARE ALL RANKED 5 FOR PRACTICALITY* Hard only after 6. In the recent patches Akali's early-game has been heavily nerfed. She isnt a lane-bully anymore. We can easily win lane before level 6. Make sure to get as much advantage as you can pre-6 in order to be able to duel her in the lv6 spike.

Alistar

Ideal

TEAMFIGHT SETUPS AND FRONTLINE

Synergies

Ideal Strong Ok Low None

Alistar

Ideal

TEAMFIGHT SETUPS AND FRONTLINE

Champion Build Guide

Heeeey, welcome to my " IRELIA MIDLANE GUIDE". Im an Italian Master main and as second pick I usually play midlane.
I started playing in middle Season9 and peaked Diamond I in early Season10.
I know it sounds weird but, hold on, it wasnt my first experience on MOBA games.
I played DOTA 2 for years! So when switching to League of Legends I was still in my environment.
As I said , I come from Dota2, and in Dota details and game knowledge is a MUST.
That's why I decided to make a guide, I really like to speculate on the game details and share with you guys my experiences and knowledge.
I really hope this guide will help you out and answer some of the questions that playing in the midlane raised in your minds.

So, with all that being said, hope you enjoyed the guide, I will do my best to keep it updated and make sure noone will be missing out on new builds and playstyles.

Here's my stream, If you are interested you can pass by and say Hi
I stream almost every day and you can find me:HERE

Im also trying to make some videos im posting a lot of MATCHUP-GUIDES go check them out if you want , for now I edit them myself, you can find the channel:HERE

PROS

• Insanely good at farming, easy to get high CS/m
• Strong Early/Mid-game
• Good mobility on waves
• High mechanical skill-roof
• Rewarding when played correctly
• Double role flexibility Mid-Toplane

CONS

• Very hard to master mechanically
• Falls off Late-game
• Sensible to Crowd Controls
• Low Mobility without waves
• Low-Skillshot Accuracy gets punished
• Hard to Itemize due to the many options

BEST META KEY-STONES

Conqueror
resemlbes the "standard" keystone for and provides both sustained damage and healing, allowing us to be consistently strong from the early-game until the late stages of the game! It has also an insane synergy with 's overall kit, since she is an insane bruiser and can easily stack it in teamfights with her spiking up her damage and sustain! I really advise to 's new approachers to just stick with and learn first the damage-out put and champion limits with it before switching to other keystones!

Lethal Tempo
In season 12 the has been reworked and is now a great option on bruisers that play around auto-attacks like . will grant us bonus attack speed and at full stacks also bonus attack range. It synergizes well with since her kit evolves also around auto-attacks, also the bonus range feels very nice on her since she has already a huge base attack-range by herself, so adding it up makes the effect even stronger! The biggest downside in my opinion is that in laning-phase we will lack a lot of damage compared to or , but it scales better for mid/late-game scenarios!

Press The Attack
is also another insane keystone for , is not very common but utilized in the right situations can be game changing! I often utilize it while playing against squishy but high-damage comps so my goal in that game is to delete everyone on my sight as fast as possible before they can burst me down. This is where becomes insanely strong! Be aware of avoiding this keystone if laning against tanky champions, while instead its perfect to face for example champions like , , ...I also reccomed going for as mythic while playing with this keystone as its the highest burst-output mythic that can build!

•ITEMIZATION
Itemization on is very important, more important than most of the champions that have pretty standard builds. As we have infact a lot of options regarding mythics and core items! Its very important to have an overall knowledge of what we need in order to be the strongest player on the map every game and have the tools to solocarry games.

•BEST FIRST ITEMS

•Blade Of The Ruined King
Usually is the most common and valuable first item
Rushing allows us to have an insane spike when we close the item and also it's built with wich gives us insane sustain early levels and solo-kill potential.

•Goredrinker
Another good first item is also the .
I usually go in harder matchups, where the enemy midlaner has a lot of damage early-game and could easily kill us like , , , . Rushing in these scenarios will make sure we will be almost unkillable by giving up a bit of sustain but gaining A LOT OF HPS!. Also with rush if we get ahead even 2v1 will be way easy to pull-off due to the AOE Healing as Active of the Mythic and the high Hps it gives us. Will be harder for the enemies to brust you down in a 2v1 scenario. Hypotetically speaking rush if played correctly is stronger than in the correct situations of course!

•MYTHIC SELECTION

•Goredrinker
is strong as usual, a very consistent Mythic item that can be rushed as second item. is insanely strong due both to the passive and active part of the item. The passive gives us cooldown reduction, wich is huge on and also Omnivamp, wich is also an insanely good stat for the champion's kit. The active part of the item instead, is very strong while facing meele champions due to it's range, this is why is insanely good while facing a lot of meele champions, giving us an easier angle to proc our item's active ability. The active is an AOE-Circle slice, that will heal us based on how many champion's we've hitted and will also deal damage.

•Jak'Sho, The Protean
is a very consistent option, since it will give us both ARMOR and MAGIC-RESIST. This will allow Jak'Sho to be conssitent overall, in almost any situation. The mythic passive is insanely strong, and works good with champions like Irelia, that can prolongue fights, with disengaging and sustaining on targets allowing the users to easily stack the item's passive getting the best out of it!

•Immortal Shieldbow
as last but not least is a great option when hard snowballing and is usually the option when we wanna go for the highest DPS build on . Its important to avoid going Shieldbow when facing AD-Assasins that can build and easily counter our shield.While going its important to build ON-HIT EFFECTS ITEMS in order to maximize our DAMAGE OUTPUT , as second items I really like to go --> maximizing my DPS as much as I can.Trust me you will be impressed by how much damage can deal with this build. Also while going for this build its important to go for since we are not building any core item that gives us CDR. Of course if they have a lot of CCs and we really cant overcome them is a must in any case.

•11.14 CHANGES

's will now block both AP and AD incoming damage and will deal more damage when released at full charge , It's now an option to go for W-Max , so we will leave and to level 1 and max out our .

animation is longer and slower , doesnt really affect much the gameplay
cannot be casted while stunned or during anymore
and will have the same cast speed in any angle we will throw it
is now 4 stacks instead of 5 , will be easier to stack up but it's a bit weaker early game
's base stats are lowered , but health grow scales better , will be tankier later in the game
has now a passive that lower's 's cooldown by 0.5/1.5/2.5 based on ranking before the CDR.
I will now test the champion out properly and tell you guys how it feels.
From the stats only feels like she will be stronger mid/early-late game, wich will be great since 's biggest weakness is the late-phases of the games where she becomes very weak.
Lets see how it goes! As always let me know if you find new builds I'll be glad to test them out and talk about it in the comments!

ALL THE COMBOS IN THE TIPS N TRICKS ARE STILL VIABLE BESIDE THE THAT WILL NOW HAVE THE SAME CAST-SPEED AT ANY ANGLE!

GENERAL TIPS

•WAVE MANAGEMENT
Irelia is a really strong midlaner in the right situations, in many matchups you will have full control of the lane-state and the waves. This is why we need to abuse as much as we can our strenght and not push the lane for no reason unless you have to give priority to your jungler or bounce the wave. Wave can be "bounced" by slowpushing the first wave and then hard-shoving the second wave under enemy tower, this will allow the waves to fix close to our turret and give two options to the enemy midlaner , 1- walk up and die 2- call jungler and fix the wave. Nevertheless pulling up FREEZES after the second wave lets us avoid getting ganked and deny a lot of resources from enemy midlaner. Also Irelia is easily gankable since we have to go all-in in order to do anything due to the nature of the champion we are playing, so in the right situations FREEZING THE WAVE is crucial. Freezing is also important for pulling-off solokills since Irelia needs a lot of "space" in the lane to properly deal damage.

•LEVEL 1 START
As we already said, Irelia is crazy strong in the midlane against certain matchups.
At level 1 we can pressure the enemy midlaner by using our on a minion that can be executed and AUTOING the enemy midlaner that is going for a last-hit.
This kind of pressure can open up scenarios where we can have FULL-STACKS of and we can OUTLANE the enemy midlaner at level 1 or even solokill him! (works best with CORRUPTING+WARP TONIC due to the bonus movement speed when you drink a potion allowing you to chase down at level 1)

•LEVEL 1 START
Irelia is crazy strong midlane but not in every matchup. For example, if you have a Darius mid, how do you cs? This is where E helps us. Instead of going START we can go START and lasthit a few minions with our while also being able to stop Darius or any other level 1 hard matchup from
running us down!

•AUTO + + AUTO
Irelia's works as an AUTO-RESET , remeber to AUTO before every Q to maximize our DPS.

• BASIC TRICKS

•+
You can buffer your and after the cast animation, is the most common and practical combo when you have to join teamfights.

•++
As we already said you can buffer your
You can combine that combo adding the first behind you and then going in. You will find yourself in the middle of the fight with the champions you hitted with your marked and the 2nd ready to go to reset the marks. When doing this combo you wanna make sure you take the marks out before using your 2nd to ensure the highest damage-output possible!

•+ gapclose++
This combo will alow you to make easy picks on the map.
Works best in side-lanes where someone will be there to take the farm. Make sure you throw your first when you are out of vison.
Leave your first behind and use your to gapclose in rage to land your second . Its important to reset your while gaplosing with it if possilbe. The combo could work also without resetting your on the gapclose but It could be a bit more risky to take a pick having your on cooldown.

LANING-PHASE BASICS

•DO NOT PUSH LEVEL 1 CARELESSLY:
Having the control of the lane its important, pushing for no reason level 1 will eventually lead to the lack of kill-potential early levels since needs a good amount of "space" in the lane to pull-off solokills

•ABUSE YOUR CHAMPION'S STRENGHT:
's best positive side in my opinion is the advantage she has in the most matchups in the midlane.
This is why I usually like to play her mid in the 11.21 patch
So, Its important to know your champion's limits and not always but most of the times look for solo-kills opportunities.
Taking early lead is foundamental on this champion in order to snowball and take over the game

•LEVEL 6 DIVING AND DAMAGE OUT-PUT KNOWLEDGE:
As we already said has a high mechanical roof and its very rewarding getting as close as possible to the "roof".
With good mechanics and damage-output knowledge we can easily pull-off good towerdives if we are ahead and able to do so of course.
What im trying to say is that I found worth it diving the enemy lander while making him lose a huge wave, keeping the level advantage I gained trough out the laning-phase and then later taking over completely the lane.

•MOBILITY AWARENESS:
's is an insane ability, we can all agree with that and the mechanic that allows you to reset it when executing an enemy target with is very important.
With "Mobility Awareness" Im talking about the ability to "set-up" minions for the reset while fighting near an enemy wave.
Setting up minions can be done with basics attacks or most commonly with will open up out-play opportunities letting us dash trough minions to dodge spells or reposition our selves

TEAMFIGHT BASICS

•WHEN TO ENGAGE:
Unless we are running a "tanky" build, engaging first is not always the best option on .
For example if the enemy team has , or any other hard-ccs, unless we are going for some sustain and health based build is not that tanky, sometimes while learning I found myself forcing a lot of fights with + and constantly dying before casing a single reset.
So I just tought that reminding you this could help you out!

•BE AWARE OF THE CROWD CONTROLS:
As we already said, Crowd Controls are 's Kryptonite.
This is why I want you guys to focus on the enemy composition and "think forward", analyzing what kind of Crowd Controls they have and keeping them in mind will allow you to react faster to them!

•CAREFULL AT YOUR !:
Resetting your is foundamental in order to use 's full potential.
Remember that if you get stunned while dashing with on a Marked enemy or executable minion
your WILL NOT RESET.
This could easily shut you down while teamfighting

•TARGET SHIFTING/PRIORITY TATGETING:
Target shifting is pretty important while teamfighting as since we have enough damage to completely annihilate enemy squishy targets.
Target shifting comes in handy when having to play teamfights "Front to Back".
The best way to do it in my opinion is to Mark the enemy frontline with but before doing that placing the first behind you, then proceed to approach the fight resetting your on the frontliners marked, at that point the high-dps/priority targets will start focusing you and that's the time to pull out your second on them.
The second if done correctly will probably arrive from two screens away so the targets will not have enough time to react to it.
Once we have stunned and market the priority target our work should be done!

THANKS FOR PASSING BY, I REALLY HOPE YOU WILL FIND THIS GUIDE USEFULL

LET ME KNOW IN THE COMMENTS WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT IT AND IF YOU HAVE ANY BUILD SUGGESTION!

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