i realy like this build i joined to mobafire to vote this up. at least i found a good point of view to irelia . thx buddy.

I discuss a little of this in the items boots section. The changes to Irelia are so new and I have been experimenting with some items. The only other pair of boots I would strongly consider are Berserker's Greaves or CDR boots. The Berserker's Greaves are quite powerful with the alternative runes I suggest but you lose a lot of survivability. As far as HP goes I feel this is the biggest weakness of the build. She is so squishy in mid game. I've thought about adding Rylai's Crystal Specter but I don't think the slow is going to proc on her Q W or R which makes it kind of useless. I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to add or how I'm going to adjust for this weakness.

I'm glad you like it and thanks for the positive feed back!

+1!
absolutely amazing, finally someone who made an original and crative build for irelia POST PATCH!
I was looking for some nice build for her for ages, i think this is great, since she is a hybrid now for AP/AD, she shall be built just like jax or poppy :) Done listen to ppl who dont even know the patch notes for champions ,this is by far the best build for irelia AT THE MOMENT:) btw i got only 1 objection. Do you think that mercury threds are best for her since her passive is already anti-cc ? i still dont know if I should use ninja tabi + dodge runes or Boots of swiftness, what do you suggest mate?
EDIT : mercury threads are probably best, but what do you buy for more HP? 1600 hp in mid game aint much, i think she needs like 2500 at least. + Some attack speed would be nice, gunsoo takes time to stuck, when no mobs are around.

I have discussed that in the introduction with the change to her ulti being based on AP and AD it is now more viable so I thought I would provide a new guide. I think you rated down prematurely because you didn't see the recent patch. With this new build you can boost all your abilities quite well instead of just focusing on her autoattacks Q and W. Now you can mash Q W E and R to do tons of burst. I feel this is definitely the best way to build Irelia as a hard carry now but the tanky build I mentioned by Chaox is probably still stronger in most games because of it's utility.

Why you would build Irelia AP/AD I don't know. She needs the survivability from tanky items, and she is much more reliant on her autoattacks+Q+W than on AP, all of which stack with AD/AS rather than AP. This just doesn't make much sense to me at all.

Ya this is a rough draft in progress. I'll be making updates to it in the next few days. Just threw this together real fast so people had and idea on what direction to go. Thanks for your vote and comment! Much appreciated.

AP - for trolling, the other 2 builds for more serious games.

Though your guide is very lacking, and you should add a real build order :)