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Hey everyone!
It's been a very long time since i made a guide, and the guide's i have is long due an update.
So most of my builds are archived as it stand's now!
I got back into playing LoL just recently, and when i got back, i gotta say, i was truly shattered at all the changes that have been made to all the champs i played before.
But, i didn't wanna let that discourage me.
I played for hours and hours, for several days, with diffrent champions that i wanted to get better with.
It was looking grim for some time, when i suddenly remembered a champion.



Irelia - THE WILL OF THE BLADES

This was the champion i played nonstop when she first hit the scene, and i remembered how much i loved her, her abilities, her raw damage output, her looks(they are pretty good), she also wield's blades, hovering blades even, whats there not to like?
But the problem was pretty apparent, i had no clue what i gave myself into.
It became so obvious after the first three games, i really had no clue about how i should build her properly, since the meta has changed so much, the items have changed, the tweaks to peoples abilities, so on and so fourth.
So i was left but with one choice to do!
I needed to read up on her, as i had so many questions, but i stood there with no answers!




List of know-how's in this guide include:

• General Info Chapter About Irelia as a Champion(none advanced)
• Pros/Cons
• Masteries
• Runes
• Items
• Skill Sequence
• Summoner Spells
• Farming
• Summary

• Legend

  (for any abbreviations you don't understand)

Huge Thanks Goes To:

• jhoijhoi: For his how to make a guide, and for the fantastic separators, and general knowledge on coding and everything. Please look op his name and read the guide he has made.
  Please read it, it's truly a work of art: How to make a Proper Guide
• SirSpankAlot: For alot of great ideas on how to make a guide look more complete, colorfull and well informative. Please look up his guide for skarner, my favourite jungler: Skarner Jungle Guide By SirSpankAlot
• Potatisfarfar: For some great support and ideas and demands he wanted of my guides. I have great respect for his opinions in guide makeing as he has been arround for along time and knows the general requirements, in which i need to follow!
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• My Little Pony: For the Gif's and general Color Layout suggestions.

Here is a salute for everyone who supported my guides:

These are the questions i had:

• What is her role?
• What is her main objective; early to lategame?
• What is her team-playing contribution like?
• What is her Strength's and Weaknesses?

These are the answers i was given:

• Role explained:

• Main objective explained:

• Team contribution explained:

• Strengths and weaknesses explained

Pros SPACE [+]Super strong solo champion [+]Very durable overall champion [+]Very high defense against CC's [+]Does not need alot of items to deal Dmg [+]Is more or less unkillable lategame [+]She is a sexy beast

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Cons [-]Lacks the dmg many other champs have [-]Lack of CC's, only a slow [-]Hard to play properly for new players :( [-]Struggles against kiters, Nidalee, Ashe, Kennen etc.

Explaination of the masteries below:
I take the Defensive route with her because it gives her amazing substainability throughout the whole game, she gets some extra offensive damage, that she truly needs, and the defensive tree offers alot of mitigation, both early, mid and late game.
And with the hp/reg she gets through the masteries, plus the runes, she is super beefy even early game, i believe ive said this alot, but its true.



Offensive Masteries:

• Summoner's Wrath Improved Ghost and Exhaust
• Brute Force +3 Atk dmg to increase over damage
• Alacrity +6% Atk speed to makes her auto atk's faster(more dps)
• Weapon Expertise +10% Arp increases all physical dmg done

Defensive Masteries:

• Resistance +6 MR Adds to her survivability against ap abilities in general
• Hardiness +6 Armor Reduces all physical dmg taken
• Durability Increases her maximum health pool per level, upto 108hp at lvl.18
• Vigor +3 hp reg pr 5.seconds, that and quints will grant you alot of hp reg, which is needed to be good and substainable
• Veteran's Scars +30hp Increases her max health pool, adds to sustainability
• Enlightenment Cooldown reduction pr. lvl, reducing the time inbetween ability usage
• Honorguard Reduces over dmg taken by 1.5% which doesn't sound like much but it truly is more than it looks like.
• Juggernaut Increase MAX health by 3%, and reduce incomming disables with 10%, that is just insane right? and then you have her passive ontop of, than mercurys treads.
  That just increases ur beefynees to an inhuman state, makeing u very durable and hard to hold down for a long period of time

Ionian Fervor Reduzes general immobilizes by 10%, 25% and 40% respectively, depending if there are 1, 2 or 3 champions nearby.
This is a HUGE reduction on slows, taunt, fear and everything you get thrown at you, imagine all this with mercrurys threads on you, and the masteries from defensive.
This is so much reduction people will resist blowing anything on you to immobalize you, as it will only be a waste of cooldowns.
This is by far one of my favourite passives in the game.



Bladesurge Irelia dashes forward, dealing a set amount of damage pr. rank +1 per atk damage she has, if you kill something with this ability, the cooldown also refreshes, and refuns you 35mana.
This can be used in any number of ways, depending on how you see it fit.
But it has alot of usage posibilities.

• Last hitting minions, or champions?(which might be looked upon as rude for a carry)
• Gap Closer to reach a champ trying to escape, or to get away if you have the ability to
• Initiate fights, because it is your job

Hiten Style Passively this gives you health regen on auto attacks, and on activation, this will give Irelia's auto attacks deal upto 75 true dmg for 6 seconds, which doesnt seem high, but it actually is quite the disturbing amount
of dmg increase. This is what makes you durable in lane aswell, passive health regen, and true dmg is what makes you scary to 1v1 during laneing phase or any part of the game.



Equilibrium Strike Irelia's attack balances the scales, dealing 280 (+50% of ability power) damage at max rank, and slowing the target by 60% for 2 seconds. However, if the target has a higher Health % than Irelia, then the blow stuns the target for 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 / 2 seconds instead.
That is an immensely strong stun, or slow, exceptionally good for teamfights, 1v1's and everything you come up against, and can win you a fight even if you are at a low lvl.
The overall usage of this is to many to name them all, but use it as you see fit for the occation.



Transcendent Blades Irelia summons 4 spirit blades which she can fling at her enemies. These blades deal 160 (+0.6 per bonus Attack Damage AND +0.5 per bonus Ability Power) physical damage to enemies that they pass through, and she heals for 25% of that damage vs champions and 10% vs minions.
That is ALOT of healing during lategame and in teamfights, and even during laneing phases.
The usage for this, as it has so low a cooldown is many, you can use it to force your enemy laning player to stick by his turrets as you can kill an entire creepwave with this in a matter of seconds, as with Equilibrium strike, you should use this as you see fit, and when needed.

Greater Mark of DesolationGreater Mark of Desolation This type of Mark increases your overall damage percentage on auto attacks towards a target, that beeing minion or enemy player. The way ARP works, is that it makes your attacks ignore the amount of armor as you have in armor penetration.
Which all in all is to good to not use on irelia.



Greater Seal of Resilience
This adds armor to your own defense, makeing you more beefy and durable.
It doesn't seem like its that much armor with only 9 runes, but you are buying a cloth armor aswell, and all of this adds upto a grand total of: 55Armor at lvl.1
And that good sir, is ALOT of mitigation, which will only become that much stronger as you level up.



Greater Glyph of Shielding MR makes you overall more resistant to caster atk's, and anything that deals ap dmg.
This makes you less of a target aswell, meaning that caster's will have to invest in getting less high caliber item's like , and rather get a to increase their overall damage, and this sort of evens out the odds for your team. So MR is a very needed stat for irelia as an initator, without it, you will simply explode in teamfights. And the reason why i dont get flat Magic resist, instead of per level, is because i lean more towards a lategame ending rather than a midgame one.



Greater Quintessence of VigorGreater Quintessence of Vigor Flat health regen, these are focused at your overall staying power in teamfights, it increases the time in which you can lane against someone, and it's simply put an amazing stat overall for any tank. For that increased health regen if you like that you can go for a Philo Stone early game, to increase mana reg, health and and give you a cute little gold per 5 seconds.
Personally i never use it on irelia as i never get any trouble as it is, and i still manage to stay long enough in lane to get my wriggle's, in which that alone makes you unstoppable in lane.



Overall Stat increase:

• 15 Armor Penetration
• 24 Magic Resist at lvl 18
• 55 Armor at level 1
• 16 Health Regen at level 1

Exhaust: Good disable, that has alot of usage. And can make or break teamfights, if used correctly

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Ghost: Increases your movement speed for a set amount of time, and grants the user somethign called unit walking. (makes you pass through minons/players, rather than collide)

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Teleport: This is a viable summoner spell, as it helps you get arround easier on the map, and makes you able to help out in teamfights earlier.

-Ontop of what is written, you get both improved by a single Talent point in the mastery tree.

The CORE of your build:

• For an item that costs 1600Gold This item gives ALOT of positive contribution

• Tier 2 boots for the price of 1200Gold, increasing ur movement speed by a set amount, but it does have a few other great positives to it.

• This is a 2000Gold item that increases you overall dps by a fair amount, increases sustain witha stacking MR buff that stacks up to 4 times, and it's by far one of the best items ive used on Irelia.

So your Complete CORE build sums up to: 4800Gold
That sounds stupidly low to me, as i remember alot of builds that got items costing 4000Gold Alone. Meaning this Core is more or less 2000Gold Cheaper than alot of other builds out there, leaving room for alot of alternative routes to build Irelia to fit the job you must do.




The Route of your build:

• -Optional- This is a high armor value item that costs 2000Gold and a Unique passive

• -Optional- This is a high magic resist item that costs 2610Gold and a Unique passive for health reg.

• -Optional- This is a defensive item that boosts health and gives you a one spell block wonder, that can and will save your life, at it's cost is 2715Gold makeing it well worth it for the large hp boost and some mana

• -Optional- This is a survival only item, and ill explain it's benefits below. Price for all it does is 2600Gold

• -Questionable- So this is the item most people say is a MUST HAVE item for Irelia, this is completely questionable, depending on how the game goes ofcourse, you can get this baby, but you will to have it in the core build, if you are using this guide ive written, the price for this is4070Gold Putting it on the list of the most expensive items in the game, so lets take a look at what it does

This Section is under construction and will be completed by 27th of November, so please check back later to see the full guide!

This Section is under construction and will be completed by 27th of November, so please check back later to see the full guide!