Tips to play with irelia

[quote=Toshabi][quote=GrandmasterD] [quote=Toshabi] [quote=NicknameMy] [quote=Mowen] 1. Don't pick Irelia if you're vs. Renekton. 2. Build a [[philosopher's stone]] and [[heart of gold]] early. 3. Farm farm farm farm farm farm farm. 4. Join teamfights 40 min in, kill everyone 5. Profit This is literally what successful Irelias do. It is quite boring to farm so much though imo. :) [/quote] Do that vs [[renekton]]'s brother and you lost the game. [[nasus]] outscales [[irelia]]. [/quote] Irelia has way more utility than Nasus, unfortunately, so your statement doesn't hold water. That and Nasus is extremely easy to kite too so yeah... =[ I'm pretty sure it would be true if you were playing as Nasus cause you're probably superly fantastically great with him! :D :D :D :D [/quote] I sense some sarcasm Tosh.. [/quote] What?! No! It's not sarcasm, it's sincerity and praise because he's amazing at the characters he plays as! :D[/quote]

[quote=Somalie][quote=Toshabi]Irelia has way more utility than Nasus ... [/quote] I agree that Irelia is not designed like Nasus and has more mobility which is great for an tanky deeps, but more utility ? For the OP : do not pay attention to score at the end of the game. That does not win game.[/quote]

[quote=Turbo Punz]I've mained [[Irelia]] for a decent amount of time too. Many of the games that I played and carried with [[Irelia]] was due to many factors: 1) Most of the time, I play out my lane passively. I don't really do much in terms of trades. I only do so when it is needed. I mostly focus on #2 2) FARM, FARM AND MORE FARM. I play a passive lane for this. If, I just farm like mad (i.e: 10 cs per minute) I'll soon get a large cs advantage over my counterpart and sometimes a EXP advantage. 3) If you want an gold and EXP boost on your opponent then you'll need to prevent them from getting CS. Stay in the gap between their caster minions and their melee minions. Chances are they wont be able to get cs (therefore less EXP). You will soon develop the advantage. If they are stupid enough to go for cs I will punish them for it. Try to do some damage to them. Repeat. 4) Since you will be pushing relatively hard on their lane it is a MUST that you get ward whenever you are back at the platform... NO EXCEPTIONS. This will keep you from getting camped by the jungler and getting ganked in general. 5) I don't really do damage to their turret unless it is really needed or suitable. I really like to "juice" out that gold and EXP advantage. My end build usually looks like this (I know, it looks kinda 'iffy but it works for me): [[Mercury's Treads]] [[Trinity Force]] <-- most of the time I get [[Phage]] first and then [[Sheen]] [[Wit's End]] <-- amazing item which synergies with [[Hiten Style]] [[Frozen Mallet]] <-- Slow, HP... pretty nice item on her. Also works well with [[Hiten Style]]. I also like it better then getting [[Warmog's Armor]]. [[Youmuu's Ghostblade]] <-- Gives a couple stats that are useful on [[Irelia]] [[Shurelya's Reverie]] <-- My starter is [[Regrowth Pendant]] which is soon build into [[Philosopher's Stone]]. The HP regen can also be in place of [[Warmog's Armor]]. Note: [[Ionian Fervor]] TOOO STRONGGG[/quote]

[quote=EvilDice]irelia does fine against renekton go tabi and chainvest and the lane is over[/quote]

[quote=koksei][quote=Turbo Punz] I've mained [[Irelia]] for a decent amount of time too. Many of the games that I played and carried with [[Irelia]] was due to many factors: 1) Most of the time, I play out my lane passively. I don't really do much in terms of trades. I only do so when it is needed. I mostly focus on #2 2) FARM, FARM AND MORE FARM. I play a passive lane for this. If, I just farm like mad (i.e: 10 cs per minute) I'll soon get a large cs advantage over my counterpart and sometimes a EXP advantage. 3) If you want an gold and EXP boost on your opponent then you'll need to prevent them from getting CS. Stay in the gap between their caster minions and their melee minions. Chances are they wont be able to get cs (therefore less EXP). You will soon develop the advantage. If they are stupid enough to go for cs I will punish them for it. Try to do some damage to them. Repeat. 4) Since you will be pushing relatively hard on their lane it is a MUST that you get ward whenever you are back at the platform... NO EXCEPTIONS. This will keep you from getting camped by the jungler and getting ganked in general. 5) I don't really do damage to their turret unless it is really needed or suitable. I really like to "juice" out that gold and EXP advantage. My end build usually looks like this (I know, it looks kinda 'iffy but it works for me): [[Mercury's Treads]] [[Trinity Force]] <-- most of the time I get [[Phage]] first and then [[Sheen]] [[Wit's End]] <-- amazing item which synergies with [[Hiten Style]] [[Frozen Mallet]] <-- Slow, HP... pretty nice item on her. Also works well with [[Hiten Style]]. I also like it better then getting [[Warmog's Armor]]. [[Youmuu's Ghostblade]] <-- Gives a couple stats that are useful on [[Irelia]] [[Shurelya's Reverie]] <-- My starter is [[Regrowth Pendant]] which is soon build into [[Philosopher's Stone]]. The HP regen can also be in place of [[Warmog's Armor]]. Note: [[Ionian Fervor]] TOOO STRONGGG [/quote] Tri + Frozen sucha waste[/quote]

[quote=Durzapt]I kind like more irelia with an off-tank build!![/quote]

[quote=Mazuran][quote=koksei] Tri + Frozen sucha waste [/quote] QFT. But if it works for you... Hey, go for it. Pay the naysayers no heed! I'm beginning to reconsider whether or not Triforce is really that good an item on Irelia. The main reasons people seem to cite using it are: [u]The Phage slow[/u] Is really, really poor until you get some AtkSpd from a Wit's End or somesuch. It just doesn't proc reliably enough for me. However... If you get FroMal you get a reliable slow for chasing. And you get more HP and a smidgen more AD to boot (not that you should ever get FroMal for the AD...). Oh, and you'll benefit more if you get an Atma's. So... One for the anti-TriForce brigade. [u]The Sheen Proc[/u] Is useful for bladesurging to minions and last hitting. That's about it. End game, it's adding on around 115 extra damage, which will of course be reduced to around the 70-80 mark after rresistances (Bullshit figures, I know, but I think they're roughly right...). Which is a bit crap, really. So... another reason to not get TriForce. [u]The utility[/u] There is no denying that TriForce brings a lot of very useful stats in one item slot. However... They're all rather meh. So I'm putting this down as a reason to get TriForce, but against my best instincts :P At the moment I'm tossing around a build along the lines of Boots FroMal Wit's End Randuin's Atma's GA /Off-Topic Diversion Also, this: [quote] For the OP : do not pay attention to score at the end of the game. That does not win game. [/quote] Cannot stress this enough. Turrets win the game more than kills, dragons, barons, etc. If people complain at you for going negative score, just make sure you knock down more turrets than them :P[/quote]

[quote=EvilDice]you should really build irelia in accordance with the game and the enemy team. go triforce GA. that's pretty standard. getting there isn't. you can buy a doran's shield (you can even buy more than one), you can rush a chainvest, but those two items are core. after that the builds get pretty situational. there are loads of tank items that are good on irelia. it really depends on the game. FH, Randuin, Shurelya, Mog's, Wits, Maw, Banshee, FoN all good choices on irelia.[/quote]

[quote=Embracing]Renek does well early Irelia kinda catches up later :P And yes what evildice said[/quote]

[quote=NicknameMy][[nasus]] has great utility. He can take out the enemy ad-carry from the fight forever with his [[wither]], not many champs can do something like that. And at lategame, he has 5 times the dmg of [[irelia]] with 1 Q, if [[irelia]] goes into farm mode top. And then, he is even more tanky than [[irelia]].[/quote]