Who is Wickd?
Wickd is a pro player who plays top lane for CLG.eu. He is very famous for his
Irelia play. Recently on his stream, he's been playing and building
Irelia differently than usual. Recently at MLG Dallas, Wickd used his non-standard build in a game against Team Solomid. Some might be interested in it since he used it in a tournament game.
How is this different from normal
Irelia builds?
Normally,
Irelia players build
Doran's Blades,
Trinity Force,
Mercury's Treads or
Ninja Tabi,
Guardian Angel, then other tanky items. Since you're autoattacking while using
Hiten Style and you get
Trinity Force procs, she does quite a bit of physical damage. With this on-hit/aspd build, your early items are
Ionic Spark,
Wit's End and
Berserker's Greaves. You can still build tankier later and get a
Trinity Force if you're fed or farmed enough, but the focus is on attack speed and on-hit.
Why does this build work?
Champions who face
Irelia in lane will typically build items like
Ninja Tabi,
Heart of Gold,
Phage, or
Wriggle's Lantern. Because enemy laners focus on armor and health for laning against
Irelia, they won't be rushing any magic resistance items, and that's where this build shines.
Ionic Spark and
Wit's End both do magic damage. With
Hiten Style,
Ionic Spark (and later
Wit's End), and autoattacks,
Irelia will be doing three types of damage while chunking people insanely fast with
Hiten Style.
Runes
Greater Mark of Attack Speed: Self-explanatory for this build.
Greater Seal of Armor: More survivability.
Greater Glyph of Magic Resist or
Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist: More survivability.
Greater Quintessence of Attack Damage or whatever: In the event your laning phase goes poorly, AD quints help you last hit under your tower with
Bladesurge (among other things). Can really use whatever though.
Masteries
Whatever you normally use on
Irelia. You need 9 in offense for
Alacrity
and
Weapon Expertise
though.
Items
Starting:
Early:
->
+
->
->
or
Replacements:
or
5th/6th:
zeke's herald
Trinity Force vs
Frozen Mallet:
Trinity Force is a very mid game-ish item, and you already spent 4k gold on your on-hit/aspd items. If you have good farm or you're incredibly fed, upgrade the
Phage into
Trinity Force. If you're not, upgrade it into a
Frozen Mallet instead.
Ionic Spark vs
Wit's End: Imo, the flat health is more useful than magic res in lane. When laning against a magic champ, you could pick up a
Null-Magic Mantle and hang onto it instead of building
Wit's End first.
There's a thread about this on the NA forums.
nice to see a blog that opens discussion for once.
This could almost be a build!
It is a build, just not a guide.
Thanks for this astrolia, it's concisely written and helpful. Also looks pretty fun. I'll have to try it eventually, when I actually get around to buying irelia. :/