4 years ago
A humble Irelia main's guide
Hi,
In this guide I will be covering Irelia the blade dancer as she is one of my favorite champ out of all of the 148, and I can say I have learned her well. I hope that everyone can learn something new from this article, so if you are interested in her I recommend you read this article.
-Items
Her core items are: Blade of the Ruined King, Trinity force, Sterak's Gage and Titanic Hydra.
Blade of the Ruined King is for split pushing on Irelia, Trinity force is for team fighting, Sterak's Gage is for team fighting as well and Titanic is for split pushing. For boots you can decide what to build based on the enemy team, but it's usually one of these two: Ninja Tabi or Mercury's treads. For other items you can build: Spirit visage, Guardian angel, Wit's end, Black cleaver and Mortal reminder.
-Runes
For runes you want to take Conqueror so you can teamfight better with the sustain it gives you and it's better in drawn out fights in the laning phase.
For your primary rune tree you want to take:
-Triumph: a standard rune for fighters like Irelia as the sustain you get can often turn fights in your favor. As Irelia does a lot of diving in and out of fights, often times if you go in, get low health, and then get out and your team finishes low health enemies, you can go right back in.
-Legend Bloodline: Irelia has a pretty strong early game, and has amazing outplay potential in the correct hands, but her late game isn't the best out there, this is why Legend Bloodline is my favorable choice. But if you don't feel like you can get kills early you can always take Legend Alacrity for early pressure. In short Legend Alacrity is for for reliably snowballing while Legend Bloodline is for late game scaling and making your leads bigger.
-Coup de Grace:Coup de Grace is a perfect rune for a fighter like Irelia because it allows you to finish fights strongly. A key factor with team fighting as Irelia is that one of the best things you can do is finish