This build guide for Irelia is for top lane and is by Crs Angush,considered one of the best top lane players in the game. Irelia is an extremely powerful top lane pick. She's mobile, tanky, has strong resistance to crowd control, and can deal true damage as well.
Active: Irelia's basic attacks deal 15/30/45/60/75 true damage and doubles health restored for 6 seconds.
Cost
40 Mana
Range
0
Cooldown
15.0000 Seconds
Hiten Style
Passive: Basic attacks restore 5 health.
Active: Irelia's basic attacks deal 15 true damage and doubles health restored for 6 seconds.
Hiten Style
Passive: Basic attacks restore 7 health.
Active: Irelia's basic attacks deal 30 true damage and doubles health restored for 6 seconds.
Hiten Style
Passive: Basic attacks restore 9 health.
Active: Irelia's basic attacks deal 45 true damage and doubles health restored for 6 seconds.
Hiten Style
Passive: Basic attacks restore 11 health.
Active: Irelia's basic attacks deal 60 true damage and doubles health restored for 6 seconds.
Hiten Style
Passive: Basic attacks restore 13 health.
Active: Irelia's basic attacks deal 75 true damage and doubles health restored for 6 seconds.
Equilibrium Strike
Equilibrium Strike
Irelia pierces her target, dealing 80/130/180/230/280 (+0.5*AP) magic damage and slowing the target by 60% for 1/1.3/1.5/1.8/2 second(s).
If the target has a higher Health % than Irelia, she stuns the target for the duration instead.
Cost
50/55/60/65/70 Mana
Range
0
Cooldown
8/8/8/8/8 Seconds
Equilibrium Strike
Irelia pierces her target, dealing 80 (+0.5*AP) magic damage and slowing the target by 60% for 1 second(s).
If the target has a higher Health % than Irelia, she stuns the target for the duration instead.
Equilibrium Strike
Irelia pierces her target, dealing 130 (+0.5*AP) magic damage and slowing the target by 60% for 1.3 second(s).
If the target has a higher Health % than Irelia, she stuns the target for the duration instead.
Equilibrium Strike
Irelia pierces her target, dealing 180 (+0.5*AP) magic damage and slowing the target by 60% for 1.5 second(s).
If the target has a higher Health % than Irelia, she stuns the target for the duration instead.
Equilibrium Strike
Irelia pierces her target, dealing 230 (+0.5*AP) magic damage and slowing the target by 60% for 1.8 second(s).
If the target has a higher Health % than Irelia, she stuns the target for the duration instead.
Equilibrium Strike
Irelia pierces her target, dealing 280 (+0.5*AP) magic damage and slowing the target by 60% for 2 second(s).
If the target has a higher Health % than Irelia, she stuns the target for the duration instead.
Transcendent Blades
Transcendent Blades
Irelia summons 4 spirit blades that she can fling to deal 80/120/160 (+0.5*AD) (+0.5*AP) physical damage to enemies they pass through. She heals for 25% of the damage dealt against champions and 10% against minions.
Cost
100/100/100 Mana
Range
1000
Cooldown
70/60/50 Seconds
Transcendent Blades
Irelia summons 4 spirit blades that she can fling to deal 80 (+0.5*AD) (+0.5*AP) physical damage to enemies they pass through. She heals for 25% of the damage dealt against champions and 10% against minions.
Transcendent Blades
Irelia summons 4 spirit blades that she can fling to deal 120 (+0.5*AD) (+0.5*AP) physical damage to enemies they pass through. She heals for 25% of the damage dealt against champions and 10% against minions.
Transcendent Blades
Irelia summons 4 spirit blades that she can fling to deal 160 (+0.5*AD) (+0.5*AP) physical damage to enemies they pass through. She heals for 25% of the damage dealt against champions and 10% against minions.
E
Equilibrium Strike
Irelia pierces her target, dealing 80 (+0.5*AP) magic damage and slowing the target by 60% for 1 second(s).
If the target has a higher Health % than Irelia, she stuns the target for the duration instead.
Q
Bladesurge
Irelia dashes forward to strike her target, dealing 20 (+1*AD) physical damage.
If it kills the target, Bladesurge's cooldown refreshes and refunds 35 Mana.
W
Hiten Style
Passive: Basic attacks restore 5 health.
Active: Irelia's basic attacks deal 15 true damage and doubles health restored for 6 seconds.
W
Hiten Style
Passive: Basic attacks restore 7 health.
Active: Irelia's basic attacks deal 30 true damage and doubles health restored for 6 seconds.
W
Hiten Style
Passive: Basic attacks restore 9 health.
Active: Irelia's basic attacks deal 45 true damage and doubles health restored for 6 seconds.
R
Transcendent Blades
Irelia summons 4 spirit blades that she can fling to deal 80 (+0.5*AD) (+0.5*AP) physical damage to enemies they pass through. She heals for 25% of the damage dealt against champions and 10% against minions.
W
Hiten Style
Passive: Basic attacks restore 11 health.
Active: Irelia's basic attacks deal 60 true damage and doubles health restored for 6 seconds.
E
Equilibrium Strike
Irelia pierces her target, dealing 130 (+0.5*AP) magic damage and slowing the target by 60% for 1.3 second(s).
If the target has a higher Health % than Irelia, she stuns the target for the duration instead.
W
Hiten Style
Passive: Basic attacks restore 13 health.
Active: Irelia's basic attacks deal 75 true damage and doubles health restored for 6 seconds.
E
Equilibrium Strike
Irelia pierces her target, dealing 180 (+0.5*AP) magic damage and slowing the target by 60% for 1.5 second(s).
If the target has a higher Health % than Irelia, she stuns the target for the duration instead.
R
Transcendent Blades
Irelia summons 4 spirit blades that she can fling to deal 120 (+0.5*AD) (+0.5*AP) physical damage to enemies they pass through. She heals for 25% of the damage dealt against champions and 10% against minions.
E
Equilibrium Strike
Irelia pierces her target, dealing 230 (+0.5*AP) magic damage and slowing the target by 60% for 1.8 second(s).
If the target has a higher Health % than Irelia, she stuns the target for the duration instead.
E
Equilibrium Strike
Irelia pierces her target, dealing 280 (+0.5*AP) magic damage and slowing the target by 60% for 2 second(s).
If the target has a higher Health % than Irelia, she stuns the target for the duration instead.
Q
Bladesurge
Irelia dashes forward to strike her target, dealing 50 (+1*AD) physical damage.
If it kills the target, Bladesurge's cooldown refreshes and refunds 35 Mana.
Q
Bladesurge
Irelia dashes forward to strike her target, dealing 80 (+1*AD) physical damage.
If it kills the target, Bladesurge's cooldown refreshes and refunds 35 Mana.
R
Transcendent Blades
Irelia summons 4 spirit blades that she can fling to deal 160 (+0.5*AD) (+0.5*AP) physical damage to enemies they pass through. She heals for 25% of the damage dealt against champions and 10% against minions.
Q
Bladesurge
Irelia dashes forward to strike her target, dealing 110 (+1*AD) physical damage.
If it kills the target, Bladesurge's cooldown refreshes and refunds 35 Mana.
Q
Bladesurge
Irelia dashes forward to strike her target, dealing 140 (+1*AD) physical damage.
If it kills the target, Bladesurge's cooldown refreshes and refunds 35 Mana.
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Items
Laning Phase
Start
Boots of Speed
Doran's Blade
Cloth Armor
Health Potion
Core vs AD
Boots of Speed
Phage
Stinger
Core vs AP
Boots of Speed
Phage
Wit's End
Example end-game Build
Berserker's Greaves
Frozen Mallet
Zephyr
Wit's End
Randuin's Omen
Guardian Angel
Situational Items
Atma's Impaler
Thornmail
Runic Bulwark
Maw of Malmortius
Frozen Heart
Ninja Tabi
Pros and Cons
PROS
Relatively safe pick in current top lane meta.
Tanky and mobile bruiser with sustain.
Hard to lock down or cc due to passive.
Can deal true damage, physical damage, and magical damage.
Easy to farm with if not countered.
Extremely versatile with item builds and counter-builds.
Could someone tell me how to build Irelia with Blade of The Ruined King because i think with zephyr and trinity she is too squishy so if someone knows please inform me.
With the arrival of Blade of the ruined king i go Attack damage/armor penetration reds and movement speed Quints. Attack speed runes synergise with maxing E while Armor penetration/AD synergises with maxing Q.
Basically, max Q if your opponent has a lot of different disengages etc. Max E against melee champions.
Dont expect me to answer a lot of these questions since its no longer in my hands.
For maxing order, you always want to take E over Q, it provides increased utility. Also, the reason you dont want to max Q before E is because it scales off AD more than levels and so the only real benefit you gain from leveling Q is a decrease in cooldown, not really as good as the slow/stun increase time and increase of damage on your E . To go really in-depth and work with the build, if you take Frozen Mallet, you slow for 1.5 seconds for 40%, on auto-attack, being able to refresh that 1.5 second slow with your Q every 6 seconds if you max it first. If you max your E first, you slow for 60% (or stun) for 2 seconds while dealing additional damage, every 8 seconds, PLUS the slow off of frozen mallet.
While your E comes off cooldown 2 seconds later than your Q, because of the AD scaling on Q, you do enough damage with it already. You would max E first to get increased damage on your combo and also to get an increase in CC.
Also, you want to take flat AD mainly because it lowers early-game kill time and allows for a higher burst damage through the game. The only time that AS would work is if the enemy team is very tanky and can survive initial burst damage, meaning that you have to put out consistant DPS.
the new BotRK is pretty amazing on her. it gives her everything she needs as well as lifesteal. its a pretty good item to rush when you're ahead in lane as it gives you that ability to stick to your target with the active slow as well as lifesteal for staying in lane longer.
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Posted 4/25/2013 11:48:19 AMnice guide
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Posted 4/17/2013 6:42:34 PMcan't someone make a guide for AP irelia?? I try to play her as AP but I don't really know what to buy.
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Posted 4/18/2013 11:19:47 AMTry ap xin zhao instead, ap irelia wouldn't really work that well.
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Posted 4/8/2013 11:48:20 AMCould someone tell me how to build Irelia with Blade of The Ruined King because i think with zephyr and trinity she is too squishy so if someone knows please inform me.
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Posted 4/9/2013 3:11:10 PMMaybe you can do the Mallet + Zephyr combo except replace Zephyr with BotRK?
I wouldn't know since I'm not high ELO but it kinda makes sense to me since a lot of the stats are similar except CDR and tenacity.
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Posted 5/4/2013 4:14:13 PMMallet + BotRK works great and since you get tenacity from your passive, your not really losing out on much by replacing Zephyr with it imo.
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Posted 4/6/2013 6:08:55 PMWhy don't you have Spirit's Visage as a situational item?
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Posted 3/22/2013 4:40:38 AMCan't someone make an guide for AP irelia. I would really appreciate it. hope someone will think of it.
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Posted 3/9/2013 5:00:32 AMcoz i actually dont think that the trades on toplane are that long that u can benefit from the attack speed runes
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Posted 3/19/2013 5:01:09 PMthe attack speed runes are for the 5 seconds that you get true damage.. so you probably don't want the trades to be longer than that.
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Posted 3/9/2013 4:59:17 AMWhy max E over Q
and arent flat AD runes more viable?
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Posted 3/9/2013 7:33:08 AMI get AD runes for irelia, and E provides more damage than Q and increases stun/slow duration.
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Posted 3/10/2013 7:50:53 PMWith the arrival of Blade of the ruined king i go Attack damage/armor penetration reds and movement speed Quints. Attack speed runes synergise with maxing E while Armor penetration/AD synergises with maxing Q.
Basically, max Q if your opponent has a lot of different disengages etc. Max E against melee champions.
Dont expect me to answer a lot of these questions since its no longer in my hands.
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Posted 3/16/2013 4:26:18 PMFor maxing order, you always want to take E over Q, it provides increased utility. Also, the reason you dont want to max Q before E is because it scales off AD more than levels and so the only real benefit you gain from leveling Q is a decrease in cooldown, not really as good as the slow/stun increase time and increase of damage on your E . To go really in-depth and work with the build, if you take Frozen Mallet, you slow for 1.5 seconds for 40%, on auto-attack, being able to refresh that 1.5 second slow with your Q every 6 seconds if you max it first. If you max your E first, you slow for 60% (or stun) for 2 seconds while dealing additional damage, every 8 seconds, PLUS the slow off of frozen mallet.
While your E comes off cooldown 2 seconds later than your Q, because of the AD scaling on Q, you do enough damage with it already. You would max E first to get increased damage on your combo and also to get an increase in CC.
Also, you want to take flat AD mainly because it lowers early-game kill time and allows for a higher burst damage through the game. The only time that AS would work is if the enemy team is very tanky and can survive initial burst damage, meaning that you have to put out consistant DPS.
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Posted 3/3/2013 6:16:57 PMthe new BotRK is pretty amazing on her. it gives her everything she needs as well as lifesteal. its a pretty good item to rush when you're ahead in lane as it gives you that ability to stick to your target with the active slow as well as lifesteal for staying in lane longer.