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(14.23) Eriosun's Master Tier Complete Irelia Guide - Season 14 [UPDATED]

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Runes: VS BURST

1 2 3

Precision

Conqueror

Presence of Mind

Legend: Alacrity

Last Stand

Resolve

Bone Plating

Overgrowth

Bonus:

+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+65 Base Health

Spells:

1 2 3

FLASH IGNITE

Flash

Ignite

Items

STARTERS

•VS SAFE LANERS

•DORAN'S SWORD +1 POT WHEN PLAYING WITHOUT INSPIRATION

•DORAN SHIELD WHEN FACING HEAVY POKE MATCHUPS THAT WE CANT TRADE LEVEL 1

DONT FORGET YOUR BOOTS!

•WHEN FACING AUTOATTACK-BASED CHAMPS

•WHEN FACING AP CHAMPS + A LOT OF CCs

•WHEN GOING FOR NO CDR ITEMS

S14 BEST BUILDS

•SNOWBALL + DPS

•CONSISTENT FAST SCALING

•VS MOVEMENT SPEED [Ghost,Galeforce,Stormrazor]

UTILITY / SUTIATIONAL KEY ITEMS

•VS TARGET CCs / SUPPRESS

•ANTI-HEALING OPTIONS

•TANK/ARMOR SHREDDER

Ability Order W-Max 11.14 CHANGES

1 2 3

Irelia Passive Ability

Threats & Synergies

Threats

Synergies

Extreme Major Even Minor Tiny

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None Low Ok Strong Ideal

Extreme Threats

Ideal Synergies

Akali

Extreme

*MATCHUP THREAT LEVEL IS NOT RELEVANT THEY ARE ALL RANKED 5 FOR PRACTICALITY* Hard only after 6. In the recent patches Akali's early-game has been heavily nerfed. She isnt a lane-bully anymore. We can easily win lane before level 6. Make sure to get as much advantage as you can pre-6 in order to be able to duel her in the lv6 spike.

Alistar

Ideal

TEAMFIGHT SETUPS AND FRONTLINE

Synergies

Ideal Strong Ok Low None

Alistar

Ideal

TEAMFIGHT SETUPS AND FRONTLINE

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Champion Build Guide

Heeeey, welcome to my " IRELIA MIDLANE GUIDE". Im an Italian Master main and as second pick I usually play midlane.
I started playing in middle Season9 and peaked Diamond I in early Season10.
I know it sounds weird but, hold on, it wasnt my first experience on MOBA games.
I played DOTA 2 for years! So when switching to League of Legends I was still in my environment.
As I said , I come from Dota2, and in Dota details and game knowledge is a MUST.
That's why I decided to make a guide, I really like to speculate on the game details and share with you guys my experiences and knowledge.
I really hope this guide will help you out and answer some of the questions that playing in the midlane raised in your minds.

So, with all that being said, hope you enjoyed the guide, I will do my best to keep it updated and make sure noone will be missing out on new builds and playstyles.

Here's my stream, If you are interested you can pass by and say Hi
I stream almost every day and you can find me:HERE

PROS

🟢 Insanely good at farming
🟢 Strong Early/Mid-game
🟢 Good mobility on waves
🟢 High mechanical skill-roof
🟢 Rewarding when played correctly
🟢 Double role flexibility Mid-Toplane

CONS

🔴 Very hard to master mechanically
🔴 Falls off Late-game
🔴 Sensible to Crowd Controls
🔴 Low Mobility without waves
🔴 Hard to Itemize

𝘾𝙊𝙉𝙌𝙐𝙀𝙍𝙊𝙍
resemlbes the "standard" keystone for and provides both sustained damage and healing, allowing us to be consistently strong from the early-game until the late stages of the game! It has also an insane synergy with 's overall kit, since she is an insane bruiser and can easily stack it in teamfights with her spiking up her damage and sustain! I really advise to 's new approachers to just stick with and learn first the damage-out put and champion limits with it before switching to other keystones!

𝙋𝙍𝙀𝙎𝙎 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝘼𝙏𝙏𝘼𝘾𝙆
is also another insane keystone for , is not very common but utilized in the right situations can be game changing! I often utilize it while playing against squishy but high-damage comps so my goal in that game is to delete everyone on my sight as fast as possible before they can burst me down. This is where becomes insanely strong! Be aware of avoiding this keystone if laning against tanky champions, while instead its perfect to face for example champions like , , ...I also reccomed going for as a core item while playing with this keystone as its the highest burst-output mythic that can build!

𝘽𝙇𝘼𝘿𝙀 𝙊𝙁 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙍𝙐𝙄𝙉𝙀𝘿 𝙆𝙄𝙉𝙂
is and will be (think forever)🤣 the best and only option as first item on . This item gives us all we need early-game to stomp the lane and snowball. Just rush this every game, sooner you close it, faster you scale!

𝙎𝙐𝙉𝘿𝙀𝙍𝙀𝘿 𝙎𝙆𝙔
Is a NEW item and it's THE BEST THING YOU CAN RUSH FOR SECOND ITEM. The passive is just insanely strong both to BURST the target and to SUSTAIN in longer fights, healing you more the less health you have and dealing CRITICAL DAMAGE on your first basic attack. Basically you can onetap squishy targets with Q+AUTO.

𝙏𝙄𝙏𝘼𝙉𝙄𝘾 𝙃𝙔𝘿𝙍𝘼
is now very strong and has an ACTVIE ABILITY wich allows you to deal AOE DAMAGE and also AUTO-RESET. This is now the core item for and has to be present in almost every build. Make sure to utilize the ITEM'S ACTIVE CORRECTLY, for example Q+AUTO+HYDRA PASSIVE(AUTO RESET)+AUTO. This will allow you to utilize the item's 100% potential!

𝙆𝙍𝘼𝙆𝙀𝙉 𝙎𝙇𝘼𝙔𝙀𝙍
insanely good after the changes to the whole item. Base AD plus lots of Attack speed and the very usefull movement speed, on top of all this, has a very good buildpath. The item will enable us to both deal sustained and burst damage, the only flaw is the AD-Damage from the on-hit passive, that gets hard countered by even few Armor stats. Overall insanely good as 2nd item right after

𝙎𝙏𝙍𝙄𝘿𝙀𝘽𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙆𝙀𝙍
Perfect item to rush right after if you are facing a lot of HIGH MOBILITY CHAMPIONS, for example ADCs with Ghost or high mobility in general. The Active of the item doesn't deal damage anymore, but it slows more and also gives you movement speed based on how many champion it hits, wich in teamfights feels really nice to move around and be able to gap-close your targets!

𝙒𝙄𝙏'𝙎 𝙀𝙉𝘿
great option as 2nd item, it's perfect while facing at least 2 AP champions, preferably Mid & Jungle, since we will fight them from the start of the game till the end, but even if the enemy comp doesn't have a lot of AP damage, is still a good option if we are snowballing and we wanna spike up our damage output and also have more TENACITY to deal wtih CCs and STUNS

𝙎𝙏𝙀𝙍𝘼𝙆'𝙎 𝙂𝘼𝙂𝙀
works best as 3rd item, right aftre Mythic, in comps with heavy stun and crowd controls. provides both AD , HP, and a sweet little passive, that allows us to get a Shield and Tenacity once triggered.

𝙀𝙓𝙋𝙀𝙍𝙄𝙈𝙀𝙉𝙏𝘼𝙇 𝙃𝙀𝙓𝙋𝙇𝘼𝙏𝙀
very good if the game looks snowbally and you wanna fight a lot with your team rathen than using your strenght to side-lane. Combine this with Ionian Boots of Lucidity to have insanely low cooldown on your Vanguard's Edge

𝙁𝙍𝙊𝙕𝙀𝙉 𝙃𝙀𝘼𝙍𝙏
is a very consistent and gold efficient option for since she has a lot of mana problems and is likely to get focus in fights, due to her meele nature and all-in champion. Frozen Heart is then very cheap but really usefull when facing a lot of auto-based champions.

𝙍𝘼𝙉𝘿𝙐𝙄𝙉'𝙎 𝙊𝙈𝙀𝙉
is a good option when we are facing A LOT OF AD-DPS CHAMPIONS and we really need the bonus HP. Usually will do the work(Heart and Randuin have same unique passive, you can't buy them togheter), but there are some games, for example when we don't have any engagers/frontline, that we need the bonus HP to engage a fight or tank a bit more for the team.[/b]

𝙁𝙊𝙍𝘾𝙀 𝙊𝙁 𝙉𝘼𝙏𝙐𝙍𝙀
is an insane item when we are facing A LOT OF AP CHAMPIONS THAT DEAL PER-TICK DAMAGE, like champions that build or , since the tick-per-second damage will instanlty stack 's passive to full in matter of seconds, but also just to counter normal AP Damage the item is literally perfect, giving us movement speed, lots of magic resist, and HP.

𝘿𝙀𝘼𝙏𝙃'𝙎 𝘿𝘼𝙉𝘾𝙀
Wanna 1v9? This is the best 4th Item for you! is isanely strong if we are ahead. The passive allows us to HEAL HP BACK after killing an enemy. doesn't have very high AD RATIOS and healing works on that, but combined with the healing really amplifies our 1v9 potential! ALso with the Unique passive IGNORE PAIN - We can mitigate the incoming damage and avoid getting onetapped from both MAGICAL & PHYSICAL DAMAGE.

𝙂𝙐𝘼𝙍𝘿𝙄𝘼𝙉 𝘼𝙉𝙂𝙀𝙇
Is a good option as last item. allows us to take risky engages in the lategame fights, where one mistake decides the outcome of the entire lobby. Make sure to buy it if the game is getting very hard, and you need a little bit of backup.

𝙐𝙏𝙄𝙇𝙄𝙕𝙀 𝙔𝙊𝙐𝙍 𝙎𝙏𝙍𝙀𝙉𝙂𝙃𝙏
is a really strong midlaner in the right situations, in many matchups you will have full control of the lane-state and the waves. This is why we need to abuse as much as we can our strenght and not push the lane for no reason unless you have to give priority to your jungler or bounce the wave. Wave can be "bounced" by slowpushing the first wave and then hard-shoving the second wave under enemy tower, this will allow the waves to fix close to our turret and give two options to the enemy midlaner , 1- walk up and die 2- call jungler and fix the wave. Nevertheless pulling up FREEZES after the second wave lets us avoid getting ganked and deny a lot of resources from enemy midlaner. Also Irelia is easily gankable since we have to go all-in in order to do anything due to the nature of the champion we are playing, so in the right situations FREEZING THE WAVE is crucial. Freezing is also important for pulling-off solokills since Irelia needs a lot of "space" in the lane to properly deal damage.

𝘼𝙐𝙏𝙊 𝙍𝙀𝙎𝙀𝙏 𝙄𝙈𝙋𝙊𝙍𝙏𝘼𝙉𝘾𝙀
Most of our damage comes from the basic attacks, this is why is very important to learn and master this mechanic in order the be a deadly on the Summoner's Rift. 's works as an AUTO-RESET , remeber to AUTO before every Q to maximize our DPS.

𝙇𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙇 𝟭 𝙎𝙏𝙍𝙀𝙉𝙂𝙃𝙏
As we already said, Irelia is crazy strong in the midlane against certain matchups.
At level 1 we can pressure the enemy midlaner by using our on a minion that can be executed and AUTOING the enemy midlaner that is going for a last-hit.
This kind of pressure can open up scenarios where we can have FULL-STACKS of and we can OUTLANE the enemy midlaner at level 1 or even solokill him! (works best with CORRUPTING+WARP TONIC due to the bonus movement speed when you drink a potion allowing you to chase down at level 1)

𝙁𝙇𝘼𝙒𝙇𝙀𝙎𝙎 𝘿𝙐𝙀𝙏 𝙇𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙇 𝟭
Irelia is crazy strong midlane but not in every matchup. For example, if you have a Darius mid, how do you lasdt-hit? This is where helps us. Instead of going for the level 1, we can go and lasthit a few minions with our while also being able to stop Darius or any other level 1 hard matchup fromrunning us down!

𝙇𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙇 𝟭 𝘽𝙀𝙃𝘼𝙑𝙄𝙊𝙍
Having the control of the lane its important, pushing for no reason level 1 will eventually lead to the lack of kill-potential early levels since needs a good amount of "space" in the lane to pull-off solokills.

𝙋𝙍𝙀𝙎𝙎𝙐𝙍𝙀 𝙊𝙉!
's best positive side in my opinion is the advantage she has in the most matchups in the midlane.
This is why I usually like to play her mid in the 11.21 patch
So, Its important to know your champion's limits and not always but most of the times look for solo-kills opportunities.
Taking early lead is foundamental on this champion in order to snowball and take over the game.

𝙇𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙇 𝟲 & 𝙏𝙊𝙒𝙀𝙍 𝘿𝙄𝙑𝙀𝙎
As we already said has a high mechanical roof and its very rewarding getting as close as possible to the "roof".
With good mechanics and damage-output knowledge we can easily pull-off good towerdives if we are ahead and able to do so of course.
What im trying to say is that I found worth it diving the enemy lander while making him lose a huge wave, keeping the level advantage I gained trough out the laning-phase and then later taking over completely the lane.

𝙈𝙊𝘽𝙄𝙇𝙄𝙏𝙔 𝘼𝙒𝘼𝙍𝙀𝙉𝙀𝙎𝙎
's is an insane ability, we can all agree with that and the mechanic that allows you to reset it when executing an enemy target with is very important.
With "Mobility Awareness" Im talking about the ability to "set-up" minions for the reset while fighting near an enemy wave.
Setting up minions can be done with basics attacks or most commonly with will open up out-play opportunities letting us dash trough minions to dodge spells or reposition our selves.

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𝙒𝙃𝙀𝙉 𝙏𝙊 𝙀𝙉𝙂𝘼𝙂𝙀
Unless we are running a "tanky" build, engaging first is not always the best option on .
For example if the enemy team has , or any other hard-ccs, unless we are going for some sustain and health based build is not that tanky, sometimes while learning I found myself forcing a lot of fights with + and constantly dying before casing a single reset. So I just tought that reminding you this could help you out!

𝙁𝙄𝙂𝙃𝙏 𝘼𝙒𝘼𝙍𝙀𝙉𝙀𝙎𝙎
As we already said, Crowd Controls are 's Kryptonite. This is why I want you guys to focus on the enemy composition and "think forward", analyzing what kind of Crowd Controls they have and keeping them in mind will allow you to react faster to them!

𝘽𝙇𝘼𝘿𝙀𝙎𝙐𝙍𝙂𝙀 𝙄𝙎𝙎𝙐𝙀
Resetting your is foundamental in order to use 's full potential. Remember that if you get stunned while dashing with on a Marked enemy or executable minion your WILL NOT RESET. This could easily shut you down while teamfighting.

𝙏𝘼𝙍𝙂𝙀𝙏 𝙎𝙃𝙄𝙁𝙏𝙄𝙉𝙂 & 𝙋𝙍𝙄𝙊𝙍𝙄𝙏𝙔 𝙏𝘼𝙍𝙂𝙀𝙏𝙄𝙉𝙂
Target shifting is pretty important while teamfighting as since we have enough damage to completely annihilate enemy squishy targets.
Target shifting comes in handy when having to play teamfights "Front to Back". The best way to do it in my opinion is to Mark the enemy frontline with but before doing that placing the first behind you, then proceed to approach the fight resetting your on the frontliners marked, at that point the high-dps/priority targets will start focusing you and that's the time to pull out your second on them. The second if done correctly will probably arrive from two screens away so the targets will not have enough time to react to it. Once we have stunned and market the priority target our work should be done!

𝙐𝙇𝙏𝙄𝙈𝘼𝙏𝙀 𝘽𝙐𝙁𝙁𝙀𝙍 + 𝙁𝙇𝘼𝙎𝙃
You can buffer your and after the cast animation, is the most common and practical combo when you have to join teamfights.

𝙃𝙄𝘿𝘿𝙀𝙉 𝙀 + 𝙂𝘼𝙋-𝘾𝙇𝙊𝙎𝙀
As we already said you can buffer your . You can combine that combo adding the first behind you and then going in. You will find yourself in the middle of the fight with the champions you hitted with your marked and the 2nd ready to go to reset the marks. When doing this combo you wanna make sure you take the marks out before using your 2nd to ensure the highest damage-output possible!

𝙃𝙄𝘿𝘿𝙀𝙉 𝙀 + 𝙌 𝙂𝘼𝙋-𝘾𝙇𝙊𝙎𝙀 𝙊𝙉 𝙒𝘼𝙑𝙀
This combo will alow you to make easy picks on the map. Works best in side-lanes where someone will be there to take the farm. Make sure you throw your first when you are out of vison. Leave your first behind and use your to gapclose in rage to land your second . Its important to reset your while gaplosing with it if possilbe. The combo could work also without resetting your on the gapclose but It could be a bit more risky to take a pick having your on cooldown.

𝙏𝙃𝘼𝙉𝙆 𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝙁𝙊𝙍 𝘽𝙀𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙃𝙀𝙍𝙀
𝙒𝙀'𝙑𝙀 𝘼𝙍𝙍𝙄𝙑𝙀𝘿 𝙏𝙊 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙀𝙉𝘿 𝙊𝙁 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙂𝙐𝙄𝘿𝙀, 𝙄 𝙒𝙄𝙇𝙇, 𝙇𝙄𝙆𝙀 𝘼𝙇𝙇 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙊𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙍 𝙂𝙐𝙄𝘿𝙀𝙎, 𝙈𝘼𝙆𝙀 𝙎𝙐𝙍𝙀 𝙏𝙊 𝙇𝙀𝙏 𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝙆𝙉𝙊𝙒 𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙍𝙔 𝙉𝙀𝙒 𝘽𝙐𝙄𝙇𝘿, 𝙈𝙀𝙏𝘼 𝘼𝙉𝘿 𝙋𝙇𝘼𝙔𝙎𝙏𝙔𝙇𝙀, 𝙐𝙋𝘿𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙂𝙐𝙄𝘿𝙀 𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙍𝙔 𝙏𝙄𝙈𝙀 𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙍𝙀'𝙎 𝙎𝙊𝙈𝙀𝙏𝙃𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙉𝙀𝙒. 𝙄 𝙃𝙊𝙋𝙀 𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝙀𝙉𝙅𝙊𝙔𝙀𝘿 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝘾𝙊𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙉𝙏 𝘼𝙉𝘿 𝙏𝙃𝘼𝙏 𝙄𝙏 𝙒𝙄𝙇𝙇 𝘽𝙀 𝙐𝙎𝙀𝙁𝙐𝙇𝙇 𝙄𝙉 𝙔𝙊𝙐𝙍 𝙂𝘼𝙈𝙀𝙎. 𝙂𝙊𝙊𝘿 𝙇𝙐𝘾𝙆 𝙒𝙄𝙏𝙃 𝙔𝙊𝙐𝙍C 𝙂𝘼𝙈𝙀𝙎 𝙆𝙄𝙉𝙂/𝙌𝙐𝙀𝙀𝙉