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Champion Spotlight[]
Recommended Items[]
Tips[]
- Playing As
Irelia
- If you are against a ranged champion, it is best to rush
Sheen and synergize with 
Bladesurge to farm up as you are not going to attack them as much and allows you to properly CS to not get behind. While in a melee matchup, 
Tiamat is the best way to go for its wave clear and DPS for 1v1s. - Timing and use of your abilities properly allows you to maximize damage output by quickly stacking and maintaining
Ionian Fervor. - Placement of your
Flawless Duet is critical to stunning targets in addition to gaining stacks of Ionian Fervor. - Large/epic monsters and Champions that have been marked by Flawless Duet or
Vanguard's Edge are temporarily visible through fog of war. This can be used to your advantage to speed jungle clears or by ambushing enemy champions with Bladesurge. - In the early game, after maxing your Q - Bladesurge, it is best to max your E - Flawless Duet second because you can use it against
caster minions to lower their health and grant resets to Bladesurge.
- Playing Against Irelia
- When Irelia has used Vanguard's Edge on you, it is best to wait till the blades despawn due to the additional damage and extreme slow you will be debuffed upon.
- Once Irelia has engaged in a teamfight, you are prioritized to focus her as she has control over the teamfight with Vanguard's Edge and can use Flawless Duet to stun your whole team.
- As a tank in the early game against Irelia, the essential items you need are
Ninja Tabi and 
Bramble Vest as that will lower the damage and reduce the healing of Bladesurge. - Champions with natural True damage from their abilities will negate the damage reduction from
Defiant Dance. Taking 
Ignite against Irelia is also a good option due to the healing reduction and true damage aswell.
Playstyle[]
Ability Usage[]
Ionian Fervor [Innate]
- Ionian Fervor will greatly increase your attack speed if you manage to get the stacks which makes Irelia more dangerous during 1v1s.
- It also makes early engages more successful as it gets you advantage over your enemy laner.
Bladesurge [Q]
- Bladesurge is your main farming tool during early game. It's highly recommended to only use it on dying minions or champions and large monsters hit by Flawless Duet and Vanguard's Edge's as using this ability on marked enemies refreshes its cooldown as well.
Defiant Dance [W]
- Defiant Dance is what you wanna use while getting ganked by burst assassin like
Evelynn as the damage you'll get will be much lower and will save you from many dangerous situations. - During midgame and lategame it's also good to make enemies attack you first and then use it.
- You usually wanna save this ability in case enemy would go in or you would get ganked.
Flawless Duet [E]
- As Irelia, you usually use Flawless Duet when you want to engage. Using Bladesurge on marked enemies will refresh its cooldown allowing you for using it more often to deal more damage.
- It's also a great option if you're getting chased as
stunning enemies will get you more time to run.
Vanguard's Edge [R]
- Vanguard's Edge is Irelia's powerspike. Enemies won't usually want to walk through blades which will force them to flash if they don't want to die.
- It's also a great tool during teamfights and will allow you to initiate with it easily.
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