Maybe to you irelia doesn't seem like a hard champion but it is, it needs a time to practice her and learn combos which are best for you. Irelia is beautiful champion with beautiful waveclear, movement control around your lane and damage.

PROS
+ very strong early game
+ great mobility and movement on lane
+ easy to farm
+ one of the strongest 1v1 laners
+ big damage with passive
+ incredible fun
+ your items have great synergy with your passive

CONS
- not easy champion to play, you need to master Irelia and find your own way to play
- always need to hold passive for dealing good damage (you need to hold 5 spell stack)
- hard to carry a team
- in late game Irelia starting to fall off
- if you miss one spell you are losing a chance to win a fight
- in early game very mana hungry
- baron is very big counter for irelia because she cant jump on minions

- Core item for irelia - damage with Sheen combined with your Q, movement speed from phage, attack speed and cooldown reduction, everything what you need.
- Great item giving you attack speed, magic ressist and most importantly healing from passive, which is combined with your passive - you are dealing a huge amount of magic damage and 30% is healing you.
- Damage, health and incredible stats from passive which are very useful in teamfight.
- Health, magic ressist and more important thing, giving you 30% more received healing.

Why Tiamat ?

Because you can Stack your passive easily.

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Over time I hope to add more to the guide to keep it relevant. Eventually I would like to add more matchup specific information, as well as a full breakdown of different runes. I know I change my secondary runes often based on matchup!

Also, I am not the most artistic person in the world, so if there is anything I can change with the formatting of the guide, please let me know! I would love to make adjustments to make the guide easier to ready. And lemme beat you trolls to the punch, "It would make it easier to read if you just deleted the guide, har har, Kappa", well too bad for you, I don't care about deleting it, just care about improving it!