Irelia Wild Rift Guide, Build and Strategy

Irelia is a fighter champion who dashes into targets, damaging and applying on-hit effects on it. She can clear minion waves faster with her Bladesurge, and can chase multiple enemies with it due its reset effect.

How to Play Irelia

• It is better to build stacks of Ionian Fervor first before engaging on a fight
• Irelia excels at 1v1 because of her passive Ionian Fervor
• Use Bladesurge to clear minion waves faster
• Use Bladesurge to sustain yourself in the lanes
• Bladesurge can be used to dodge enemy skills
• Use Defiant Dance to reduce incoming damage
• Hitting enemies with Flawless Duet in the bush will reveal them
• You can stun multiple enemies with Flawless Duet
• Vanguard’s Edge will also reveal enemies on the bush
• Use Flawless Duet to in engaging enemies
• Vanguard’s Edge is Irelia’s greatest tool during teamfights

Skills

Passive / Ionian Fervor: Hitting an enemies with abilities grant 8% bonus attack speed for 6 seconds, stacking up to 4 times. At max stacks, attack deals an additional magic damage.

Skill 1 / Bladesurge: Dashes through an enemy, dealing physical damage and healing herself. Bladesurge’s cooldown is refreshed if the target was Marked or dies to Bladesurge.

Skill 2 / Defiant Dance: Hold: Defends with her blades for up to 1.5 seconds, taking 50% reduced damage. Release: Whips the blades forward, dealing physical damage, increased by up to 100% with charge time.

Skill 3 / Flawless Duet: Send a blade to target location. May be recast within 3 seconds to send another blade. The blades converge upon reaching their destination, dealing magic damage, stunning for 1 second and marking enemy champions and large monsters hit for 5 seconds.

Skill 4 / Vanguard’s Edge: Fires a storm of blades that deals magic damage and marks enemy champions for 5 seconds. The blades explode into a wall for 3 seconds upon hitting an enemy champion. The bladewall deals magic damage and slows by 90% for 1.5 seconds.

Item Build

Trinity Force, Blade of the Ruined King, Gluttonous Quicksilver, Sterak’s Rage, Guardian Angel, Death’s Dance

Runes

• Conqueror – Gain stacks of Adaptive Force when hitting a champion with separate attacks. When fully stacked, deal bonus adaptive damage to champions. Stacks up to 5 times.
• Brutal – Gain 7 AD and 2% armor penetration, or 14 AP and 2% magic penetration.
• Bone Plating – After taking damage from a champion, the next 3 champion abilities or attacks against you within 1.5 seconds deal less damage.
• Sweet Tooth – Increases Honeyfruit healing by 25%. Whenever you or a nearby ally eats a Honeyfruit you gain 20 gold.

Spells

• Ignite
• Flash

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