Hey guys fourpaws here and today we are going to be breaking down some of the mechanics
and tricks to mastering irelias abilities.
She has some cool tricks to most of her abiltiies, however when you compare her to someone like
Tryndamere or Riven I personally think she's less mechanically demanding.
I think good Irelia players make the correct micro-choices on trade windows and which minons
to dash to with blade surge and such.
So anyway, let's brake down each ability and talk about any relevant mechanics, tips or
tricks.
So let's get straight into it with her Q, Blade Surge.
As the tooltip states, if the target dies to the damage of your blade surge then it's
cooldown is automatically refreshed.
You really need to abuse this mechanic as it makes Irelia insanely mobile and it's your
main method of closing the gap on your opponent.
Track enemy minion healthbars and get used to bouncing around the lane to outplay and
juke out your opponent.
I h ope it also goes without saying, you can use this ability to aid in last hitting as
you do get a small mana return if you land that killing blow.
A small combo to set up minions health bars is to chip them down with your ultimate trascendent
blades.
This can catch your foe by surprise and set up a nice dash target to engage onto your
opponent.
Blade surge also procs and applys Sheen effects, on top of any other on hit effects you might
have.
So in example, Irelias Hiten Style whilst active causes her auto attacks to hit for
true damage, thus this will be applied to your blade surge.
If Hiten style is timing out, it might be worth to throw in a quick blade surge just
to essentially get off another autoattack and hit off that true damage.
Moving onto Irelias W, Hiten style this is the iconic ability of Irelia.
Every time you autoattack Hiten style will passivly restore you health.
It's worth noting that this is not a lifesteal effect, it's kind of an-on hit effect.
If you autoattack anything, a minion, champion or even a structure like a turret you will
generate that health regeneration.
Also if you are blinded hiten style will still heal.
Irelia will often find herself shoved under her turret at the start of the lane phase,
so if you see this is going to happen grab a point in hiten style at level two.
You can then use this ability to aid in last hitting under the tower, as it's more mana
effecient to last hit with hitten style over your blade surge.
Even though your bladesurge does return mana when it kills a target, it still will cost
you 50mana to succesfully use two bladesurges, compared to 40 mana to activate hiten style.
The 15 True damage from the level one hitten style should be enough to last hit the creeps
early on.
Irelias's third ability, Equilibrium stike has a simple mechanic to understand and use.
This ability will stun the opponent if they have a higher health percentage than Irelia,
or otherwise it will slow them for the same duration.
Since the ability works off of health %, if you equilibrium strike a target with the same
health as Irelia it always stun them.
So in example if you are both full health, you will be guarenteed the stun on your foe.
And finally let's talk about Transcendent blades, which is Irelias ultimate ability.
This ability generates four blades for Irelia to shoot out in a target direction.
Each time you fire out one of these blades you will procs any sheen effect items you
have.
This means it is often better to space out the charges of your ultimate so that you can
constatly proc your Sheen and maxmize your damage.
Transcendent blades also has a relatively low cooldown of 70 seconds, decreasing by
10 per level.
Thus it can be a good idea to use your ultimate to push out the minion wave if you want to
return to base.
When you get back to lane you'll only have no ultimate for around 35seconds or so.
Also keep in mind that your ultimate can be used to aggro monster camps.
So when you are escaping through the jungle, use your ultimate to grab aggro then bladesurge
to saftey.
That's all for this video, hopefully I didn't miss anything, but if I did please feel free
to call me a nooblord in the comments and fill in the gaps.
As I mentioned Irelias kit isn't about making flashy combos or utilizing animation locks
like other top lane champions.
Ensure you utilize everything I've mentioned today so that you get the most out of Irelias
kit.
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Thanks for watching guys, and until next time take care.