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amazing bro

As someone who played around the time of the "Better nerf Irelia meme", I think it's misunderstood a little today. Irelia was nerfed twice in quick succession in season 2. Right around the time some champions were far more broken than her. The second nerf came in a patch that did not touch any of the champs considered far more OP in S2, like Mordekaiser. So the joke was about Riot overlooking a ton of broken champions in favor of nerfing something else, not about Riot hating Irelia specifically.

duda1a2z ah sweet times when Morde was permabanned every game and now he seems like a troll pick

@m4Dfest7 remember when picking eve would get you ban? fun times

So now the same with akali

@m4Dfest7 I miss pre-Juggernaut Mordekaiser. Even in season 3-4 he was so much fun.

Henrique Pacheco I loved tank Morde. Force of Nature, Warmogs, Sunfire and Rylais and you were untouchable with unlimited shields

LeBlanc can still one shot you with boots at level 3

True that honestly.

hello kneecaps

Leblanc can still oneshot you with boots at lvl 3

for my next trick, I'll make their life bar...... disappear

Oh my god. Koničiwa sensei

The Irelia rework is probably one of the best thing ever in league history. From the theme, artwork and mechanics really bring this champion and the game to a new level. A big improvement to those old boring skills

Few days after her rework Irelia became an Ap Midlane Assassin.. Her W can reduce up to 100% physical and magical dmg (when charged at its maximum)at a certain AP(i think it was 800+, ofcourse with the right setup and build) *Irelia at 30% HP* *Veigar ults* *Irelia uses W* "FaKEr wHaT Was That"

Physical tho, not magical

@Yanis A. that was before the nerf

@Yanis A. She used to reduce magic damage, now I'm sad that they removed it.

@Carmelo Montes and now they added it again

@Ari M omg yes, I just recently the news too! I'm happy!!

Excellently produced and researched just like your other ones. Love it. AP Irelia was unfortuantely ignored though :(

Thank you for the kind words!!

You surely deserve more views for this amazing production, I can't imagine how much time you spent editing and doing the research, all the information was well put together and you even gave me a reason to play Irelia! Great content, you gained a new sub!

"Better nerf Irelia" - old joke "Better nerf Akali" - new joke

At least akali needs the nerfs

@Benjamín Barraza Just go play a god damn Annie, use your brain at least a bit and boom... Akali gone. No farm, no kills, no fun.

Cancer yasuo - new joke

@湛藍天 this was a joke since he was released

@湛藍天 the champion itself Is a joke

She is the literally the reason i didn't quit league of legends She is the champion made me into this game Love her lore, style, theme and gameplay The perfect and my favourite champion and one of my favourite videos games characters ever

These videos are insane, I can only imagine the time and effort that goes into them, so thank you for that. I watched your previous vids a few months ago and loved those too so I’ve been hoping you would make more. If you’re looking for another champion to do I would absolutely love to see Azir, but Akali would be cool as well.

Absolutely loving these videos! Really well done and interesting! I'd love to see an Akali or Talon version of these!

Next time you do something like this, are you able to go over the champion's abilities and what they did before they were reworked? I'm quite a new player and it would be pretty good for me!

This should definitely have more views - great video and clear a lot of effort went into it. Thanks for covering my favorite champion!

Irelia: “Balance in all things.” Exil: “Not everything is about being perfectly balanced.”

I started League in late season 8 and Irelia was the first champion i ever mained, I've just recently started getting into playing her reworked form and it's a bit harder than i was expecting. Well what would life be without a bit of challenge, although the stun being moved from point and click to a skillshot is defiantly an interesting change.

Really great content! Thankfully to you, Exil, me and many more other people are learning the League history from the beginning. Keep that content, you are doing it awesome!

man this video gave me nostalgia. the first time i picked her to try her out at around season 4 i immediately fell in love with her and became otp with her. i never got bored of her and when the rework came out i was both exited and worried but in the end i loved her again and i still play her

Never forget the hardest irelia nerf ever... - 5 Movementspeed xD

Now kassadin received the same nerf

@bageli tsandila also aphelios

A lot of nerfed character in League History Akali Irelia Katarina Rengar Kassadin Sylas Zoe Aatrox Pyke Darius sorry i don't remember.

@zeynep başar pyke not that much like the others but the nerfs rito gave him where very strong

I still miss the e full wave clear with pyke

"Irelia is nearing on 9 years old" Yeah go tell that to rule 34

lol

but she's still illegal so FBI OPEN UP!!!!

wait you`re telling me she isnt legal yet? ohhhh fuck better go to plan 795 since 794 failed

9 in dog years

so glad you've included her lore background as well as she plays quite a role in the story of ionia great content O.O

Great video! But I really miss the time around patch 5.22 where you'd rush guinsoo's first. It's the most memorable time for me as an Irelia main. Killing your enemy, then waiting fully stacked under his tower till he tp'd back and just kill him again in a second. Still good memories in here. Thanks!

These are fantastic. Id love to see a Singed full history, since hes be in the game since release and had a lot of small fundamental changes and sprite reworks.

i remember she became my main champ just days before her rework. i actually loved her before because of her ultimate but now i dont think i’ll ever play her again because she’s built different now😅

Probably the best rework they have made even though I really hate playing against her 😂 frustrating to no end when the enemy Irelia is good and knows what they’re doing

i miss the old irelia. i love the rework and shes rly fun to play. but old irelia will always have a special place for me. she was the first character i truly learned to play back in season 1

Dang I kinda want to see a series of this. I wonder what a ryze one would look like after 3 reworks and a cancelled rework on pbe. His many nerfs and him being in worlds.

Totally agree history of ryze is a very cool concept. Will definitely make more

Fiora shares a similar story I believe. I love Irelia and Fiora for the exact reason you said in the video... Feeling like a pro when I play them well.

@Leon Jackson II oh yeah that would be cool!

I joined League of Legends at Season 7 so I don't really know much of Irelia's history until her rework. Even after her rework, she was nerfed the most from what I experienced with that champion. Even with the nerfs, I still manage to find a way to make Irelia strong. Stay strong, Irelia mains!

This was so well put together. Very nicely done.

By far my favorite video about Irelia. You really sum it well. Irelia is the reason why I keep playing LoL. She is fun to play even she nerfed many times. Her theme, music and playstyle what makes Irelia fun to play

My only problem with the rework is that I feel like the damage reduction skill is out of place for her kit. If they move the on hit magic damage from passive and healing from Q to a "newer" W, she would feel more like irelia to me. The attack speed portion of the passive is fine as long as it was balanced with above. I have no problem with the new E and R. Both great upgrades for how her kit flows.

The old guides are so fun to look at but I personally enjoy seeing the old gameplay and how much the look of LOL has changed

Amazing video.... Enjoyed it thoroughly.... Very much appreciated as an irelia main.

Im so glad to hear that

Would be amazing if you do a similar thing like this for Yorick. This Video was amazing: It was interesting and i even learned some things about Irelia :D

true, the aesthetic and lore of reworked irelia is amazing and top notch, im a range kind of player but it changed ever since irelia release, and it really helped me understand more on how melees work

I started this game towards the end of season 1, very nostalgic and accurate video. Thank you for bringing me a trip down memory lane

I completely agree with you in that Irelia's rework was a success. I've been playing and loving her since S2 and she's been one of my favorites ever since. When I heard about the rework, I was afraid I'd enjoy her less as it happened with Shen. But jeez, I play her more than ever. Much love for the Ionian dancing queen

For me it was the other way around, i still like shen but never liked the assasin type gameplay she has now. I didnt see her once in ranked toplane this season

@Logando Hardkiller I do feel you. She's less sustaining than before. You now have to think before jumping into 4 enemies and and micro your way around. But I like her overall kit a lot.

she is one of my favorite champs,as i specialize in defensive gaming and tanks.i played from 2013 to 2016.irelia is one of the best defensive carry during laning phase, her radar like passive that triggers whenever there is an enemy champion planning to gank ur lane, her weak early game makes ur opponent wants to tower dive when ur just farming in front of ur tower. she is a complete package as long as u play safely during early game.

I was an Irelia main and was in a few Irelia main communities, many, infact most of the mains I knew including myself stopped playing Irelia after the rework. She just doesn't have the same playstyle or general feel anymore. I ended up playing a lot of Riven and eventually becoming a jungle main.

BadJungler definitely agree, I struggle at first but I became good at playing her. We just need consistemt practice

I was an Irelia main until the rework. I never got to remaster her because of the high expectations the team puts on me because of my mastery. They kept on flaming me until I just gave up.

Irelia is dead, they just put the same name in this new character.

@Délcio Rogério yeah, I'm glad the old Irelia is dead, she sucked.

old irelia was way easier to play, a lot of ppl that mained her day 1 were getting bored with old irelia, the rework made her into a very unique champ imo

I love ur ability to explain something without sounding like some nark like most streamers/League Youtubers do. You don't go too deep into statistics on a champ to determine how good or bad a champ is to play (which is good since the moral of a story is a champs success is based on the player) You are pleasant to listen to, and your explanations are not a lowkey shot in the knee at the skill level of the people who watch your videos or the people who play the champion. Thank you for being you!

Really awesome work man. I've been wanting to see the history of Irelia for a while.

2021 here first time watching this video. so much memories playing the old irelia. Especially 2013 to 2017. back then I claimed the rank with irelia along to diamond 2. Then later went to uni and played less and less and in 2018 someone told me the rework and I went back to the game played some old irelia month before her rework. She did teach me a lot about the game though. Back then I did not have good awareness and control of jungle when I play top lane but when playing irelia, just like what you said, you need to be very careful with details of the game rather than your champions abilities. The way of controlling the lane minions and deception to draw them to try kill you under turret. I would say about 70 to 80 percent time I can snowball with her back then. I recently came back to the game and trying to master the new irelia. Tbh, I dont feel too much different from the old one. I can use her q quite good but not her e, it's quite a pain as her e is really the wild card that can turn the tide sometimes. I love her new passive and ult. One note for your video is that I think the way to nerf irelia is to nerf her kits, like trinity and other stuff you'd get when playing irelia. I remember in s4 I'd just try to get trinity within 10 mins of the game and then just build a warmog's armor, this will normally happen between 10 to 15 mins of the game. I normally fight people at level 4 level 7 and level 11. She is really strong at these levels. Later I think they made trinity more expensive so the time you get would be delayed so is the warmog, so she is not as strong as her use to be but nonetheless she was really strong in s5 and s6 and I am pretty sure no changes was done to her abilities. There were rumours that before her initial release, her w had 120 true damage at full level but it would be disastrous for other champions and quite unbalanced so they didn't do that. But nonetheless 75 was really good damage normally with shine you can win a fight easily on top(btw I like to take attack damage runne not the attack speed back then.), the double damage shine brings with the true damage was unbearable for most top laners.

Ive been playing lol since season 2 and always been a support main and never really stopped playing but then I took a break from lol 2 weeks before Irelia rework released, i took me like 9 months to even think about playing again. When i came back i found that 2 of my favorite champs of all time received a rework (Irelia and Akali) and i tried them both out. Believe me when i say that ive never felt so strong, happy and motivated to play league of legends until i played this 2 reworked champions. This 2 are the reason im back playing regularly and i love them so damn much. The nerfs on both of them really hitted hard at least for me because of my new playstyle do to both of them because im only used to play support champions so this was a new experience for me. It didn’t last long for me since i played them too late but man im telling you that month felt amazing i cannot compare any of my moments with this game than that first month maining those 2 and getting them to M7 in like 1 week for each. All that you said at the end of the video, i felt all that. Loved the video! ❤️

Excellent video, I really loved your narration! Honestly, if Irelia had her old visuals with the new gameplay I'd play her more, but unfortunately, I don't like the visuals on the rework :/

wow, just found your channel and that was easily one of the best videos ive seen in a while. You earned this subscription and I will be sure to watch the rest of your content.

I totally forgot that they got ICU to help with the rework, that was so dope when he announced it on his channel a week before the update. They should do stuff like that more often

Irelia was my first champ I played in a real game, way way back (back when I thought you needed TWO BOOTS). Been though a lot of this, and even though she was my first lvl 6, I haven't played her much since the rework. (But that is more I stopped that play style champs before than because of Irelia rework).

I'm sorry for you this video didn't get the recognition it deserved. Well researched, I hope it will crack the 1 million view mark, good luck!

I have been waiting so long for another league documentary from you. I’ve watched the riven and yasuo documentaries you’ve made several times. Glad to see your content again!

I think a fair nerf to Irelia would be to make her reset marks (from e and r) on other targets disappear once she q's on a target, just like Diana ult. It's very frustrating having to deal with a champion that can dash 5+ times in a span of 5 seconds from resets.

This was amazing quality keep up the good work man!

Im glad you thought so!!!

28:22 and onwards really made me tear up. Thank you for giving our Ionian queen some love.

late comment but I was surprised we didn't see any mention (though short lived) of the Rageblade build after it's first change to the AoE magic damage cleave, that and the dorans blade change that was HP on hit much like cull, while one wasn't as impactful as the other they were both very good times for Irelia in soloq. Regardless loved the video and the work/production value that goes into these always impresses me keep it up.

This video is over a year old and I only played Irelia for a short time but I will miss her old kit probably forever tbh. I understand that as a pro player you might be able to do the same things after the rework as before, and see similarities that I don't between old Irelia and new Irelia. But to me it's like they made a brand new champ and then gave it Irelias Q (the ability I was the worst at using) and Irelias name. It sucks and I just want to be able to play old Irelia again but I probably never will.

I was an Irelia main until the rework. I just prefer the old Irelia. The new Irelia is more efficient and effective against team fights while the old one is more ideal for one on one. Nevertheless, I enjoyed playing the old Irelia since I get to strategize more on how to cut down the enemy team one by one. My gameplay with Irelia, although predominantly top, was more like a roaming assassin like jungle. And it was always fun to cull the enemy team number for a better fight. That being said, everything the old Irelia could do, the new Irelia could do better and I only speak because of sentiment and my inability to remaster her.

I miss old Irelia so much, she was the first champ I got a penta on.

29:08 I totally disagree with the statement that people dont want something to be fair to play against. In fact a lot of players I know hate nearly all the new releases because of their unfun/unfair kit when playing against. Some of them left the game, because they didnt want to stick around til they are kinda finetuned. Akali was/is the worst of them all with Irealia and Sylas close behind. It took Riot over half a year to finally get rid of her stealth, which was a major point why she is banned 80% of the time. I banned her every single game since I didnt want to deal with this shit. This led to playing a ton against Yasuo and Irealia in that time since I cant ban them. Zoe is a fine champion atm, but it took so long, that even now there is like a switch set to hate her.

I totally agree that while Irelia is often unfun to play against, she's not any more cancerous than Riven ( I know you said it's just your opinion, I'm not attacking). Also, for the first 20 games I felt like an AP Zed: a joke. Now though I can carry rankeds while laughing at how cool and how fun she is!

Reworked Irelia is a blast to play, she requires way more skill than most mids, sadly she and many other high skill ceiling champs have to be nerfedfor solo queue. I hope Riot makes more champs like her. I also agree with LS view on "over buffing" champs to have fun, but difficult champs be very strong, even outside of pro play. It creates a fun environment rather than the stale game we have since the Aatrox, Akali, Irelia, lb etc nerfs

To be honest, I enjoy the new Irelia more than the old one. She's more fun to play with more ways to outplay enemies.

I played Irelia as one of my few toplane champions and she was always a fun pick and ever relevant because she had no core items apart from trinity force. The fact that she had literally no scaling apart from indirect scaling for W with attack speed (more attacks, more sustain and true damage) and Q with attack damage (higher execute threshold means easier resets) gave her huge flexibility in her build. If ever I was losing lane hard I could always build full tank after sheen and complete trinity later on to still become a relevant source of damage while primarily I could just dive in and stun the adc. Her E was an extremely cool mechanic, all it needed to become better in todays game was a clear visual when it would stun, making it both easier to use correctly and easier to counter (even though countering it wasn't easy as the e would stun you even if you flashed, kinda like Garen ult). Also using a skillshot ult to get targets low enough to get resets made for fun gameplay, especially in midlane where you could use the raptor camp to do so. For me Irelia's primary role was a drain tank fighter, basically what conqueror makes out of every fighter today. You had enough damage to threaten the enemy carries but not enough to oneshot them, enough tankiness and tenacity to not instantly die when you engaged into 5 enemies and you were the ultimate Rammus, Malphite and Maokai killer, champions that were unkillable back then when your adc had died in a teamfight, meaning the could often stop you from getting objectives after a won fight. But not when you played Irelia.

Amazing video man! ^^ I love these stories and your videos in general, keep it up.

Glad to hear that !!

incredible video, the production quality is so good! also seeing gbay in those clips triggered some nostalgia

totally agree on your opinion of the best rework, i mean i loved her q before but the rest was so lame then they reworked everything but her q and now i play mostly her, always mid. i know people call her cancer but playing her is just the most fun ive had on a video game theres always a thing you couldve done better

Every time I watch one of your videos it makes me want to go and play that champ relentlessly xD Thanks for sharing

I was new to league back when I discovered pre-reworked Irelia and Akali. I am like destined to main them. From bronze 5 to silver 2 in 4 days playing Irelia. Now I hate that both of them have been nerfed too much or at least removed their unique abilities.

thank you for making a video that encompasses my favorite champion 💜

I was a main Irelia before the rework and never touched her again after it. She was one of the funniest champions out there and I really miss that playstyle :(

this video isnt just another "hey check out the new op build" league video, this is a piece of art and i appreciate your drive to make something of quality instead of trying tp pump out quantity, we need you on this platform, thank you.

Thats awesome, what a great compliment. Thank you.

In my opinion her Q focuses too much on the blade and not enough on the dancer. Overall if we don't consider balance it's a really cool design.

I really miss the old irelia, she was my main top laner, I am not having as much fun as I used to with the new Irelia

The rework sent shockwaves thought the community. Competitive players and streamers started picking her up, and I hit level 7 mastery on Poppy.

This was awesome. You should do it for more champs. Maybe Katarina? 🙂

wana see kata ;)

did you know that you can get penta with kat for just pressing 5 buttons?

GD Kepler more like 15 buttons

@Kepler ' maybe lol... if the enemy team were bots and didn't know that there was actually a counter to katarina...

Logan Schmidt man I was joking

Malphite did the same role as her earlier, but not many liked using him. But he was powerful enough at the time to 1 vs 5 if you were good with him. He was still more balanced than irelia.

I haven't even watched the video. Thank you. I mained and loved this champ until she was reworked and am looking forward to hearing all about her.

The new Irelia just doesn't feel the same

I'll take what I can get, but I pray for a revert everyday

@Aqasavalla Yeah, she feels better.

I quit the game after the rework, league was getting less and less fun as it was but loosing my main was too much.

Old irrelia was my favorite champ. after the rework I dont even see the same champion anymore, I dont see the champ that I fell in love with. I just wish they didnt change her so much. I wish it was more so just a visual rework. I still have her old blade as a key chain to remember her by.

I have never played old Irelia, but when I saw the rework spotlight I was amazed. 4 years later I have 200k mastery points on the champion ;D. One of the best additions to the game, truly

Irelia has been my main top laner ever since season 7 (I started S6 and discovered her in S7). I tried my best to master her until I constantly destroying Yasuo one-tricks in bronze(Yasuo players in bronze are easy to read). But now that she's reworked, she's stuck at mastery 5 and I switched to Fiora.

Irelia was my main for 3 years. played her one time after rework and quit the game xD but thanks for the good memories bro

Thanks for these vids! They are keeping me most entertained during this quarantine, do evelynn next! Lol! Keep up the great work!!!!

"I've never killed a person... just a lot of Noxians..."

Maybe they are swine

" i dance on your grave XD"

I wanna like this but I can’t

"Bury them in Noxus, our land will not have them!'"

Oh

I have been playing league since season one, hearing you talk about how bad it feels to have your mains reworked hit right home, these are the champs that i have mained in all that time (and yes i have always been a one trick pony): Irelia, Vlad, Ryze (through 3 iterations of him) and Swain, in 2016 i stopped playing for a little over a year, just to come back to a game where i didnt how how to play any champion anymore - felt very alienating :( To all those who will definitely experience this in the future, dont give up dont be sad, hold dear your memory and embrace something new :)

This.. is actually a very well put together video.. Good job

Right in the feelings :( rip irelia

great video btw, I really love it. it would be great to make a Galio History

You didn't mention it but irelia had ap ratios because ap Irelia was briefly viable. Though not as briefly as ap Irelia on the pbe after her rework. It was fun that rito tried to give every champ build options but frankly that's usually how it went. If alternative builds were viable they would be nerfed. And usually the champion would be restricted anyway or worse just become unworkable with their wonky kit. Though I admit I do kinda miss trolling around with ad crit support nunu.

I miss the old Irelia E, that stun was the best thing.

I got into the game around the time of her rework (and am still terrible at the game) but I've played her almost exclusively ever since

Irelia would be fun if she had any of her old strengths still. Overall as an Irelia main the champion feels too reliant on R and a very slow passive, and the champion has no reliable sustain anymore especially since lifesteal has been changed.

Irelia mid was the perfect thing and the best role for her and I don't know why riot wanted her so bad in top lane

honestly i miss old irelia more than any other old champion/pre rework. the new one doesnt feel as satisfying to kill someone, it feels like an "ofc"

Irelia went from a simple champion that got nerfed a lot to a complicated champion who still gets nerfed a lot.

One thing I’ve noticed about rito is when a champion doesn’t fit in into their intended mold they change it to make it THEIR mold, not the players choices.

indeed

with 2017 irelia, i could and did play her in 5 positions. I really miss the old ire

"The music, the art, the abilities, the lore, the skins, the gameplay, coupled together to be one of the most exciting things in gaming. She is so fun, so fast, so quick and feels so smooth to play" Sounds like the perfect pve MMO character, not a pvp champion to invalidate every other champion similar to it

This was really well done and I can see the time you spent on this. GGWP

I still don't like her new W tho, I just feels kinda off having to stand still on a highly mobile melee champion. Also miss her true damage, but besides that I agree she's probably one of Riot's best reworks.

Great video, I would be interested in the history of Rengar (if your going to do more "Complete History Of" videos)

a complete history to healer/shield supports?i feel like they got so nerfed to the point riot doesnt even know what to do with them like decaying shield and nerfing support items over and over...

Playing against heal/shield bots was cancer in Ardent meta. I hope we never have that meta again

@Jude Aberdeen Playing against kill lanes has always been cancer, and they always complain about the heal lanes that are intended to counter them if they can keep from dying....

@Ern de Che I'm pretty sure kill lanes counter enchanters (sustain lanes.) With poke lanes countering kill lanes.

@Me AndMeToo truth is what counters what changes with time, that's all there is to it, just like a burster can counter another burster if it does the same job better

He did one on ardent after your comment

My all time favourite champ, my by far most played champ. Currently the only champ I can play. The champ I just recently got Diamond on EUW with. Thanks for the video.

Man, I do miss the old irelia. my safe top lane pick