Players who have played
League of Legends Season 2 must know
Irelia, the Will of the Blades, the
top solo champion
either been banned or picked. She was once the dominator among top solo
champions who was invincible in early game. She could enter and got out
of opponent faction easily in mid game and dealt double or triple kill.
Later,
RIOT nerfed her several times. As a result, Irelia becomes powerless now and few players play her now.
Now let’s review the nerf history of Irelia.
1. Irelia is the first champion nerfed on concept art in the history of League of Legends.
The
picture above is the concept art of Irelia released on magazine by
Riot. We can see clearly that she has 8 blades as her weapons.
But when Irelia finally launched, the concept art changed.
These
two pictures are quite different. Besides her narrower chest, there are
only 4 blades now. Although the new Irelia seems more beautiful now
from her face, it’s hard to accept the changes.
2. She rose in Season 2 and then was nerfed 13 times in a row.
Irelia
was a normal champion at the beginning of her launch. All her stats
were great and she could play varied roles. In eyes of players, Irelia
was quite normal and needed to be buffed. Soon, the first buff came.
Then, nightmare began.
Some
adventurous players began to try Irelia. They found that she could
fight against all other champions when solo top lane and had dash skill,
true damage, certain magic damage of skill, AD damage, directional ult
with long range of damage, strong restoring ability, resistant to
control. She could also slow and stun unit. Afterwards, Wicked developed
the gameplay of Irelia with Wriggle's Lantern and Wit's End. Players
started to notice Irelia. What was more, free Irelia week came and she
became quite hot. RIOT also realized the power of such a top solo
champion and started endless nerf of Irelia.
Irelia was nerfed ceaselessly during the whole year from March 15
th, 2011 to March 20
th,
2012. But she was still very powerful. However, with the joining of
more strong top solo champions, Irelia faded away in the end.
Once there was a popular saying in the forum that “New champion is too powerful, seems that Riot will nerf Irelia soon”.
Also
there’s saying in my heart as well as all Irelia fans’ hearts that “You
have nerfed Irelia’s skills, yet you can’t nerf the will in my heart”.
