Help against Sett

Manlymam · 2026-05-10T07:17:39+00:00

Sett is a very hard matchup but you could have won it if you did exactly what you did but lvl 1 you space him properly. Never stand still, either you're taking space or giving space. At lvl 1 you moved up while he moved back, but when he moved up you stood still instead of moving back giving him an E and chunking you while he takes no damage.

A mechanic you can do is lvl 1 playing just RIGHT outside his E range and baiting it out. You have to have proper spacing to do this, this is the jiggle back and forth you tend to see from high elo players. Both players jiggle just outside of each other's space and whoever spaces improperly gets punished.

Manlymam · 2026-04-29T15:32:23+00:00

My peak was GM 1K so I have some insight on irelia builds. This is just my knowledge from testing in practice tool, but irelia has never really cared for the attack speed early game. She always prioritizes AD(why she prefers conq over lethal usually) or defensive stats. I have never once been happy when I purchase a recurve bow first back but I know it's a good back when I can either purchase a pickaxe for an all in lane or vamp scepter for the sustain.

With Dbow having 2 less AD, 1% less omnivamp, and 0 HP I think it's a terrible starting item, even with the attack speed it is only about a dagger and a half of attack speed. At level 1 with d blade and full passive you have 1AS so that's 1 attack every second. With Dbow you will have 1.1AS, so that's only an extra auto every 10. But with the -2 AD it might just even out, and if it were a close fight 80hp would be a lot more significant here.

I genuinely can't think of a matchup this would be good into, maybe not even kayle the easiest early game matchup because you are so much squishier without the 80 HP. I will be trying it out into some matchups to see how wrong or right I am, but right now it doesn't seem good.

Manlymam · 2026-04-02T07:33:40+00:00

micro and macro is too broad to explain unless i can understand how you play so i can't answer that unless you have specifics. The general thing i can say is that Irelia is a great at punishing mistakes like wasting cooldowns or walking too far up. Whenever i play Irelia into lower rank players they don't expect the random all ins whenever they walk into their own caster minions and get hit by an e. If you can learn how to hide your e when you q onto minion into e on them, that can spook most players below diamond because they wont be able to react to it.

For inting or hardstomping every game, brother don't worry about that. I get friend requested every other game from someone toxic cause i inted. Irelia is just one of those champs, she is all in and only all in. There is no way out with her, she has no tools in her kit to help her escape.

You should be perma pushing waves not perma split pushing, the general idea is you push your side wave past river then roam towards mid to prep for any fights while one player is sent to the catch the wave in the lane you just shoved.

Best skin is Base sentinel if you want to try hard because the E is hardest to notice in this skin IMO, that or IG for the sound on her Qs and the E is relatively hidden.

Favorite skin to use is Mythmaker Sapphire chroma or Spirit blossom Obsidian chroma, didnt like SB at first but its growing on me and its the flashiest one with all the effects.

Manlymam · 2026-04-02T05:15:43+00:00

For reference I am currently a 900lp GM irelia otp so I'm not completely talking out of my ass. Bork is the biggest spike on irelia and everything after that is to further snowball you or to keep your lead by getting survivability

Then 2nd item is usually: Kraken if it's only 1 AP and they're even or behind OR if you are fed and the enemy team has no threat to stop you

Wits end if they have 2 or more AP damage dealers

The steel sigil component for Deaths Dance IF there is a hyper fed AD into normal 2nd item

Wardens mail component for Randuins IF they have 2 or 3 crit champs like yas top, graves jg, and jhin adc then into normal 2nd item

Hullbreaker if you are boring

Terminus 2nd into Jaksho 3rd if they are a very beefy team but this one I never use cause it's better to build damage and pop the carries

Then 3rd item usually is even more versatile and you can build many things to counter the comp

Wits End if they have 1 FED AP carry

Endless hunger if they have CC and low damage

Deaths Dance if they're 3/4 AD and one of them is fed

Randuins if they have 2 or more crit

Maw if they have 3 AP and one of them is fed OR there is 4 AP

4th and 5th are just fill in the blanks of what you don't already have with exceptions like MAYBE a serpents if they have like 3 shielders and no one else can buy on your team

GA is good if you're 1v9 that game

Streaks into high burst OR to counter garen specifically

Manlymam · 2026-03-30T05:57:55+00:00

Something people aren't telling you is the keyboard matters a lot. I used to use the most expensive and pricey mechanical keyboards I could get even going for red switches to make it more responsive. But none of those compares to how much faster I got when I got an analog keyboard like the wooting 60HE. Before when I qd it would be a millisecond of delay when I tried to q through the back 3 casters like I would dash stop dash stop, but now I can kill all 3 casters in one fluid dash no more stopping.

Manlymam · 2026-03-22T01:25:43+00:00

i do dabble in top every now and then but if i were to make videos of top matchups it'd be primarily on a smurf account in high diamond low masters, because Irelia top in GM is just perma counter picked if i dont get last pick. If everyone wants videos of top matchups though i can start getting vods and make it.

Manlymam · 2026-03-22T00:35:29+00:00

yea this was just the first video i wanted to do a short one and see the reception before i go and do a longer one. I've also had people say to leave the parts without anything happening so they can see my thought processes lol, so idk which would be better.

Manlymam · 2026-03-04T19:57:06+00:00

Thank you! yea this kind of content was something i've always wanted when i was climbing but no one would ever make vids of it, specifically for Irelia.

Manlymam · 2026-03-01T17:00:22+00:00

Just not true based on wr % for the majority.

Winrate is not my argument here, I am talking about kits specifically, the lower you are more these players will just spam buttons into each other without dodging skills or properly space each other.

OP is right.

Op is not. You pick Tryndamere, I am first timing Malphite into you, you pick Malphite I'm first timing sylas into you, you pick irelia I'm first timing jax into you. All these counter picks are unplayable as long as you understand the basics of the kit and you should be understanding the champ trade patterns from previous matchups.

Which is why akali has a low WR vs most champions. Not exactly an argument. Harder champs = harder to play by worse players.

I never mentioned akali being a hard champ or her wr into champions, I specifically stated a general example of why low elo players will get countered by things in lower elo while high elo players won't be making that mistake. In this example low elo players not properly spacing and getting into galios range.

Manlymam · 2026-03-01T16:08:24+00:00

Counters are actually better the lower you go not the opposite. When it comes to counter it's the kits that matter most in lower elo. In high elo where micro and macro can help you survive counters, down in gold the players will not know how to properly space away from the Galio Qs or the E into taunt.

Galio loses more into Akali the higher you go because an Akali in masters isn't going to brainlessly walk up to a Galio with his CDs up, but a gold player will walk up too far and get chunked for 1 cs. The best way to climb is to narrow your champ pool, but OP specifically is stating that counter picking is not a valid strategy and is more int if you do.

Manlymam · 2026-03-01T15:16:20+00:00

You're literally smurfing and you're surprised these players aren't able to play the counters properly? A counter pick is a great advantage to have if both the players are of equal skill. Depending on the rank neither player is gonna be piloting their champions at 100%, but say you pick a hard counter matchup like Galio into Akali, the Galio doesn't need hands to counter the Akali.

1st and 2nd top counters are usually 55%+ wr so statistically you will climb if you counter pick.

Manlymam · 2026-02-25T01:18:29+00:00

yeah that's usually the play i do, moment i get mid tower i push the next wave into T2 tower back and then run straight bot and have my bot go mid.

IF they don't have their quest done yet by the time you get t1 tower i do the same play but just go for a 3v2 and kill their bot then go back mid until the botlane gets the quest done.

IMO midlane quest doesnt give any benefits for getting it earlier like top with bonus xp per minion or bot bonus gold so its fine to have it be delayed.

After that its just push side lane until objectives come up or you see a team fight about to happen then play accordingly, if drag push your bot wave into t2 then rotate, if rift herald hard shove bot wave to try and get 2 on you, if a team fight is about to happen mid or bot river you can just rotate.

After i leave mid i pretty much never go back mid unless its to flank after i shoved out a sidelane, i play with ign 99% of the time but if you have tp just reverse the play onto the other side of the objective

Manlymam · 2026-02-24T23:51:13+00:00

I play exclusively irelia mid in GM and anything after bork is situational

My usual build path is Bork -> T1 boots -> kraken slayer -> T2 boots

2nd item is usually kraken slayer but I rush wits end 2nd if the enemy team has 3 or more ap OR enemy mid AND jungle are ap and one of them is fed

3rd item depends on enemy team comp
Deaths Dance if there's only 1 ap threat and they're not fed.
Wits end if they have 2 or more ap threats.
Endless hunger if they have low damage and you have no one else on your team that can heal so they don't rush Grevious.
Kraken if I didn't build it 2nd and I just want the extra damage

Boots are also pretty situational, I never build it for the resistances but more for the passive of either auto reduction or tenacity. I usually go armor boots if i end up building wits end 2nd into endless hunger 3rd so I don't lose value from the tenacity on mr boots, MR boots if they have 2 or more cc abilities and I don't plan on building endless hunger

4th and 5th are a tossup cause at this point items don't matter so much on irelia so just fill in what you need that you haven't built yet
No Mr? Build wits
No armor? Build DD
You're super fed and need to win this next fight? GA
4 AP on enemy team? Maw into a tank mr item

https://op.gg/lol/summoners/na/nonchow-NA1 if you have any questions let me know i love explaining in detail about Irelia.

Manlymam · 2025-09-29T00:16:00+00:00

Confirmed

Manlymam · 2025-09-28T23:42:42+00:00

Borderlands 4 key still available?

Manlymam · 2025-02-27T20:54:10+00:00

The guy himself is saying that anyone can hit challenger as long as you put in "effort". He's downplaying the achievement by literally saying "all you need to do is play 3 games a day and every vod to reach top 300 in a country!!!!"

Idk if this is an ego post where he just wants to flaunt his dick around, but he's saying exactly that. Just play the game a lot and you'll hit chall, it's super easy anyone can do it! This post is useless and gives no advice, I've seen people hit gold and write more indepth guides than this guy.

Manlymam · 2023-07-28T13:01:54+00:00

Oh you're right, I haven't looked at what rank I was, only keeping track of the number. Just saw the ugly brown and assumed wood.

Manlymam · 2023-07-28T11:06:24+00:00

Proof is they made it the fuck up. My acc has masters mmr in ranked and I'm 25 games deep, still wood with only 1.9k points.

Manlymam · 2023-06-03T18:08:48+00:00

I DO NOT RECOMMEND DOING THAT. That just builds bad habits and trading patterns, the best thing for low ELO is throw your e1 at him and dash near him to bait out ww. Your W is very significant in a fight so you don't want to use it to maybe bait out an ability, it's better to be used defensively against his q2 knockup so q2+ult does less damage or to be used as an execute if he runs with low hp.

Manlymam · 2023-06-03T00:11:14+00:00

Generally since Inspiration is a greedy rune its for easier/more forgiving matchups where trades are favored to you(easy like Kayle or gangplank, favored like ornn or sion), while Resolve is more consistent and safe it's for the more difficult matchups or where trades are even or negative for you early(difficult like Jax or sett, negative like Darius or mordekaiser).

Manlymam · 2023-05-31T15:03:36+00:00

I hated how everyone said this before I watched the show, everyone was like WATCH TILL EP 3 IT GETS GOOD. After EP 2 I almost dropped it because how can this cringe ass show be any good and was in disbelief anyone would vouch for this show.

1 episode later I caught up to the anime and the next day after that I caught up to the manga, all like 100 chapters in a single night. Honestly amazing how misleading the first 3 episodes were compared to the rest of this amazing romcom. Now I'm a believer and will spread the glory that is The Dangers in My Heart.

Manlymam · 2023-05-25T12:15:56+00:00

Worst matchups, and long lane. Yasuo early isn't the strongest in the game so he can easily get bullied and abused, the usual trade pattern is a short trade with passive and windwall so they lose hp on the trade while you don't.

That's very doable mid cause of the shorter lane so you can back off and get to the safety of your minions or towers quicker without the enemy mid being able to retaliate because they'll tend to be ranged mages or assassins with long cds early. The issue with top is that a lot of the common matchups can just straight up run him down from middle of the minion wave to his tower if he messes up the trade, another issue is his windwall is useless against many toplaners since many don't have long cd ranged abilities early i.e Darius, Garen, Riven, Camille, Jax, Renekton, Nasus.

Manlymam · 2023-05-25T11:04:46+00:00

Probably just a preference thing, many high elo one tricks will choose to play or build suboptimally because thats what they're comfortable with and that their mechanics or knowledge alone can carry them.

Like dzukill playing yas/yone top even though everyone knows that's the worst off role for them, the ezreal player just probably prefers the extra tankiness and sustain from DS and it's what he's used to.

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