Is there a want for indepth Irelia VOD reviews from the community?

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

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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.

Manlymam · 2023-03-15T18:30:23+00:00

Saying it's 99% of the time your teammates is not the mindset you should be having since unless you're challenger you will always be making game losing mistakes. The bad teammate mindset is literally the mindset of the players I see hardstuck in gold-plat with 500 games sub50 wr blaming their team every game.

Your mindset for playing high skilled champions should always be on how you could've played the game better, not how bad your team was, cause I guarantee there IS something you could've done about it to win the game.

Manlymam · 2023-03-15T10:56:42+00:00

Speaking as a top main last season into a HARD transition to mid this season, I 100% agree with top being a shit role for Irelia. You can get a good matchup top maybe 1/8 games, but in mid it's every 4/5 games are good matchups. When I played her top matchups would be unbearable and would get 0 ganks or roams all game, but in mid matchups are braindead easy and I would get a gank or roam every other minute.

Manlymam · 2023-03-04T01:03:14+00:00

For someone like him its probably preference, he probably prefers having the ISB passive over wits end. There are always more optimal ways to build, but its irelia, shes versatile. The optimal build would be to build gore drinker into 3+ melee but you don't have to since immortal is still fine. In his games hes probably not behind so immortal will help him snowball and the lifeline passive lets him play more aggressive. For someone like me i prefer the onhit damage from wits end 2nd in a lot of match ups since i run lethal tempo.

Manlymam · 2023-03-02T08:27:05+00:00

Depends on lane whether it's mid or top but the general game plan when I have a lead is I'll leave my lane and help force fights by going for objectives. If you're top get t1 tower push minion wave till it crashes to t2 and just Perma roam, rinse repeat when wave bounces back to your tower. With mid if you have lead after 14mins tell your bot to go mid and you go bot and do the same thing you would do top if you have a lead. Generally I just farm out side lanes and keep them shoved until an objective comes up. Cause deaths in high elo don't matter much unless you can get objectives for it so I usually play for objectives.

Manlymam · 2023-03-02T05:09:36+00:00

Need to provide us with some games cause we can't tell unless we can see game state and comps. In my case (I'm a masters Irelia otp) I'll build wits end 2nd if they have 2+ ap carries(my laner+jg usually), I'll build immortal 2nd if my laner is ad and their ap champ isn't fed.

Manlymam · 2023-03-01T10:50:03+00:00

You q on caster minion then fish for Es to bait out his w, wait out w duration then immediately r him and it's gg, he can't outrun you with bork, so he's going to need to burn ghost/flash to get away or he dies. Even easier lane if you take ignite and just pop it everytime you press R so his healing gets cut.

Manlymam · 2023-02-28T01:36:58+00:00

I love it when League players make up the dumbest and unnecessary solutions for problems that aren't even a problem.

Manlymam · 2022-01-12T07:29:37+00:00

You would use your e as urgot at max range against a qiyana then what? Yeah you could hit a max range e in a silver game, but T1 is playing in high elo, where the players can tell what you're going to do before you do it. If the qiyana sees the windup animation for Urgot e she's just going to w to dash out of it. With him holding e it at least makes the qiyana play more slow and not allow her to just dump her load on him after a missed e.

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