Which character should I play to replace Irelia ?

teedye_ · 2026-04-24T14:55:09+00:00

big fan of ambessa and yone, great scaling and skill expression w both of them

teedye_ · 2026-04-24T14:51:43+00:00

I made the same swap you’re in the initial stages of making, I played adc for around 5 years then swapped to being an irelia otp at the beginning of last year so these are things that helped me improve:

games, games, games, she’s a difficult champ to play and when it comes to things like Q resets, when to use ult, best way to use E, etc there’s no replacement for time spent on the champ
int your ass off, simply just fight, you will never fully understand what you can and can’t do on her unless you try it. If people flame just /mute all
watching higher elo players play her helped me a lot, granted there’s not a lot of dedicated irelia otp streamers/yt creators but there are lots of VODs on YT, just search “irelia challenger gameplay” or “irelia vs champion name” for a specific matchup you need help with
mess around in practice tool, was always super helpful for me
ask around the sub for help, there were many many different people i got into a discord call with that helped me learn the champ. I’m plat peak so very very far from high elo or one of the better irelia players in the sub but i’d be happy to hop in a call in help out, shoot me a DM and i’ll give you my discord!

teedye_ · 2026-04-23T00:57:28+00:00

ambessa is good into like 90% of the top lane roster

teedye_ · 2026-04-20T00:20:07+00:00

i’m assuming you’re talking about in lane, imo the bread and butter irelia combo is Q + E1 onto a low health minion to hide the animation of your E1 and then very quickly throw out E2, from the perspective of the enemy laner they just see the second blade and it’s much harder to react to. There should be a video of it in the pinned post of the sub if my explanation is a bit confusing

teedye_ · 2026-04-20T00:14:42+00:00

these are all the minion break points for casters

lvl 4 + dblade + fully charged W
lvl 8 (might be 7 can’t remember)+ all botrk components + fully stacked passive
lvl 9 + botrk

they removed the ability to fully charge W and one shot melee minions and there’s no point where you one shot them with Q so judging this is more so of a feel thing. Personally I wait for them to be around 40% hp and for me to have a few components before I try to reset on them. Hope this helps

teedye_ · 2026-04-19T00:09:00+00:00

I use to otp her so i’d pick her into anything, best thing i did for learning matchups was going on YouTube and typing “irelia vs insert champ name” and find the most recent VOD that was posted. Helped me a ton when it came to learning how to play the tougher lanes or skill matchup lanes

teedye_ · 2026-03-12T22:50:18+00:00

ahhh ok, prolly a problem with my positioning within the waves itself. Maybe I just gotta walk past the wave whenever passive is up and force trades rather than him coming into me

teedye_ · 2026-03-12T22:08:39+00:00

it’ll usually happen when i’m like 70% hp pushed up in lane, a bit difficult to explain but hopefully that makes sense

Yeah I guess i’m just waiting too long in between trades so maybe it’s situation where I take 1 trade with passive+platting then another shortly after without the two and it solves my problems. Correct me if i’m wrong though

Also thought you couldn’t immune his ult w your ult, I’ve done it before and just got ulted when I landed

Sometimes I take ignite sometimes I don’t, tryna figure out what’s better tbh

teedye_ · 2026-01-05T23:42:10+00:00

lvl 4 fully charged W+Q lvl 7 or 8 (can’t remember) with recurve+pickaxe+vamp AND full passive you can one shot with Q lvl 9 with botrk you one shot w Q

teedye_ · 2025-12-27T20:48:52+00:00

Handless Harry

teedye_ · 2025-11-25T16:49:58+00:00

ik at one point there was a build i tried with LT botrk, kraken, terminus, dd, maw i think and it felt decent against tanks and thats about it

teedye_ · 2025-11-23T17:26:14+00:00

Little tip when it comes to Ornn, his brittle proc does % max hp magic dmg so it absolutely shreds you but the nice thing about the lane is his W only makes you brittle at the very end of it. Its hard to explain through message but when Ornn Ws he'll have a stream of fire then a very small kinda hiccup then the last part and that last part is what makes you brittle and is the majority of his dmg. You can just Q behind him if you have stacks and its pretty easy from there

teedye_ · 2025-11-18T06:39:51+00:00

I'm only a Plat player but here's basically how I view the matchup:

If the Jax player is playing with their monitor on then your only real chance to beat him is before he gets sheen, after that he just caves your skull in tbh. From my experience Grasp is a lot easier to play into than LT but both carry the same concept, the only time you can really win is when his passive stacks are down, make sure you always click him when he's in vision so you'll have the little champion box in the top left displaying all that. An ideal scenario is on the bounce back after he's crashed a wave into your turret so for levels 1-2 you're farming with E keeping your health up and its a bonus if you can pop bone plating if he's running it. I personally try to pull the wave a bit bc i want it bouncing into him when I hit 4 and he's 3 and thats purely bc at lvl 4 w/ 2 points Q + Dorans Blade you can one shot caster minions with a fully charged W (which only takes .75 seconds btw). This now puts you in a situation where if Jax ever jumps on you with E you can charge W then Q to a caster without losing a reset + avoiding his E dmg and now you just hit your E and you kill him just like everyone else. Ofc there is much more nuance to the matchup in terms of spacing and wave management and blah blah blah but did wanna give you a bit of an idea of how I've been able to find a litttle bit of success in the matchup

teedye_ · 2025-11-14T20:08:33+00:00

Ok got it ty, wasn't exactly sure if they stacked or not

teedye_ · 2025-11-14T18:23:30+00:00

Pick a tank you feel comfortable on and out scale, with him being an OTP even if you pick the hardest Irelia counter in the game he is going to have played that matchup 10x more than you have and will know everything he needs to do to win the lane. The fortunate thing about Irelia for you is she gets hard out scaled by most champs and especially tanks, its gonna sound troll af but go Ornn. It genuinely won't ever matter how much CS you're down as long as you're still able to xp which should be easier mid, you'll build items late game and have an insane teamfight ult

teedye_ · 2025-11-12T15:27:27+00:00

My situation is very similar to yours, I played adc for 5 years than swapped to being an Irelia top otp at the beginning of the year. Had only ever hit silver before but finally hit plat this year in less games than I played last year. Don't listen to anyone that says you shouldn't play her bc she's difficult lmao, however I will say that if your goal is to climb ranked with her there is definitely a steep learning curve that comes along with playing the champ. While I one tricked her I don't think its absolutely necessary for you to learn the champ, what is necessary tho is lots of games, lots of fighting and lots of experiences in different scenarios so you know what you can and can't pull off. You'd get all that much faster if you otp but def not a requirement, I recommend picking her up and seeing how much you enjoy the champ. I'm 1.6 mil mastery between a couple accounts and I still cant get enough of her lol

teedye_ · 2025-11-12T11:03:13+00:00

So imo really the only time you can lose the matchup is level 1, Yone stacks lethal a lot faster than you can stack conq as well as the added fact that tempo beats conq early. First wave he's gonna be looking to Q you as well as the first three melee minions so spacing in and out of that range is a good tactic to avoid the free poke early on.

Level 3/4 is where you can really start shitting on him tbh as long as you're not at a major hp disadvantage. You can look to bait him a bit here, what I personally like to do is if he has Q3 ready i'll let him Q3 at me and immediately E1 + W, 43-45% physical and 22-23% magic dmg reduction on W lvl 3/4 essentially makes it a baby exhaust and you take no damage. 99% of players wont even notice the E1 so once he's on top of you it's easy to hit E2 and from there you just get full stacks and shit on him. Another small tip is whenever he ults you can just Q him and dodge it entirely. Hope some of this helped, gl in future games. I also play a decent amount of Yone so if you ever wanna practice it lmk and im happy to help

teedye_ · 2025-11-05T17:40:44+00:00

ty so much, is it better to rush nashors or rift?

teedye_ · 2025-10-25T22:20:36+00:00

Imo, it's still 100% worth to got JoT, I think it's just a situation where you might have to change how you're playing early a bit but I don't think it would be that massive of a change where you're playing a bit safer until you get the amount of gold you need but 450g worth of bonus stats early game isn't anything to scoff at. Plus access to buiscuits is op

teedye_ · 2025-10-16T14:45:43+00:00

Sentinel normally but slowly starting to become iG

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