Takerial wrote...
I've been spectulating and I'm thinking of trying out AP Irelia.
It seems somewhat like a sound possibility. Use her Q to proc Lichbane onto people. Nashor's Tooth dealing magic damage on top of her true damage. And since her Q resets if you get kills it makes it possible to use it as a sort of pseudo reset.
And she can naturally build things like Spirit Visage or Guardian Angel so she can be slightly tankier too.
But honestly its hard to say just how effective she'll be.
But I really like her as a champion and feel her ability to outplay people could make her a very effective mid. But the ad version of her just doesn't last well into the later game and it's hard to carry on it. I wonder just how well the AP version of her would work in this regard.
The main issue with AP Irelia is that, until you build Lich Bane and Nashor's, the only way you're taking advantage of your AP are E and R, so your early game will be troublesome. :( And the ratios are half of your max AP, so it's not possible to burst as well as you could with an AD build... Nashor's is a good idea regardless of building AD or not, because CDR helps Irelia tons, and she scales off attack speed thanks to all that true damage. I know one of my friends who consistently builds Nashor's as a third item (he goes Vamp -> BF Sword -> BT -> Sheen -> Stinger -> Trinity -> Nashor's -> rest tanky), so it's not completely useless. Try it out and see how it goes~