u/Impressive-Emu-4799

I started learning Irelia recently, and I'm a bit disappointed that the champion is essentially blade of the ruined king, the item. I never felt more weak at 4 items with Irelia than any other fighters out there, even some champions like Renekton have better scaling, not even talking about how nashor disable your champion.
Then I see on league of graph that she's in the bottom 3 worse champions by winrate toplane after 25mn falling to 45% winrate in the 30mn+.
Its a bit sad because I like the champion and I'm still learning it, but I don't like Irelia being a one item power spike champion, while other fighters can get similar advantage without falling off this hard.
Rant over.

What do you guys think?

*Image 1 is from league of graph, image 2 is lolalytics. Winrate is a higher on lolalytics because it needs to be compared to the average winrate in emerald+*

Now that the patch is near its end and the winrate has stabilized, here are the winrates for Riven top and mid before and after the nerfs on lolalytics.

*game avg winrate (2nd winrate on the image) is what to look for here.

Using standard runes without joat to gauge the nerfs, I did a full combo on 0 armor dummy before and after nerfs using PBE and live servers, with 2 different setup.

First image is live server, second is pbe.
First dummy test is lvl 6 with doran blade and a longsword.
Second dummy test is lvl16 with doran blade + axiom + dd + endless hunger.

Combo I did : ER - AA - Q1 - AA - Q2 - AA - Q3 - AA - W - R2 - AA.
A bit unrealistic to pull the whole abilities sequence late game but still gives a pretty good idea of how the total dmg would be affected.

Keep in mind that dmg shown here is before any armor was applied.