NOOOOOOOOO. My irelia... T.T

Hey morello why you dont just remake irelia? is look like you guy dont have any idea to how balance her.

Everithing was right everithing but WHY NERF IRELIA (regardless the joke) WHYY???? she was counterable, she has a weak lane phase and now you weak that lane phase even more WHYYYYYY???

nerfing the bonus lifesteal on BT was probably abit much, but everything else was pretty decently thought out. >.>

I feel like the changes don't take into account matchups at all. The videos you show are of duo lane tops, ganks on half health champs, etc. I don't feel like the examples reflect realistic situations where every player is doing his best to stay near full health.

Things I don't understand:

Rammus powerball usability buff when that is his core mechanic for ganking. If a rammus screws up a powerball, it can save you from a gank, which is what he's too good at. I don't feel like the base stats are the right thing to hit, especially since his base armor and health are already less than other tanks (jungle or toplane)

Jax losing frontloaded damage steroid (free guinsoo's on lv 6 is backloaded, AA reset is hardly a steroid)

Lifesteal: The issue seems to be with lifesteal based on non-interactive gameplay, where a carry leaves a team fight, lifesteals, then mops up. Or a a carry trades in lane, farms, and trades again at full health. If that's the case, why is lifesteal also being nerfed in a dueling or teamfight environment where it's necessary to stay alive against champs with higher burst like graves or sivir who can frontload their damage more.

Actually they buffed the lifesteal quints as they are worth more now.

Now, I agree with almost everything on this patch and especially love the thirster buff.
however.
I think you're going about nerfing lifesteal the wrong way. I have always played lifesteal champs. champions like shyvana, warwick, even an AD cho, and while I can see what you're trying to do here, i believe adding a cap to lifesteal is a better way of going about this than simply making the items weaker. Early game it may give you some sustain, but even with the twin fang ability on shyvana, when i have a phage and a vampiric scepter I only get around 26 hp back per usage. Just something to take into consideration.

irelia nerf....? wtf

Nerfing lifesteal but not nerfing things like Atma's seems kind of odd, honestly. The bloodthirster buff was very welcome, however.

Edit: Morello, the patch previews are excellent. Even if some of the changes seem weird to me, the explanations of why are solid. (e.g, Irelia ult cooldown increase).

*changed dumb to odd, haha