Talk:Irelia/@comment-87.120.65.203-20120328102904/@comment-2124153-20120328192639

If your jungler is useless, there's not much you can do. The worst part about Shyvana's damage is that you can't build against it, like you can vs. Riven/Garen. Shyvana does high magic damage from her skills while building AD for later, so neither Armor nor MR will work, you have to buy HP instead, which isn't as effective.

Something that you may want to try is to give up trying to beat her straight-up at all, and just double down on sustain. Start boots/pots as usual, but go for an early Philo stone built off of a Regrowth Pendant on your first back. You'll be generating over 200 HP a minute, and Shyvana has no innate sustain to match it, so eventually the trades will force her lower than you. It also gives you more MP/5 to feed Bladesurge last-hits and "get off of me" Equilibrium Strikes. Plus, passive gold to help counteract her CS lead on you, the GP/10 is roughly equivalent to three minion kills every four waves.

Get a Phage after that, for the +health and the on-hit effect. This is where coordination with your jungler helps, because if you stick on her and get the slow to proc, she is not getting away, because the slow is much more powerful than her Burnout MS buff.