Talk:Irelia/@comment-4957501-20120530190040

I finally played against a Darius at top lane as Irelia yesterday. I was pretty intimidated and nervous about the whole deal because of all the comments about how easily he crushes her and how it's practically impossible to win against him on this page recently, but the laning phase wasn't that bad at all for me. Granted, his mana costs need some nerfing as even starting Cloth and 5 pots he was able to make me go through every pot I had and still have less than half HP left by simply spamming his abilites all day till his mana bar was empty without even having any kind of mana regen, but I still didn't do badly at all. CS was pretty much the same even though I was relegated to farming under the tower while he was freely roaming lane and I actually managed to get a kill and an assist off of him too due to jungler ganks thanks to him automatically pushing whenever he harassed me with his Q and by running Ignite and Exhaust instead of Flash. Kept farming under tower and taking the golems whenever the my lane was a little pushed. Started competing for Dragon and participating in lane pushes/invades/team fights with the rest of my team by the time I hit level 8. Even though bot lane did pretty horrible and the enemy Ashe outfarmed our TF and was on a rampage less than 10 minutes into the game (our botlane apparently never dealt with a Blitz support before), managed to pretty much carry the game in the end and ended 20/4/12. I don't think he was a terrible player either, I was last pick for my team and he was first pick for his, so he was definitely at a higher elo at the very least.

TL;DR, I didn't find him that difficult to deal with at all. He's much stronger no doubt, but then that's the case with nearly every solo top as Irelia and your laning as a result is more or less the same as usual. Farm passively and focus on surviving till mid game comes around. Smash enemys shocked face in once it does because they fail to realise that you shouldn't attempt to abuse Irelia in mid game like you did during her early. Got really close a couple of time no doubt, his Q-E-W-AA-Q-R combo does ridiculous amounts of damage, but as long as you have an idea of how his mechanics work he's not that difficult to deal with.