User blog comment:Leyrann/Hard counters./@comment-68.100.228.172-20120728155121/@comment-4834593-20120728165550

You missed my last line:

"While picking the right champion is of course also important, you will still lose your lane if you don't buy those items that counter your enemy, while he does."

I did not say it is totally useless, I only said that items normally do a much bigger job than champions. Also notice that, in tournament games, champions are more banned because players from the enemy team are good with them, than because they are bad at countering this champions. I'd say only Shen is an exception to that, because you just can't really counter him.