Talk:Irelia/@comment-5185966-20130803061813/@comment-5605969-20130804001626

Ok. I read your post. I also main Irelia, and I kinda have to disagree on some of the aspects you say.

"- A sleeper champion, (not many people play her even though she is strong, is a pro uses her, everyone will) dominates most match ups in top lane."

This is the main part I wanna discuss. Most of the top lane champs are actually hard to deal with as Irelia, has she has no actual ranged poke outside ulti, and no defense steroids, although she has sustain. VS champs with sustain (Trundle and Warwick) she cannot win trades, and will lose prolonged fights. She also has trouble vs Darius and Garen since these have mid ranged pokes (their spins) and one has dmg increase (darius passive) other passive sustain and a defense steroid. And these 2 will kill you once they reach 6. Irelia can duel with garen if he doesn't kite her and instead goes 1 vs1, but she wont win vs darius.

Basically, she wins easy vs squishies like kha, teemo and zed, but vs the most common top picks she will have a hard time. She does however scale better than most top laners and reaches late game better as well. She can snowball like mad and can duel with most of these guys once she gets a few items (still can't beat darius i think).

"Low play rate, so most teams you face will engage her thinking she is easy to kill when this only makes her stronger."

I think everyone had a shared experienced vs that intermediate co-op vs AI irelia that went 20/0 at the end of the game (or maybe that's just me when i was level 15) The point is, if you are low elo, she will be easy to own with, but if you are medium/high elo, you won't be so lucky. (of course if you have no experience vs X champ, and dont know how he normally plays, your in for a bad time)

So to finalize, she's great, and a great late game scaler, but you'll regret if you go all Leroy Jenkins on the enemy Jax. And don't even try to poke Nunu, just freeze lane and hope for the best.