Talk:Irelia/@comment-78.8.184.133-20120525143805/@comment-75.72.55.220-20120525195310

In lane? Same as with any highly aggressive opponent, cloth armor + 5 potions and learn to farm well under the tower. Grab the philisopher's stone, abuse Q to farm up and smack him with E if he tries to get smart with you. And wait for the inevitable nerf since new guys are often a little op.

Beyond early game, in my experience it's possible to come out of a duel with the upper hand, IF you are the one to initiate it. If you get chased down and he gets stacks on you you're probably not going to come off better. If you jump on him and give him an assfull of true damage and 4 spirit blades to the face you may scare him off or even kill depending on build. But it depends. You'll probably be the dead one if you haven't built much armor for whatever reason.