Talk:Irelia/@comment-122.106.3.8-20111007092405/@comment-3486816-20111007184830

I think it's a case similar to Morgana being "OP" right now -- it's the meta. People want to put their offtanks top, and offtanks don't really have the tools to zone Irelia, so she's able to take advantage of her great farming and sustain there. If you put her up against someone who can push her away from your creeps, a lot of her advantage disappears.

Also, even if her damage was low, it's a lot harder to stop her from doing it. She does true damage on autoattacks, so resistances do less against her, she gets more tenacity than anyone else in the game in teamfights afaik, and she gets a lot of life back from her abilities in addition to usually being built tanky. Also, you finally get her low and you face a 2 second stun, lol. Not irredeemable, but pretty difficult to counter should she get rolling, like many offtanks.