Talk:Irelia/@comment-75.72.55.220-20120517194742/@comment-4908764-20120518164726

Against almost any other top laner, Irelia will do poor against trade-wise for the first few levels. In some cases, you'll be able to stay within the minion waves and farm without too much harass. Other times, you have riven. Dont get near her. You will be forced to tower farm pretty much until around level 6, where you can then start pushing the lane and actually start to win trades with items being built (assuming you got a good farm, irelia is the perfect champ to practice last hitting with), and by then your jungler should have came up for ganks either way.