Talk:Irelia/@comment-4947142-20120416224617/@comment-4957501-20120419143857

^ Agree with Mijka. Every champion in this game has their pros and cons, their weaknesses and their strengths. Skill is defending your weaknesses as much as exploiting your strengths. Saying everyone will crush you by exploiting your weakness can be applied to EVERY champion out there, I can't fathom why people only apply this to Irelia. Her early's weak no doubt, and yes, even more so since Hiten's nerf, but there are plenty of other champions out there with weak early's and strong mid or late games.

@OP I'd say buy her. She's fun to play and it's a real experience. I like playing Katarina and Lux too, even if loads of people consider them crappy and I've carried games with both of them, so I know that opinions are subjective. Plus, look at it this way, if everyone thinks she's UP now and refuses to play her, a buff will be incoming. You can't go from one of the most played solotop's to not played at all without even Riot wondering if maybe something was wrong.