User blog comment:Leyrann/Hard counters./@comment-81.200.170.248-20120803232436/@comment-4834593-20120804161335

I'd say that, if you win your lane (which means, if you have more gold spend in useful items than your enemy), then you have countered your enemy. It will occasionally happen that for exaple Fiora does this against an AP Malphite if he doesn't buy enough armor. Then she can still kill him, or maybe the jungler, and win her lane, this way "countering" Malphite.