Talk:Irelia/@comment-31.23.242.117-20120910222435/@comment-70.193.195.8-20120925191715

As a regular player of Irelia, I get a bit sick of complaints that she's too overpowered or is unbeatable in lane. Jax and Olaf both have a good chance of beating her in trades, Cho'Gath and Yorick can just out-harass her, solo top tank champions like Malphite and Nasus can slow her attack speed and not care about her true damage (also given that their normal build paths include health, which can really be an issue for her). Cho'Gath in particular deserves special mention for his Feast stacks for reasons stated previously.

In general, what you have to think of when fighting Irelia is that a lot of her damage capability comes from Hiten Style active early on, you can't kite her with great success, and that she has a lot of built in sustain; also remember that her biggest concern is getting farm. Play champions that have sustain, yet tanky in terms of health, can outdamage her whenher Hiten is active, can ignore some of her true damage somehow, or have combinations of what is listed above. There is no such thing as a hard counter to Ireliauke there are to some champions, but there are ways to make beating her and winning the lane easier and more likely.