Talk:Irelia/@comment-3514681-20120418092026/@comment-86.82.178.97-20120418132436

A succesful lvl2 gank completely screws her early game which was already weak before the nerf. Now she can't trade hits or sustain enough from hitting minions, because if she gets close to minions she gets harrassed and so on and so on. If you have good warding and map awareness you can screw her game by pushing like a madman. She will have to use bladesurge under tower to get last hits if she went tanky runes and no flat AD or ArPen. By using bladesurge to farm she will quickly run out of mana and have to back/lose farm/get harrassed. Though it depend on the enemy jungler. If the jungler has a weak start then you have no problems(in weak start I mean not too much damage output/CC) Irelia will not even be able to participate in the gank without mana/gapcloser/stun and her damage can be easily mitigated with normal solo top defensive runes which include flat armor and Mres/lvl. Really Irelia right now is in a shit spot. If you are a really good top and you see Irelia in the other team then gl losing your lane.