Talk:Irelia/@comment-5442625-20120826191216/@comment-4929329-20120826195252

I still say that Garen is a strong pick against Irelia. He has a good early game, Irelia can't stick to him, Garen can push the lane and deny her farm bBecause Garen can sit in the minion wave, and Irelia can't exactly dash behind Garen and expect good things to come from it.

On top of that, he's pretty hard to kill and since he scales with crit, he'll still be a menace to Irelia later in the game.