Talk:Irelia/@comment-87.143.219.25-20120329220348/@comment-2124153-20120329224443

I wouldn't say that Tryndamere cleanly beats Irelia 1v1, because you're right that she can build to counter him specifically with AS reduction and Thornmail. But I think that he's a better 1v1 champion in general, just due to how much damage he can throw out in a short period of time.

Irelia's damage output kind of falls off in extremely long games, because Hiten Style's true damage doesn't scale off of anything except AS. But hypercarries like Tryndamere are able to leverage the AS/AD/crit trifecta of doom, and Tryn specifically doesn't even need to build much in the way of defenses.