Tyr Wrote:Evidently Irelia is a hardcounter to Riven. If Riven tries to combo, you shut her down with the stun and chase her off. If Riven dashes in to stun you, your passive basically nullifies her stun in the laning phase till you get Tenacity where you then feel even less of it, so you chase her off again. I haven't tried this personally but I see a couple of high rated players do this every time.
HotshotGG: "Oh Riven top, I'll take Irelia for a free win."
I think he won that time too.
Ugh, never dash in to stun for harass. You use it to get out/avoid damage.
I wouldn't say Irelia is a hardcounter at all, but she's certainly strong against top Riven. Strong enough that playing top Riven against her isn't really worth taking Riven top because you'll spend more time poking at her and less time farming and Riven's strength is that she can do both at the same time against most champs at top AND escape ganks constantly. Same goes for Udyr. If I saw either of them going top against me in champ select, I'd swap to jungle riven if at all possible.
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