Is it just secret op or is it just me? i played against an irelia who is a "meta" pick right now and absoultely crushed. Built 
in that order and after that no one in the game could handle me especially after finishing the LichBane.
Ale non è male2 votesJust you. Just because you encounter a match-up which is not unfavourable for Gragas (and we still don't know how good was the Irelia you played against, irelia is a champ with a very high skillcap that does not perform in thee wrong hands) , does not mean that he is secret OP
360D3GR3SS1 votesI find irelia a huge pain.
ABlueQuaker1 votesHe was a good Top Lane Champion after his rework then Riot took another swing at him with the nerf bat.
ABlueQuaker1 voteshttp://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/patch/patch-413-notes#patch-gragas
This is when people stopped playing him Top Lane.
MrSlowDie1 votesI played him top lane and he seemed just mediocre top laner.
Talamare1 votesIrelia counters Gragas due to her true damage ignoring his damage reduction
Overall Gragas is a perfectly alright top laner, who really needs a slight buff to the damage reduction on his W
Ale non è male1 votesNope. Irelia is one of the champs that doesn't have decent clear early, which is the main weakness of the actual Gragas laner, a thing that in this match-up represent isntead a strength for gragas that if well used can be exploited by him. And even when she start to trade in very late laning phases, Gragas has to tool to evade Irelia trading and use his range advantage on Q to keep pushing lane
