Irelia Wild Rift Counter: Champions & Tips

Irelia counter Wild Rift stats: All the Irelia info you could want with counter picks, general counters, item counter, lane synergy and more!

The Will of the Blades

Role: Fighter / Assassin | Win rate: 50.9% | Tier: S

Irelia is not a strong player in the early game, she needs time to accumulate and increase her strength later. To counter Irelia, you should use the strategy of overwhelming her from the beginning. Use strong attacking champions and gank often to destroy Irelia.

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Champion Counter Irelia

Discover all Top champions who counter Irelia.

Mid

If you are a ranged champion, take advantage of the ranged advantage to poke and harass Irelia.

Avoid fighting Irelia when she has passive fully stacked. Do not stand near low-health soldiers because Irelia can use Bladesurge on them and then attack you.

Apply strategy “strike quickly, shorten” and do not fight Irelia for long.

Top

At Top, you should use champions with strong fighting ability at the beginning of the game. Apply aggressive playing strategies, keeping minions close to your map and inviting the jungle to gank when Irelia moves up to farm.

Bot

Always keep a safe distance and poke from afar in front of Irelia. Stay away from soldiers and always have Flash in you so you can escape whenever she gets close.

Support

You need to protect your teammates when Irelia attacks. Use CC skills to catch Irelia, preventing her from getting close and dealing damage.

Jungler

Jungler will play an extremely important role in countering Irelia. Irelia will become useless when left behind and the only thing you need to do is gank her. When you see Irelia push up, that is your opportunity to combine with your teammates to destroy her.

Item Counter Irelia

Irelia wild rift counter items list:

Irelia deals mostly Physical Damage, so buying armor is very effective against her. Such as: Thornmail, Dead Man’s Plate, Randuin’s Omen, Frozen Heart, Amaranth’s Twinguard, Iceborn Gauntlet, Plated Steelcaps, Guardian Angel.

Thornmail will inflict Grievous Wounds on Irelia when she attacks you. This is the best item used to counter champions with low HP.

Use Frozen Heart to reduce Irelia’s attack speed.

When stunned by Irelia, use Quicksilver Enchant to remove it.

Use Stasis Enchant to dodge Irelia’s skills and prolong your survival.

How to counter Irelia?

Irelia wild rift counter tips:

Apply early pressure to leave Irelia behind.

When Irelia has accumulated enough passives. Avoid fighting her at this time.

When Irelia uses Defiant Dance, she will receive less physical damage. You should attack her with magic damage.

When using Bladesurge, Irelia will regain this skill if the target is marked or destroyed. You should not stand near low-health or marked soldiers.

Irelia’s Flawless Duet skill will stun enemies. You can dodge it with flash. Besides, after Irelia uses this skill, you can counterattack her.

Avoid fighting too close together because it will create conditions for Irelia to use her ultimate on multiple targets.

Avoid prolonged trades. Keep them quick and decisive.

Use CC skills against Irelia.

Burst damage will quickly defeat Irelia in the early stages.

Strengths:

• High mobility.
• Easy to farm.
• Strong teamfighting.
• Strong burst.
• Can stun.
• High outplay potential.
• Good snowball.

Weaknesses:

• Low hp at level 1.
• Easily far behind.
• Vulnerable to any CC.
• Hard to master.
• Requires minions for outplays.

Irelia Matchups

Matchups	Win Rate	Game
vs Irelia vs Lucian	66.89%	148
vs Irelia vs Xin Zhao	60.68%	117
vs Irelia vs Ahri	59.35%	123
vs Irelia vs Jayce	56.79%	8322
vs Irelia vs Kayn	55.41%	148
vs Irelia vs Dr. Mundo	56.21%	879
vs Irelia vs Zed	55.96%	218
vs Irelia vs Varus	55.96%	1376
vs Irelia vs Graves	55.05%	218
vs Irelia vs Yone	54.91%	7423
vs Irelia vs Akshan	54.63%	410
vs Irelia vs Akali	54.29%	2470
vs Irelia vs Gwen	54.10%	1987
vs Irelia vs Karma	53.96%	139
vs Irelia vs Gragas	53.87%	789