Brand vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Brand
based on 5,997 Brand vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Irelia
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Advice to Win Against Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Brand vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Brand in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some valuable Brand vs. Irelia matchup stats that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Irelia. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Brand typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he receives less damage than Irelia. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Brand and Irelia
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Who is Better, Brand or Irelia?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Brand usually wins when trying to fight Irelia, with a 51.0% win rate. Therefore, Brand makes a good counter to Irelia.
While Brand does have a higher winrate than Irelia, when facing one another, Brand also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Brand into Irelia.
Furthermore, Brand also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Brand vs Irelia matchups, Brand is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Brand is a decent counter to Irelia. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Brand against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Brand to counter Irelia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand usually racks up a lot less CS compared to Irelia. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Brand versus Irelia build consist of Cryptbloom, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Irelia than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Brand had an average win rate of 51.0% when playing against Irelia with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Irelia as Brand, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Brand vs Irelia counter picks, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.0% winrate overall.
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