Irelia vs Blitzcrank
How to Beat Blitzcrank as Irelia
based on 3,851 Irelia vs Blitzcrank matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Blitzcrank Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Blitzcrank Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Blitzcrank as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Blitzcrank
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Advice to Win Against Blitzcrank
Staying behind creeps can prevent you from being Rocket Grabbed. Blitzcrank's Rocket Grab only pulls the first enemy target it encounters.
Blitzcrank's passive Mana Barrier grants him a shield when he is low on health.
Irelia vs Blitzcrank Counter Stats
How to Counter Blitzcrank with Irelia in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several important Irelia against Blitzcrank matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences between the two. As an example, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Blitzcrank’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Blitzcrank. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Irelia usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives more damage than Blitzcrank. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Irelia and Blitzcrank
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Who is Better, Irelia or Blitzcrank?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Irelia usually loses when taking on Blitzcrank, with a 48.4% win rate. As a result, Irelia makes a bad counter for Blitzcrank.
While Irelia does have a lower win rate than Blitzcrank, when on opposite teams, Irelia also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Irelia into Blitzcrank.
Moreover, Irelia has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Blitzcrank. 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Blitzcrank matchups, Blitzcrank is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Irelia is a somewhat poor counter to Blitzcrank. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Irelia against Blitzcrank.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Irelia in order to counter Blitzcrank during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia on average racks up much more CS compared to Blitzcrank. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Irelia versus Blitzcrank build include Blade of The Ruined King, Terminus, and Death's Dance. When Irelia combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when facing Blitzcrank than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Irelia boasted an average winrate of 48.4% battling Blitzcrank with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Blitzcrank as Irelia, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Irelia vs Blitzcrank counters, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.4% winrate overall.
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