Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Gwen needs to attack a few times to set up her damage, so try to get the jump on her.
Gwen's Hallowed Mist shroud will only follow her once, after that it will dissipate when she leaves.
Gwen must hit something to recast her Ultimate, try to evade her between casts.
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several valuable Irelia versus Gwen counter stats that can help you figure out the differences between the two. As an example, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Gwen’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Gwen..
Irelia typically has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Gwen. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Irelia usually wins when playing against Gwen, with a 52.2% win rate. As a result, Irelia makes a good counter for Gwen.
While Irelia does have a higher winrate compared to Gwen, when they face off with one another, Irelia also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Irelia into Gwen.
Moreover, Irelia has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gwen. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Gwen matchups, Irelia is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Irelia is an above average counter to Gwen. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Irelia against Gwen.
To learn all of the intricacies of Irelia to counter Gwen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia typically accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Gwen. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Irelia versus Gwen build consist of Jak'Sho, The Protean, Wit's End, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Irelia incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better countering Gwen than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Irelia had an average winrate of 52.2% battling Gwen with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Gwen as Irelia, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Irelia vs Gwen fights, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Gwen as Irelia are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier on the page.