Irelia vs Hwei
How to Beat Hwei as Irelia
based on 4,922 Irelia vs Hwei matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Hwei Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Hwei Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Hwei as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Hwei
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 Hwei
After Hwei paints a Torment spell he is vulnerable to being rushed down.
Hwei needs to predict your positioning and take time to cast, catch him by surprise.
Hwei's lightning is deadly but slow; it deals more damage when you are alone or unable to move.
Irelia vs Hwei Counter Stats
How to Counter Hwei with Irelia in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some strategic Irelia versus Hwei counter stats that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Hwei’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Hwei..
Irelia typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she takes more damage than Hwei. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Irelia and Hwei
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Who is Better, Irelia or Hwei?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Irelia usually wins when facing off against Hwei, with a 55.3% win rate. Therefore, Irelia makes a fantastic counter for Hwei.
While Irelia does have a much higher win rate than Hwei, when on opposite teams, Irelia also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Irelia into Hwei.
Furthermore, Irelia also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Hwei. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Hwei matchups, Irelia is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Irelia is a great counter for Hwei. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Irelia against Hwei.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Irelia to counter Hwei during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia typically picks up more CS as Hwei. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Irelia versus Hwei build include Guardian Angel, Wit's End, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Irelia included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Hwei than with most other common item sets. In fact, Irelia boasted an average winrate of 55.3% battling Hwei with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Hwei as Irelia, Irelia players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Irelia vs Hwei fights, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 55.3% winrate overall.
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