Irelia vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Irelia
based on 3,232 Irelia vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Katarina
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.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Advice to Win Against Katarina
Katarina's abilities deal magic damage, so even if she's building Attack Damage items, get magic resistance to counter her.
Try to save a disable for when Katarina uses her Death Lotus.
Irelia vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Irelia in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some strategic Irelia against Katarina counter statistics that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Katarina’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Katarina..
Irelia often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Katarina. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Irelia and Katarina
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Who is Better, Irelia or Katarina?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Irelia usually wins when trying to fight Katarina, with a 51.8% win rate. Therefore, Irelia makes a good counter to Katarina.
While Irelia does have a higher win rate than Katarina, when they face off with one another, Irelia also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Irelia into Katarina.
Furthermore, Irelia has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Katarina. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Katarina matchups, Irelia is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Irelia is a decent counter to Katarina. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Irelia against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Irelia in order to counter Katarina 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 above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia on average picks up a similar amount of CS as Katarina. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Irelia versus Katarina build consist of Immortal Shieldbow, Guardian Angel, and Death's Dance. When Irelia combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better countering Katarina than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Irelia boasted an average winrate of 51.8% when countering Katarina with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Katarina as Irelia, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Irelia vs Katarina battles, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.8% winrate overall.
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