Irelia vs Lee Sin
How to Beat Lee Sin as Irelia
based on 2,906 Irelia vs Lee Sin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Lee Sin Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Lee Sin as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Irelia vs Lee Sin Counter Stats
How to Counter Lee Sin with Irelia in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several critical Irelia versus Lee Sin counter statistics that can help us distinguish the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lee Sin’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Lee Sin..
Irelia often has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Lee Sin. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Irelia and Lee Sin
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Who is Better, Irelia or Lee Sin?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Irelia usually wins when taking on Lee Sin, with a 54.6% win rate. Therefore, Irelia makes a great counter to Lee Sin.
While Irelia does have a much higher win rate compared to Lee Sin, when facing one another, Irelia also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Irelia into Lee Sin.
Additionally, Irelia also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lee Sin. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Lee Sin matchups, Irelia is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Irelia is a great counter for Lee Sin. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Irelia against Lee Sin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Irelia in order to counter Lee Sin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia usually accumulates much more CS as Lee Sin. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs 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 numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Irelia versus Lee Sin build consist of Immortal Shieldbow, Guardian Angel, and Death's Dance. When Irelia incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better against Lee Sin than with most other common item sets. In fact, Irelia boasted an average winrate of 54.6% battling Lee Sin with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Lee Sin as Irelia, Irelia players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Irelia vs Lee Sin fights, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 54.6% winrate overall.
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