Irelia vs Lee Sin
How to Beat Lee Sin as Irelia
based on 3,075 Irelia vs Lee Sin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Lee Sin Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Lee Sin Counter Build
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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.
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 Lee Sin
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
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 stats provided here emphasize some vital Irelia vs. Lee Sin matchup statistics that may help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lee Sin’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Lee Sin..
Irelia often has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Lee Sin. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Irelia and Lee Sin
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Who is Better, Irelia or Lee Sin?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Irelia usually wins when trying to fight Lee Sin, with a 53.8% win rate. Therefore, Irelia makes a great counter to Lee Sin.
While Irelia does have a higher winrate compared to Lee Sin, when on opposite teams, Irelia also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Irelia into Lee Sin.
Furthermore, Irelia also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lee Sin. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Lee Sin 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Irelia is a great counter to Lee Sin. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Irelia against Lee Sin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Irelia to counter Lee Sin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia usually racks up much more CS as Lee Sin. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Irelia versus Lee Sin build include Sterak's Gage, Wit's End, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Irelia combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better versus Lee Sin than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Irelia had an average winrate of 53.8% when countering Lee Sin with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Lee Sin as Irelia, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Irelia vs Lee Sin clashes, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Lee Sin as Irelia are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.