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How to Win Irelia vs Morgana Counter MatchupIrelia is in the b tier of champions

Irelia vs Morgana

How to Beat Morgana as Irelia in LoLIrelia is in the b tier of champions
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How to Beat Morgana as Irelia

based on 5,088 Irelia vs Morgana matchups
Win Rate
48 %
K/D/A
1.75
Pick Rate
5 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

We get our matchup statistics from the millions of ranked LoL games that we evaluate each and every week. Our guide on how to beat Morgana as Irelia resulted from an analysis of 5088 ranked rounds where both champions engaged each other. This particular champion pairing is relatively uncommon. Irelia encounters Morgana in only 5.0% of her rounds.

Irelia vs Morgana Matchup Summary

Unfortunately, Irelia has done a below average job of countering Morgana. Typically, she wins a lowly 48.0% of games the champions clash against each other in. In Irelia vs Morgana games, Irelia’s side is 0.0% more likely to earn first blood. This indicates that she most likely will be able to get first blood versus Morgana.

Best Irelia vs Morgana Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's ShieldHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
PickaxeRecurve Bow

Core Irelia Items

~22 Mins
Sterak's GageWit's EndBlade of The Ruined King

Optional Items

Guardian AngelMaw of MalmortiusSundered SkyTitanic Hydra

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerteleport summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Irelia to level upq
>
Second ability for Irelia to level upw
>
Last skill for Irelia to max oute

Runes

PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityLast Stand
ResolveBone PlatingUnflinching
Attack SpeedAdaptive ForceMagic Resist
Irelia's passive ability p
Irelia's q ability q
Irelia's w ability w
Irelia's e ability e
Irelia's ultimate ability r
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Q
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E
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Q
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Q
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Guide to Countering Morgana as Irelia

Tips for Playing as Irelia against Morgana

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 Morgana

Tormented Shadow deals tons of damage to units missing large amounts of Health. When low on Health, be wary of Morgana's attempts to trap you within its reach.

Black Shield makes Morgana immune to disabling effects, but can be broken with magic damage.

Morgana often needs to land Dark Binding to setup her other attacks. Use your minions as shields against Dark Binding.

Irelia vs Morgana Counter Stats

Irelia Image
Win Rate
48 %
VS
Win Rate
52 %
Morgana Image
7.4
< Kills >
3.7
7.1
< Deaths >
5.7
5
< Assists >
12.3
1.67
< Killing Sprees >
0.8
206
< Minions Killed >
54
0.1
< Dragons Killed >
0.16
0.46
< Inhibitors >
0.45
16,478
< Physical Damage >
871
6,130
< Magic Damage >
15,094
772
< True Damage >
1,096
23,381
< Damage Dealt >
17,061
32,022
< Damage Taken >
20,963
13,026
< Gold Earned >
9,619
2.26
< Towers >
1.68
0.03
< Baron Takedowns >
0.04
10,993
< Total Healing >
4,538
15,257
< Experience >
11,667
17
< Vision Score >
51
8
< Wards Placed >
22
111
< Time Dealing CC >
135

How to Counter Morgana with Irelia in LoL

The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some influential Irelia versus Morgana matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Morgana’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Morgana. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.

Irelia usually has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Morgana. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.

Differences between Irelia and Morgana

Damage Types Compared

Irelia
Morgana
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Irelia
Morgana

Who is Better, Irelia or Morgana?

Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Irelia usually loses when taking on Morgana, with a 48.0% win rate. As a result, Irelia makes a bad counter for Morgana.

While Irelia does have a lower win rate than Morgana, when facing one another, Irelia also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Irelia into Morgana.

Furthermore, Irelia has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Morgana. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.

While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Morgana matchups, Morgana is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.

Irelia is a trash counter to Morgana. Focus your play on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Irelia against Morgana.

Additional Information for Irelia Players

How We Calculated Our Irelia vs Morgana Build and Stats

For this guide on countering Morgana as Irelia, we analyzed 5,088 matchups from recent LoL games. We use rigorous data cleaning and processing methods to ensure that our counter stats are of the highest quality. You can rest assured that the recommended build to counter Morgana as Irelia comes from real data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view the most relevant stats and items to your rank.

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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 Morgana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.

Irelia typically gets much more CS as Morgana. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.

The top items to focus on in your Irelia versus Morgana build consist of Sterak's Gage, Wit's End, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Irelia bought at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs Morgana than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Irelia had an average winrate of 48.0% battling Morgana with these items in her kit.

To have the best likelihood of annihilating Morgana 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 builds that we analyzed for Irelia vs Morgana counter picks, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.0% win rate overall.

If you would like to see Irelia versus Morgana tips and counter builds for a a distinct player tier, please select one from the selection menu displayed above. At first, the stats and strategies given are computed using all rounds completed with both champions.