Irelia vs Soraka
How to Beat Soraka as Irelia
based on 2,336 Irelia vs Soraka matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Soraka Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Soraka as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Soraka
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 Soraka
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
Irelia vs Soraka Counter Stats
How to Counter Soraka with Irelia in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some important Irelia against Soraka counter stats that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. For instance, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Soraka’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Soraka. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Irelia usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes more damage than Soraka. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Irelia and Soraka
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Who is Better, Irelia or Soraka?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Irelia usually wins when trying to fight Soraka, with a 51.8% win rate. As a result, Irelia makes a good counter for Soraka.
While Irelia does have a higher win rate compared to Soraka, when on opposite teams, Irelia also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Irelia into Soraka.
Moreover, Irelia also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Soraka. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Soraka matchups, Irelia is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Irelia is a decent counter for Soraka. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Irelia against Soraka.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Irelia in order to counter Soraka during both the lane 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 displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia typically gets much more CS relative to Soraka. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Irelia versus Soraka build include Sterak's Gage, Blade of The Ruined King, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia included at least these three items in her build, she did much better versus Soraka than with most other typical builds. In fact, Irelia boasted an average winrate of 51.8% when countering Soraka with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Soraka 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 sets players chose for Irelia vs Soraka counter picks, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.8% winrate overall.
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