Irelia vs Warwick
How to Beat Warwick as Irelia
based on 4,548 Irelia vs Warwick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Warwick Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Warwick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Warwick as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Warwick
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 Warwick
Warwick's attacks heal him at low health. Save your disables to finish him off.
Warwick's ultimate cast range scales with his Move Speed.
Warwick is empowered versus low health enemies. Manage your health to keep him at bay.
Irelia vs Warwick Counter Stats
How to Counter Warwick with Irelia in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some important Irelia against Warwick counter statistics that may help you interpret the differences between the pair. As an example, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Warwick’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Warwick..
Irelia normally has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Warwick. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Irelia and Warwick
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Who is Better, Irelia or Warwick?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Irelia usually loses when playing against Warwick, with a 47.9% win rate. Therefore, Irelia makes a bad counter for Warwick.
While Irelia does have a lower win rate compared to Warwick, when facing one another, Irelia also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Irelia into Warwick.
Additionally, Irelia also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Warwick. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Warwick matchups, Warwick is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Irelia is a trash counter to Warwick. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Irelia against Warwick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Irelia in order to counter Warwick during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia usually gets much more CS compared to Warwick. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Irelia versus Warwick build consist of Guardian Angel, Wit's End, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Irelia used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Warwick than with most other common builds. In fact, Irelia boasted an average win rate of 47.9% when playing against Warwick with this counter build.
To have the best chance of crushing Warwick as Irelia, Irelia players 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 used for Irelia vs Warwick battles, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.9% win rate overall.
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