Irelia vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Irelia
based on 11,130 Irelia vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Zed Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Zed as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Zed
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
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.
Advice to Win Against Zed
Zed receives bonus effect from Attack Damage items he purchases, so Armor is super effective against him.
After Zed uses his Living Shadow, he is at his most vulnerable as his damage, slow, and mobility are both dependent upon it.
Zed's Shadow Slash can only slow you if his shadow hits you with it.
Irelia vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Irelia in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several strategic Irelia versus Zed counter stats that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zed’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Zed..
Irelia usually has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Typically, she receives more damage than Zed. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Irelia and Zed
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Who is Better, Irelia or Zed?
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 facing off against Zed, with a 53.8% win rate. As a result, Irelia makes a great counter to Zed.
While Irelia does have a higher winrate compared to Zed, when they face off with one another, Irelia also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Irelia into Zed.
Furthermore, Irelia also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zed. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Zed 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 team members during team fights.
Irelia is a great counter for Zed. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Irelia against Zed.
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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 Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia most often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Zed. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, 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 need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Irelia versus Zed build include Immortal Shieldbow, Wit's End, and Death's Dance. When Irelia incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs. Zed than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Irelia boasted an average win rate of 53.8% battling Zed with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Zed as Irelia, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Irelia vs Zed matchups, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Zed as Irelia are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.