Irelia vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Irelia
based on 4,002 Irelia vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Zed
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 Zed
Zed's Shadow Slash can only slow you if his shadow hits you with it.
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.
Irelia vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Irelia in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some influential Irelia against Zed matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the differences between the pair. As an example, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zed’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Zed..
Irelia typically has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Zed. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Irelia and Zed
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Who is Better, Irelia or Zed?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Irelia usually wins when playing against Zed, with a 52.4% win rate. As a result, Irelia makes a good counter to Zed.
While Irelia does have a higher win rate than Zed, when facing one another, Irelia also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Irelia into Zed.
Additionally, Irelia also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zed. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall 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 allied champions during team fights.
Irelia is an above average counter to Zed. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Irelia against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Irelia in order to counter Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Zed. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Irelia versus Zed build consist of Experimental Hexplate, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Irelia used at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs. Zed than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Irelia boasted an average winrate of 52.4% battling Zed with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Zed as Irelia, Irelia players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, 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 Zed face-offs, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.4% winrate overall.
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