Sivir vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Sivir
based on 1,427 Sivir vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sivir vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Sivir vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Sivir
Tips for Playing as Sivir against Irelia
Sivir's Boomerang Blade returns to her after reaching the max range, so you can shift position to hit enemies who would otherwise have evaded it.
Try saving Spell Shield for enemy abilities that can disable you such as stuns and roots.
Ricochet resets Sivir's basic attack timer on activation, so activating this immediately after landing a normal basic attack will maximize damage output.
Advice to Win Against Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Sivir vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Sivir in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some vital Sivir vs. Irelia matchup stats that can help us distinguish the differences between this pair of champions. As an example, Sivir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Irelia’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Sivir may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Irelia..
Sivir typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Irelia. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sivir and Irelia
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Who is Better, Sivir or Irelia?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Sivir usually loses when taking on Irelia, with a 46.3% win rate. Thus, Sivir makes a bad counter for Irelia.
While Sivir does have a lower win rate than Irelia, when on opposite teams, Sivir also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Sivir into Irelia.
Furthermore, Sivir has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Irelia. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sivir vs Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Sivir is a bad counter to Irelia. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Sivir against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Sivir in order to counter Irelia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sivir often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Irelia. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Sivir versus Irelia build consist of Bloodthirster, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Sivir bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better against Irelia than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Sivir boasted an average winrate of 46.3% battling Irelia with this counter build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Irelia as Sivir, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Sivir vs Irelia face-offs, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.3% winrate overall.
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