Viktor vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Viktor
based on 1,502 Viktor vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Viktor vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Viktor vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Viktor
Tips for Playing as Viktor against Irelia
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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.
Viktor vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Viktor in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some influential Viktor versus Irelia counter stats that can help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Viktor’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Irelia’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Viktor may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Irelia..
Viktor often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Typically, he takes less damage than Irelia. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Viktor and Irelia
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Who is Better, Viktor or Irelia?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Viktor usually loses when playing against Irelia, with a 47.7% win rate. As a result, Viktor makes a bad counter for Irelia.
While Viktor does have a lower win rate compared to Irelia, when on opposite teams, Viktor also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champ to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Viktor into Ireliaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Viktor has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Irelia. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Viktor vs Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Viktor is a garbage counter for Irelia. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Viktor against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Viktor to counter Irelia during both the laning 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 displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Viktor typically racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Irelia. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Viktor versus Irelia build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Irelia than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Viktor boasted an average winrate of 47.7% when countering Irelia with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Irelia as Viktor, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Viktor vs Irelia LoL games, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Irelia as Viktor are given for all skill levels combined. To scope the statistics and builds to a specific division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.