Volibear vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Volibear
based on 2,177 Volibear vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Volibear vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Volibear vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Volibear
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.
Volibear vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Volibear in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some vital Volibear versus Irelia matchup statistics that may help you realize the differences between the pair. As an example, Volibear’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Volibear may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Irelia..
Volibear normally has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Irelia. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Volibear and Irelia
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Who is Better, Volibear or Irelia?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Volibear usually fairs equally well when playing against Irelia, with a 50.1% win rate. As a result, Volibear makes an ok counter for Irelia.
While Volibear does have a higher win rate than Irelia, when facing one another, Volibear also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Volibear into Irelia.
Moreover, Volibear has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Irelia. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Volibear vs Irelia matchups, Volibear is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Volibear is a decent counter for Irelia. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Volibear against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Volibear to counter Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Volibear often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Irelia. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Volibear versus Irelia build consist of Spirit Visage, Thornmail, and Nashor's Tooth. When Volibear combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs Irelia than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Volibear had an average win rate of 50.1% battling Irelia with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Irelia as Volibear, Volibear players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Volibear vs Irelia face-offs, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.1% win rate overall.
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