Xerath vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Xerath
based on 3,926 Xerath vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xerath vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Xerath vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Xerath
Tips for Playing as Xerath against Irelia
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
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.
Xerath vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Xerath in LoL
The stats provided here show several strategic Xerath against Irelia matchup statistics that can help you distinguish the differences between the pair. As an example, Xerath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, showing that Xerath may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Irelia. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Xerath usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Irelia. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Xerath and Irelia
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Who is Better, Xerath or Irelia?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Xerath usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Irelia, with a 49.9% win rate. Therefore, Xerath makes an ok counter to Irelia.
While Xerath does have a lower winrate than Irelia, when they face off with one another, Xerath also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Xerath into Ireliaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Xerath also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Irelia. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Xerath vs Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Xerath is a somewhat poor counter for Irelia. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Xerath against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Xerath in order to counter Irelia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xerath often gets less CS compared to Irelia. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Xerath versus Irelia build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff, and Luden's Companion. When Xerath incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when facing Irelia than with most other common builds. In fact, Xerath had an average win rate of 49.9% when playing against Irelia with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Irelia as Xerath, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Xerath vs Irelia counters, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.9% win rate overall.
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