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Irelia champion portrait

Irelia Build

Top Tier 1

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 45,256 gamesUpdated

50.6%win rate2.0%pick10.8%ban

Who counters Irelia

Every Top matchup for Irelia, ranked →

How to build Irelia

Plated Steelcaps→Blade of The Ruined King→Hullbreaker→Wit's End

Plated Steelcaps → Blade of The Ruined King → Hullbreaker → Wit's End

56.3% win rate 23% of games 7,430 games
RunesPrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityLast StandResolveBone PlatingUnflinching26% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite80%
Skills
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Bladesurge
14578
Defiant Dance
39101213
Flawless Duet
214151718
Vanguard's Edge
61116
StartDoran's BowHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Bow, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Irelia build →
50.6%win rate
Patch 26.20: 50.0% over 106,871 gamesPatch 26.21: 50.6% over 45,256 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
50.9%at Emerald+
2.0%pick rate
10.8%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
57.3%under 22 min
45.5%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Irelia champion portraitT IreliavsMalphite champion portraitT Malphite
5 / 7 / 7

Build

Mercury's Treads|Blade of The Ruined King→Kraken Slayer

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QEWQQRQWQWRWWEE
Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Irelia champion portraitT IreliavsWarwick champion portraitT Warwick
9 / 6 / 3

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Blade of The Ruined King→Hullbreaker→Death's Dance

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QEWQQRQWQRWWWEERE
Win 15–20m
MASTER+
Irelia champion portraitT IreliavsJax champion portraitT Jax
4 / 3 / 10

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Blade of The Ruined King→Hullbreaker

Spells & runes

FlashExhaust|

Skills

EQWQQRQWQWRWEW

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 49.7% win rate · 26% of games · 11,468 games
PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityLast Stand
ResolveBone PlatingUnflinching
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 51.3% win rate · 24% of games · 10,759 games
PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityLast Stand
InspirationJack Of All TradesTriple Tonic
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite80%50.5%36,941 games
  • ExhaustFlashExhaust + Flash12%52.0%5,691 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Plated Steelcaps63%Mercury's Treads29%Boots3%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 50.7% win rate

Irelia build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Blade of The Ruined King1st
  2. Hullbreaker2nd
  3. Wit's End3rd
9% of games that reach a third item take this path57.3% win rate2,703 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Irelia →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 45,533 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
62% · 51.0% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
29% · 51.6% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
3% · 58.7% win rate
BootsBoots
3% · 40.9% win rate
No bootsNo boots
2% · 43.5% win rate
Berserker's GreavesBerserker's Greaves
1% · 44.7% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Blade of The Ruined King›Hullbreaker+Plated Steelcaps6% of games · 44.5% win rate · 2,720 games
  2. Blade of The Ruined King+Plated Steelcaps5% of games · 36.4% win rate · 2,492 games
  3. Blade of The Ruined King›Hullbreaker›Death's Dance+Plated Steelcaps3% of games · 56.5% win rate · 1,251 games
  4. Blade of The Ruined King›Hullbreaker›Wit's End+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 56.8% win rate · 1,026 games
  5. Blade of The Ruined King›Kraken Slayer+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 42.6% win rate · 986 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Irelia against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Irelia's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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