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Irelia champion portrait

Irelia Build

Bot Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 1,296 gamesUpdated

50.1%win rate0.1%pick10.8%ban

Who counters Irelia

How to build Irelia

Plated Steelcaps→Blade of The Ruined King→Kraken Slayer→Death's Dance

Plated Steelcaps → Blade of The Ruined King → Kraken Slayer → Death's Dance

50.3% win rate 15% of games 159 games
RunesPrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityLast StandResolveBone PlatingUnflinching28% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite47%
Skills
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Bladesurge
14578
Defiant Dance
39101213
Flawless Duet
214151718
Vanguard's Edge
61116
StartDoran's BladeHealth PotionDoran's Blade, Health Potion
Full Irelia build →

Best supports for Irelia

Who Irelia has the best record alongside in the bot lane this patch.

Worst supports for Irelia

Who Irelia has the worst record alongside in the bot lane this patch.

  • Sylas champion portraitSylas34.5%55 games · 26.20
  • Nautilus champion portraitNautilus44.6%101 games · 26.20
  • Swain champion portraitSwain41.9%43 games · 26.20
  • Zyra champion portraitZyra45.7%46 games · 26.20
  • Karma champion portraitKarma46.5%43 games · 26.20

Each pairing is weighed by the games behind it, so a lucky handful cannot top either list.

Pairings are only half a team. Team Comp Tuesdays builds full five-champion compositions around picks like this.

50.1%win rate
Patch 26.20: 49.1% over 3,120 gamesPatch 26.21: 50.1% over 1,296 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
49.4%at Emerald+
0.1%pick rate
10.8%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
60.1%under 22 min
43.0%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.

Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Irelia champion portraitB Irelia+Sona champion portraitS SonavsSenna champion portraitB Senna+Braum champion portraitS Braum
7 / 12 / 6

Build

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

Spells & runes

ExhaustFlash|

Skills

QEWQQRQWQWRWWEE
Loss 15–20m
MASTER+
Irelia champion portraitB Irelia+Thresh champion portraitS ThreshvsCaitlyn champion portraitB Caitlyn+Lux champion portraitS Lux
5 / 11 / 0

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Blade of The Ruined King→Kraken Slayer

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QEWQQRQWQ
Win 30–35m
MASTER+
Irelia champion portraitB Irelia+Nami champion portraitS NamivsKai'Sa champion portraitB Kai'Sa+Zilean champion portraitS Zilean
6 / 5 / 11

Build

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

Spells & runes

ExhaustFlash|

Skills

EQWQQRQWQWRWWEE

Runes

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

Most popular 46.6% win rate · 28% of games · 298 games
PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityLast Stand
ResolveBone PlatingUnflinching
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 50.8% win rate · 17% of games · 185 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 + Ignite47%44.6%621 games
  • ExhaustFlashExhaust + Flash30%52.1%397 games

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

Boots
Plated Steelcaps50%Mercury's Treads28%Gluttonous Greaves13%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 48.4% win rate

Irelia build

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

  1. Blade of The Ruined King1st
  2. Kraken Slayer2nd
  3. Death's Dance3rd
17% of games that reach a third item take this path45.6% win rate180 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Irelia →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 1,319 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
49% · 48.3% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
28% · 51.5% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
13% · 51.2% win rate
Berserker's GreavesBerserker's Greaves
4% · 53.2% win rate
BootsBoots
3% · 57.1% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Blade of The Ruined King›Kraken Slayer›Death's Dance+Plated Steelcaps5% of games · 41.7% win rate · 60 games
  2. Blade of The Ruined King›Kraken Slayer+Plated Steelcaps3% of games · 40.5% win rate · 42 games
  3. Blade of The Ruined King+Plated Steelcaps3% of games · 36.4% win rate · 33 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. The best and worst supports are ranked the same way, against Irelia's average instead of 50%.

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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