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Irelia Build

Mid Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 31,300 gamesUpdated

50.1%win rate1.4%pick10.8%ban

Who counters Irelia

Every Mid matchup for Irelia, ranked →

How to build Irelia

Chainlaced Crushers→Blade of The Ruined King→Kraken Slayer→Death's Dance

Chainlaced Crushers → Blade of The Ruined King → Kraken Slayer → Death's Dance

56.1% win rate 15% of games 3,394 games
RunesPrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityLast StandResolveBone PlatingUnflinching24% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite83%
Skills
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Bladesurge
14578
Defiant Dance
39101113
Flawless Duet
214151618
Vanguard's Edge
61217
StartDoran's BladeHealth PotionDoran's Blade, Health Potion
Full Irelia build →
50.1%win rate
Patch 26.20: 49.4% over 75,189 gamesPatch 26.21: 50.1% over 31,300 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
49.8%at Emerald+
1.4%pick rate
10.8%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
57.2%under 22 min
45.1%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 35–40m
MASTER+
Irelia champion portraitM IreliavsLux champion portraitM Lux
10 / 15 / 10

Build

Chainlaced Crushers|Blade of The Ruined King→Terminus→Wit's End→Death's Dance

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QWEQQRQEQWRWWWEREE
Loss 15–20m
MASTER+
Irelia champion portraitM IreliavsYone champion portraitM Yone
4 / 5 / 0

Build

Armored Advance|Blade of The Ruined King

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

QEWQQRQWQWW
Win 20–25m
MASTER+
Irelia champion portraitM IreliavsYone champion portraitM Yone
10 / 1 / 3

Build

Armored Advance|Blade of The Ruined King→Death's Dance→Endless Hunger

Spells & runes

FlashExhaust|

Skills

EQWQQRQWQWWRWEEER

Runes

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

Most popular 48.7% win rate · 24% of games · 7,445 games
PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityLast Stand
ResolveBone PlatingUnflinching
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 51.0% win rate · 22% of games · 6,597 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 + Ignite83%50.3%27,015 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport9%48.6%3,075 games

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

Boots
Chainlaced Crushers46%Armored Advance31%Immortal Path19%
Chainlaced Crushers most often · 48.7% win rate

Irelia build

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

  1. Blade of The Ruined King1st
  2. Kraken Slayer2nd
  3. Death's Dance3rd
12% of games that reach a third item take this path60.3% win rate2,624 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Irelia →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 31,996 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Chainlaced CrushersChainlaced Crushers
45% · 48.9% win rate
Armored AdvanceArmored Advance
31% · 51.5% win rate
Immortal PathImmortal Path
19% · 54.9% win rate
BootsBoots
2% · 32.6% win rate
Spellslinger's ShoesSpellslinger's Shoes
2% · 41.6% win rate
Gunmetal GreavesGunmetal Greaves
1% · 51.6% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Blade of The Ruined King+Chainlaced Crushers3% of games · 36.0% win rate · 1,038 games
  2. Blade of The Ruined King›Kraken Slayer+Chainlaced Crushers3% of games · 44.2% win rate · 843 games
  3. Blade of The Ruined King+Armored Advance2% of games · 37.6% win rate · 790 games
  4. Blade of The Ruined King›Wit's End+Chainlaced Crushers2% of games · 32.0% win rate · 775 games
  5. Blade of The Ruined King›Kraken Slayer+Armored Advance2% of games · 47.6% win rate · 708 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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