Anivia vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Anivia
based on 1,515 Anivia vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Anivia vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Anivia vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Anivia
Tips for Playing as Anivia against Irelia
Timing Flash Frost with Frostbite can lead to devastating combinations.
It can be very difficult for enemy champions to kill her egg early in game. Seize the advantage by playing aggressively.
Anivia is extremely reliant on Mana for Glacial Storm. Try getting items with Mana or going for a Crest of the Ancient Golem buff on Summoner's Rift.
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.
Anivia vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Anivia in LoL
The stats shown here feature several significant Anivia vs. Irelia matchup statistics that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Anivia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Anivia may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Irelia..
Anivia usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes less damage than Irelia. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Anivia and Irelia
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Who is Better, Anivia or Irelia?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Anivia usually loses when trying to fight Irelia, with a 48.8% win rate. As a result, Anivia makes a poor counter for Irelia.
While Anivia does have a lower winrate compared to Irelia, when facing one another, Anivia also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Anivia into Ireliaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Anivia also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Anivia vs Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Anivia is a somewhat poor counter for Irelia. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Anivia against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Anivia to counter Irelia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Anivia on average accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Irelia. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to have in your Anivia versus Irelia build include Seraph's Embrace, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Rod of Ages. When Anivia bought at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better versus Irelia than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Anivia had an average winrate of 48.8% when playing against Irelia with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating Irelia as Anivia, you should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Anivia vs Irelia battles, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.8% winrate overall.
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