Hawkshot reveals units in brush. If a team fight is occuring in the jungle it can give you a significant advantage.
Volley arrows are blocked by the first enemy they hit, so keep your distance to avoid having them all absorbed by enemy frontliners.
Try to fire Enchanted Crystal Arrow in the same direction enemies are moving, so it is more likely to hit.
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.
The stats shown on this page show several valuable Ashe versus Irelia counter statistics that can help you grasp the distinctions between the two. Ashe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ashe may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Irelia. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Ashe usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Irelia. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ashe usually loses when playing against Irelia, with a 48.3% win rate. As a result, Ashe makes a bad counter for Irelia.
While Ashe does have a lower winrate than Irelia, when on opposite teams, Ashe also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Ashe into Irelia.
Furthermore, Ashe has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Irelia. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ashe vs Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Ashe is a somewhat poor counter to Irelia. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Ashe against Irelia.
To truly master Ashe in order to counter Irelia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ashe on average accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Irelia. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Ashe versus Irelia build include Trinity Force, Runaan's Hurricane, and Terminus. When Ashe combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better countering Irelia than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Ashe boasted an average win rate of 48.3% battling Irelia with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Irelia as Ashe, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Ashe vs Irelia clashes, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.3% win rate overall.
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