Cleavers are a powerful tool for killing neutral monsters. Instead of returning to base, farm neutral monsters until your ultimate can heal you.
A well-timed Sadism can bait enemy champions into attacking you even when they lack the damage to finish you.
Spirit Visage will increase the healing done by your ultimate and lower cooldowns on all of your abilities.
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 stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several important Dr. Mundo versus Irelia matchup stats that may help you distinguish the differences between the two. For instance, Dr. Mundo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Irelia’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Dr. Mundo may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Irelia..
Dr. Mundo typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Irelia. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Dr. Mundo usually loses when facing off against Irelia, with a 47.7% win rate. As a result, Dr. Mundo makes a poor counter to Irelia.
While Dr. Mundo does have a lower winrate compared to Irelia, when they face off with one another, Dr. Mundo also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Dr. Mundo into Irelia.
Furthermore, Dr. Mundo also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Irelia. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Dr. Mundo vs Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Dr. Mundo is a garbage counter to Irelia. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Dr. Mundo against Irelia.
To truly master Dr. Mundo to counter Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Dr. Mundo on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Irelia. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Dr. Mundo versus Irelia build include Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Dr. Mundo included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Irelia than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Dr. Mundo had an average win rate of 47.7% when countering Irelia with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Irelia as Dr. Mundo, Dr. Mundo players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Magical Footwear runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Dr. Mundo vs Irelia matchups, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.7% winrate overall.
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