Fiddlesticks vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Fiddlesticks
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Fiddlesticks vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Fiddlesticks vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Fiddlesticks
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.
Fiddlesticks vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Fiddlesticks in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some influential Fiddlesticks vs. Irelia matchup statistics that can help us understand the distinctions between this set of champs. Fiddlesticks’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, showing that Fiddlesticks may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Irelia. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Fiddlesticks often has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Irelia. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Fiddlesticks or Irelia?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Fiddlesticks usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Irelia, with a 50.2% win rate. Thus, Fiddlesticks makes an ok counter for Irelia.
While Fiddlesticks does have a higher win rate than Irelia, when facing one another, Fiddlesticks also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Fiddlesticks into Ireliaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Fiddlesticks has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Fiddlesticks vs Irelia matchups, Fiddlesticks is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Fiddlesticks is a decent counter to Irelia. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Fiddlesticks against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Fiddlesticks to counter Irelia during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fiddlesticks usually gets a lot less CS relative to Irelia. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to have in your Fiddlesticks versus Irelia build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Fiddlesticks used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Irelia than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Fiddlesticks had an average win rate of 50.2% when countering Irelia with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating Irelia as Fiddlesticks, Fiddlesticks players should take the First Strike, Triple Tonic, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Fiddlesticks vs Irelia counters, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.2% win rate overall.
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