Heimerdinger vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Heimerdinger
based on 1,563 Heimerdinger vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Heimerdinger vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger against Irelia
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Heimerdinger in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some influential Heimerdinger versus Irelia counter statistics that may help you realize the differences between this pair of champs. For instance, Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Heimerdinger may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Irelia..
Heimerdinger normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives less damage than Irelia. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Heimerdinger and Irelia
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Who is Better, Heimerdinger or Irelia?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Heimerdinger usually fairs equally well when taking on Irelia, with a 50.0% win rate. Thus, Heimerdinger makes an ok counter for Irelia.
While Heimerdinger does have a higher winrate than Irelia, when on opposite teams, Heimerdinger also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Heimerdinger into Ireliaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Heimerdinger has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Heimerdinger vs Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Heimerdinger is a decent counter to Irelia. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Heimerdinger against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Heimerdinger in order 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 lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Heimerdinger on average racks up less CS relative to Irelia. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Heimerdinger versus Irelia build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Heimerdinger bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs. Irelia than with many other common builds. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average win rate of 50.0% when playing against Irelia with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Irelia as Heimerdinger, Heimerdinger players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Heimerdinger vs Irelia battles, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.0% winrate overall.
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