Hwei vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Hwei
based on 4,922 Hwei vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Hwei vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Hwei vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Hwei
Tips for Playing as Hwei against Irelia
Calm down, breathe, and focus.
Each stroke requires precision and intention.
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.
Hwei vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Hwei in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several vital Hwei versus Irelia matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the differences between this set of champs. For instance, Hwei’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Irelia’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Hwei may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Irelia. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Hwei normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than their counter does. Typically, they receives less damage than Irelia. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Hwei and Irelia
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Who is Better, Hwei or Irelia?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Hwei usually loses when playing against Irelia, with a 44.7% win rate. As a result, Hwei makes a poor counter for Irelia.
While Hwei does have a much lower win rate than Irelia, when on opposite teams, Hwei also has a much greater difficulty level that makes them a more time consuming character to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Hwei into Ireliaas their relative depth means you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Hwei has some amount of CC and other utility, 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 isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Hwei vs Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Hwei is a bad counter for Irelia. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Hwei against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Hwei in order to counter Irelia during both the lane 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 mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hwei often gets less CS relative to Irelia. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Hwei versus Irelia build include Cryptbloom, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Hwei bought at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better when facing Irelia than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Hwei had an average win rate of 44.7% battling Irelia with these items in their kit.
To have the best probability of defeating Irelia as Hwei, Hwei players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Gathering Storm, and Manaflow Band runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Hwei vs Irelia fights, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 44.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Irelia as Hwei are given for all ranked divisions. To filter the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.