Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Be wary of Cassiopeia's damage potential with Twin Fang when she has you poisoned.
Turn away from Cassiopeia when she is casting Petrifying Gaze to get slowed instead of stunned.
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several significant Irelia vs. Cassiopeia matchup statistics that can help us understand the distinctions between the two. Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Cassiopeia’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Cassiopeia..
Irelia typically has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Typically, she receives more damage than Cassiopeia. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Irelia usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Cassiopeia, with a 50.1% win rate. As a result, Irelia makes an ok counter for Cassiopeia.
While Irelia does have a higher winrate than Cassiopeia, when facing one another, Irelia also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Irelia into Cassiopeia.
Moreover, Irelia has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Cassiopeia. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Cassiopeia matchups, Irelia is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Irelia is a decent counter to Cassiopeia. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Irelia against Cassiopeia.
To truly master Irelia in order to counter Cassiopeia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia often gets a similar amount of CS as Cassiopeia. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Irelia versus Cassiopeia build include Sterak's Gage, Wit's End, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Irelia incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better against Cassiopeia than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Irelia boasted an average win rate of 50.1% when playing against Cassiopeia with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Cassiopeia as Irelia, Irelia players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Irelia vs Cassiopeia LoL games, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.1% winrate overall.
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