Irelia vs Darius
How to Beat Darius as Irelia
based on 3,547 Irelia vs Darius matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Darius Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Darius Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Darius as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Darius
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.
Advice to Win Against Darius
When Darius's axe grab is on cooldown, he is vulnerable to harassment attacks.
Darius's ability to escape from fights is limited. If you have an advantage against him, press your lead.
Irelia vs Darius Counter Stats
How to Counter Darius with Irelia in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several strategic Irelia versus Darius matchup stats that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between these two champions. Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Darius’s ratio of NaN, showing that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Darius..
Irelia typically has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Darius. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Irelia and Darius
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Who is Better, Irelia or Darius?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Irelia usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Darius, with a 49.7% win rate. Therefore, Irelia makes an ok counter for Darius.
While Irelia does have a lower winrate than Darius, when on opposite teams, Irelia also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Irelia into Darius.
Additionally, Irelia also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Darius. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Darius matchups, Darius 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.
Irelia is a somewhat poor counter for Darius. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Irelia against Darius.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Irelia in order to counter Darius during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia typically picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Darius. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, 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 many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Irelia versus Darius build consist of Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Titanic Hydra. When Irelia used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better versus Darius than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Irelia boasted an average win rate of 49.7% when playing against Darius with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Darius as Irelia, you should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Irelia vs Darius LoL games, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.7% win rate overall.
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