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.
Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
The stats provided here show several significant Irelia vs. Elise matchup stats that can help us realize the distinctions between the two. Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Elise’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Elise..
Irelia typically has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Elise. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Irelia usually wins when taking on Elise, with a 51.8% win rate. Thus, Irelia makes a good counter for Elise.
While Irelia does have a higher winrate than Elise, when they face off with one another, Irelia also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Irelia into Elise.
Furthermore, Irelia also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Elise. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Elise matchups, Irelia is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Irelia is a decent counter for Elise. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Irelia against Elise.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Irelia to counter Elise during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia most often racks up much more CS relative to Elise. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Irelia versus Elise build include Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Death's Dance. When Irelia incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Elise than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Irelia had an average winrate of 51.8% when playing against Elise with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Elise as Irelia, Irelia players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Irelia vs Elise fights, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Elise as Irelia are shown for all skill levels, merged. To filter the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.