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.
Jayce is strong in the early game. If he gains the advantage, play defensively.
Jayce can attack in melee or at range. Pay attention to his stance and weapon color to know how he is going to attack.
If you see Jayce drop his Acceleration Gate, be careful, he is probably about to cast Shock Blast.
The stats shown on this page show several significant Irelia vs. Jayce counter statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jayce’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Jayce..
Irelia usually has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. On average, she receives more damage than Jayce. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Irelia usually wins when facing off against Jayce, with a 53.9% win rate. As a result, Irelia makes a great counter for Jayce.
While Irelia does have a higher winrate compared to Jayce, when on opposite teams, Irelia also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Irelia into Jayce.
Additionally, Irelia has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jayce. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Jayce matchups, Irelia is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Irelia is a great counter to Jayce. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Irelia against Jayce.
To truly master Irelia in order to counter Jayce during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Jayce. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Irelia versus Jayce build include Guardian Angel, Blade of The Ruined King, and Death's Dance. When Irelia included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better against Jayce than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Irelia had an average win rate of 53.9% when countering Jayce with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Jayce as Irelia, you 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 used for Irelia vs Jayce matchups, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Jayce as Irelia are given for every ranked division. To narrow the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you should use the selection menu above.