Irelia vs Kayn
How to Beat Kayn as Irelia
based on 4,897 Irelia vs Kayn matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Kayn Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayn as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Kayn
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 Kayn
When Kayn is in terrain near you, you will get a visual warning on the edge of the terrain he's in.
Umbral Trespass requires Kayn to damage a target first. Try to dodge Blade's Reach to deny him a long range cast of Umbral Trespass.
Damage Kayn while he's in Shadow Step to shorten its duration, or apply hard crowd control (stun, charm, knockup, etc) to end Shadow Step immediately.
Irelia vs Kayn Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayn with Irelia in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some influential Irelia against Kayn counter stats that can help you appreciate the differences between the two. For instance, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kayn’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kayn..
Irelia typically has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. On average, she takes less damage than Kayn. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Irelia and Kayn
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Who is Better, Irelia or Kayn?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Irelia usually wins when playing against Kayn, with a 52.0% win rate. As a result, Irelia makes a good counter to Kayn.
While Irelia does have a higher win rate compared to Kayn, when facing one another, Irelia also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Irelia into Kayn.
Moreover, Irelia also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kayn. 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Kayn matchups, Irelia is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Irelia is a decent counter to Kayn. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Irelia against Kayn.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Irelia to counter Kayn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia typically accumulates much more CS as Kayn. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Irelia versus Kayn build consist of Blade of The Ruined King, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when facing Kayn than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Irelia had an average winrate of 52.0% battling Kayn with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Kayn as Irelia, you should take 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 sets that we analyzed for Irelia vs Kayn counterpicks, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.0% win rate overall.
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