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.
Mordekaiser builds up a powerful damage aura when fighting champions, so keep your distance.
Realm of Death will cut you off from your teammates completely. Try to save mobility spells to escape Mordekaiser once inside
Damage he deals can be converted into a large shield, and consumed for health
The stats shown on this page emphasize some strategic Irelia against Mordekaiser counter stats that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Mordekaiser’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Mordekaiser..
Irelia typically has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Mordekaiser. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Irelia usually loses when playing against Mordekaiser, with a 46.5% win rate. As a result, Irelia makes a poor counter for Mordekaiser.
While Irelia does have a lower winrate than Mordekaiser, when on opposite teams, Irelia also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Irelia into Mordekaiser.
Moreover, Irelia has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Mordekaiser. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Mordekaiser matchups, Mordekaiser is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Irelia is a terribly counter for Mordekaiser. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Irelia against Mordekaiser.
To truly master Irelia in order to counter Mordekaiser during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Mordekaiser. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Irelia versus Mordekaiser build consist of Sterak's Gage, Blade of The Ruined King, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better versus Mordekaiser than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Irelia had an average winrate of 46.5% when playing against Mordekaiser with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Mordekaiser as Irelia, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, 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 Mordekaiser matchups, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.5% win rate overall.
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