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.
Keeping Renekton from being able to fight and gain Fury by continually harassing him will severely reduce the effectiveness of his abilities.
Pay close attention to Renekton's Fury gauge as that will usually signify when he is about to attack.
The stats shown here emphasize several valuable Irelia vs. Renekton counter stats that can help us realize the distinctions between the two. Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Renekton’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Renekton..
Irelia usually has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. On average, she takes less damage than Renekton. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Irelia usually wins when trying to fight Renekton, with a 52.1% win rate. As a result, Irelia makes a good counter for Renekton.
While Irelia does have a higher win rate than Renekton, when on opposite teams, Irelia also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Irelia into Renekton.
Furthermore, Irelia also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Renekton. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Renekton matchups, Irelia is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Irelia is an above average counter for Renekton. Focus your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Irelia against Renekton.
If you would like to truly master Irelia in order to counter Renekton 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 pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia usually gets a similar amount of CS relative to Renekton. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Irelia versus Renekton build include Sterak's Gage, Experimental Hexplate, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Irelia combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better against Renekton than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Irelia boasted an average winrate of 52.1% battling Renekton with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Renekton as Irelia, Irelia players should take 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 that we analyzed for Irelia vs Renekton battles, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.1% winrate overall.
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