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.
Spell Shields won't block the damage from Deadly Venom, but they will block the effects Twitch can trigger with it.
If you suspect Twitch has left the lane, let your teammates know that Twitch is ''MIA.''
Twitch is fragile. Work with teammates to focus on him when you're able to catch him out of Camouflage.
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several important Irelia versus Twitch matchup stats that may help us grasp the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Twitch’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Twitch..
Irelia often has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Twitch. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Irelia usually fairs equally well when playing against Twitch, with a 50.2% win rate. Therefore, Irelia makes an ok counter for Twitch.
While Irelia does have a higher winrate compared to Twitch, when facing one another, Irelia also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Irelia into Twitch.
Moreover, Irelia also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Twitch. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Twitch matchups, Irelia is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Irelia is a decent counter for Twitch. Focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Irelia against Twitch.
If you would like to truly master Irelia to counter Twitch during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia typically accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Twitch. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Irelia versus Twitch build include Sterak's Gage, Blade of The Ruined King, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs Twitch than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Irelia had an average winrate of 50.2% when countering Twitch with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Twitch as Irelia, Irelia players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Irelia vs Twitch matchups, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.2% win rate overall.
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