Kayle vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Kayle
based on 3,249 Kayle vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Irelia
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
Advice to Win Against Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Kayle vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Kayle in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several important Kayle vs. Irelia counter statistics that can help you explain the distinctions between this pair of champs. Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, showing that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Irelia..
Kayle often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Irelia. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kayle and Irelia
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Who is Better, Kayle or Irelia?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kayle usually wins when playing against Irelia, with a 52.2% win rate. Therefore, Kayle makes a good counter for Irelia.
While Kayle does have a higher winrate compared to Irelia, when facing one another, Kayle also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Kayle into Ireliaas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kayle has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Irelia. 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Irelia matchups, Kayle is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Kayle is a good counter to Irelia. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Kayle against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kayle to counter Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle typically racks up a similar amount of CS as Irelia. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't have to have 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 large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Kayle versus Irelia build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Riftmaker. When Kayle incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better countering Irelia than with many other typical builds. In fact, Kayle had an average win rate of 52.2% when countering Irelia with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Irelia as Kayle, Kayle players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Kayle vs Irelia counters, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.2% winrate overall.
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