Chaaaaaaaarge!!! can be cast at a great range. Try and predict where the enemy team will be by the time you reach them.
The last hit of Violent Tendencies deals more damage than the first three - make sure you hit it!
Kled generates some courage by killing minions, but gets much more from fighting Champions.
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.
The stat comparisons shown here show some valuable Kled versus Irelia matchup statistics that can help us distinguish the differences between the two. For instance, Kled’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kled may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Irelia..
Kled usually has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Irelia. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kled usually fairs equally well when playing against Irelia, with a 49.1% win rate. Therefore, Kled makes an ok counter for Irelia.
While Kled does have a lower win rate compared to Irelia, when on opposite teams, Kled also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Kled into Ireliaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Kled has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kled vs Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Kled is a somewhat poor counter for Irelia. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Kled against Irelia.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kled in order to counter Irelia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kled usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Irelia. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling 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 exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Kled versus Irelia build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Eclipse, and Profane Hydra. When Kled bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Irelia than with many other common builds. In fact, Kled had an average winrate of 49.1% battling Irelia with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Irelia as Kled, Kled players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Kled vs Irelia counterpicks, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.1% win rate overall.
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