Lee Sin vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Lee Sin
based on 3,075 Lee Sin vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lee Sin vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Lee Sin vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin against Irelia
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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.
Lee Sin vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Lee Sin in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several important Lee Sin against Irelia matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Lee Sin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, showing that Lee Sin may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Irelia..
Lee Sin often has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Irelia. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lee Sin and Irelia
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Who is Better, Lee Sin or Irelia?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Lee Sin usually loses when facing off against Irelia, with a 46.2% win rate. Therefore, Lee Sin makes a bad counter for Irelia.
While Lee Sin does have a lower winrate than Irelia, when they face off with one another, Lee Sin also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Lee Sin into Irelia.
Additionally, Lee Sin also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lee Sin vs Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Lee Sin is a trash counter for Irelia. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Lee Sin against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lee Sin to counter Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lee Sin often racks up a lot less CS compared to Irelia. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Lee Sin versus Irelia build consist of Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Lee Sin combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better against Irelia than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Lee Sin had an average winrate of 46.2% battling Irelia with this build.
To have the best probability of beating Irelia as Lee Sin, Lee Sin players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Lee Sin vs Irelia clashes, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.2% winrate overall.
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