Hitting multiple champions with the same ability can help quickly activate Darkness Rise.
Offense is your defense. Keep fighting to build up larger Indestructible shields.
Use Realm of Death on a low health enemy to guarantee the kill and keep their stats for the rest of a teamfight.
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 provided here highlight several critical Mordekaiser versus Irelia counter statistics that may help us understand the differences between these two champs. For instance, Mordekaiser’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Irelia’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Mordekaiser may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Irelia..
Mordekaiser normally has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Irelia. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Mordekaiser usually wins when trying to fight Irelia, with a 53.5% win rate. Thus, Mordekaiser makes a great counter for Irelia.
While Mordekaiser does have a higher win rate than Irelia, when facing one another, Mordekaiser also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Mordekaiser into Irelia.
Moreover, Mordekaiser also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Mordekaiser vs Irelia matchups, Mordekaiser is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Mordekaiser is a great counter to Irelia. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Mordekaiser against Irelia.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Mordekaiser to counter Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Mordekaiser on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as Irelia. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Mordekaiser versus Irelia build include Spirit Visage, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Riftmaker. When Mordekaiser incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better against Irelia than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Mordekaiser boasted an average winrate of 53.5% when playing against Irelia with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Irelia as Mordekaiser, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Revitalize, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Mordekaiser vs Irelia clashes, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.5% winrate overall.
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