Tormented Shadow is an excellent farming tool if you're by yourself in a lane.
Shrewd use of Black Shield can determine the outcome of team fights.
Items that provide survivability allow Morgana to become extremely difficult to kill in conjunction with Black Shield and Soul Shackles.
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 stats provided here clarify some valuable Morgana vs. Irelia counter statistics that may help us grasp the differences between the pair. For instance, Morgana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Morgana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Irelia. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Morgana typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Irelia. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Morgana usually wins when trying to fight Irelia, with a 52.0% win rate. Thus, Morgana makes a good counter to Irelia.
While Morgana does have a higher win rate than Irelia, when they face off with one another, Morgana also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Morgana into Irelia.
Additionally, Morgana has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Irelia. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Morgana vs Irelia matchups, Morgana is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Morgana is a decent counter for Irelia. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Morgana against Irelia.
To truly master Morgana to counter Irelia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Morgana most often gets a lot less CS relative to Irelia. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Morgana versus Irelia build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Morgana used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Irelia than with most other common item sets. In fact, Morgana had an average winrate of 52.0% battling Irelia with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Irelia as Morgana, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Morgana vs Irelia matchups, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.0% win rate overall.
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