Naafiri vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Naafiri
based on 1,490 Naafiri vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Naafiri vs Irelia Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Naafiri against Irelia
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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.
Naafiri vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Naafiri in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some valuable Naafiri versus Irelia counter statistics that may help us grasp the distinctions between the pair. Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Irelia..
Naafiri often has a similar longest killing spree as their opponent does. Commonly, they takes less damage than Irelia. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Naafiri or Irelia?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Naafiri usually fairs equally well when facing off against Irelia, with a 49.8% win rate. Thus, Naafiri makes an ok counter to Irelia.
While Naafiri does have a lower winrate than Irelia, when on opposite teams, Naafiri also has a lower learning curve that makes them a less difficult character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Naafiri into Irelia.
Moreover, Naafiri also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Irelia. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Naafiri is a somewhat poor counter to Irelia. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Naafiri against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Naafiri in order to counter Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri usually accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Irelia. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't need 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, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Naafiri versus Irelia build include Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Profane Hydra. When Naafiri used at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better versus Irelia than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Naafiri had an average winrate of 49.8% battling Irelia with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Irelia as Naafiri, Naafiri players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Naafiri vs Irelia battles, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.8% win rate overall.
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