Tristana vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Tristana
based on 3,301 Tristana vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tristana vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Tristana vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Tristana
Tips for Playing as Tristana against Irelia
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Tristana in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several influential Tristana versus Irelia matchup stats that can help you realize the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Irelia..
Tristana usually has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. On average, she takes less damage than Irelia. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Tristana and Irelia
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Who is Better, Tristana or Irelia?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Tristana usually fairs equally well when playing against Irelia, with a 49.3% win rate. Thus, Tristana makes an ok counter for Irelia.
While Tristana does have a lower winrate compared to Irelia, when on opposite teams, Tristana also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Tristana into Irelia.
Moreover, Tristana also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Tristana is a somewhat poor counter for Irelia. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Tristana against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Tristana to counter Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana typically racks up a similar amount of CS as Irelia. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Tristana versus Irelia build include Guardian Angel, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better countering Irelia than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Tristana boasted an average winrate of 49.3% when playing against Irelia with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Irelia as Tristana, Tristana players should equip the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Tristana vs Irelia counter picks, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.3% win rate overall.
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