Use Subjugate to soften a powerful enemy tank or to create a target for your team to focus fire.
Trundle excels at fighting within his Frozen Domain. Try to draw enemies onto it.
Chomp is good for lowering the physical damage of enemies; try to focus it on enemy physical damage dealers.
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 shown on this page highlight several significant Trundle against Irelia counter stats that can help you understand the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Trundle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Trundle may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Irelia..
Trundle normally has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Irelia. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Trundle usually wins when taking on Irelia, with a 54.6% win rate. Therefore, Trundle makes a great counter for Irelia.
While Trundle does have a much higher win rate than Irelia, when facing one another, Trundle also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Trundle into Irelia.
Additionally, Trundle has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Trundle vs Irelia matchups, Trundle is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Trundle is a great counter for Irelia. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Trundle against Irelia.
To truly master Trundle in order to counter Irelia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Trundle on average gets a similar amount of CS as Irelia. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Trundle versus Irelia build include Ravenous Hydra, Trinity Force, and Hullbreaker. When Trundle incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better versus Irelia than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Trundle had an average winrate of 54.6% battling Irelia with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Irelia as Trundle, Trundle players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Approach Velocity, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Trundle vs Irelia clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 54.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Irelia as Trundle are given for every ranked division. To scope the statistics and builds to a specific division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.