Save Fear Beyond Death for opponents you know are already too weak to survive. It's especially good for picking off fleeing foes.
Pay attention to your individual leg's cooldowns, as they make for a signficiant portion of your damage
Land Corrosive Charge or Disdain to lock on to target's with Purge - a great way to trigger multiple legs in rapid succession.
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 here show some significant Urgot against Irelia matchup statistics that can help you grasp the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Urgot’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Irelia’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Urgot may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Irelia..
Urgot often has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Irelia. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Urgot usually wins when facing off against Irelia, with a 51.1% win rate. As a result, Urgot makes a good counter to Irelia.
While Urgot does have a higher winrate compared to Irelia, when on opposite teams, Urgot also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Urgot into Ireliaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Urgot has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Urgot vs Irelia matchups, Urgot is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Urgot is a decent counter for Irelia. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Urgot against Irelia.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Urgot to counter Irelia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Urgot usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Irelia. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Urgot versus Irelia build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Thornmail. When Urgot incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better against Irelia than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Urgot boasted an average winrate of 51.1% when countering Irelia with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Irelia as Urgot, Urgot players should use the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Urgot vs Irelia matchups, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.1% winrate overall.
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