Yasuo vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Yasuo
based on 7,215 Yasuo vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yasuo vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Yasuo vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Yasuo
Tips for Playing as Yasuo against Irelia
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
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.
Yasuo vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Yasuo in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some vital Yasuo versus Irelia matchup stats that may help you interpret the distinctions between the two. For instance, Yasuo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Yasuo may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Irelia..
Yasuo normally has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Typically, he takes less damage than Irelia. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Yasuo and Irelia
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Who is Better, Yasuo or Irelia?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Yasuo usually wins when facing off against Irelia, with a 52.6% win rate. Thus, Yasuo makes a good counter for Irelia.
While Yasuo does have a higher win rate compared to Irelia, when they face off with one another, Yasuo also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Yasuo into Ireliaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Yasuo also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Irelia. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Yasuo vs Irelia matchups, Yasuo is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Yasuo is an above average counter to Irelia. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Yasuo against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Yasuo to counter Irelia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yasuo most often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Irelia. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Yasuo versus Irelia build consist of Infinity Edge, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Yasuo included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better against Irelia than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Yasuo boasted an average win rate of 52.6% battling Irelia with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Irelia as Yasuo, Yasuo players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Yasuo vs Irelia clashes, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.6% win rate overall.
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